Buying and Baling Hay!

[@dainwilliams4265]

Hey guys thanks for inviting us into your world of farming. I truly appreciate the time and effort you all put into making those videos. 👍🤜

[@CraigArbet]

It was nice hearing you and your dad's take on buying hay versus fertilizing existing hay ground that you rent.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

One can never have too much hay. Dad always had at least a thousand extra bales to sell. It was a very dry year in 1976/1977, we hand broadcast 4year old clover seed in a swamp and it grew to almost waist high. We got almost 1000 small bales on 4 acres in 2 cuttings. The neighbors were really looking. Dad taught us well.

[@mikebrown1188]

Love the smile on your brothers face when Dad said he bought lunch. You guys are a great teachers of farming and common sense.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Don't have any information on hay prices, but I do like your dad's comment about the wasteful lawn mowing. Here in Michigan we have farm land sold as building sites. I think that a lot of them are to people from towns/cities who want the country experience, but they park the house in the middle and then buy big lawn mowers and spend hours mowing all of the grass down. My husband is getting tired of me complaining about the "I call it stupidity" to use up good farm land and then to turn it into a large city lot. My brother and sister have 5 acre places, but rent out the back areas to farmers who make hay from them. My dad would be proud. Thanks for another great video! Hope we all get some significant rain soon while the corn can still use it.

[@paulweston2326]

Here in the UK i made 20 four foot round bales from 6 acres which has never had any fertiliser for over 30 years, nice organic hay, ive sold it for £18 a bale which is approx 21 US dollars

[@MartinP1214]

Nice to see you making use of all the natural resources that are available.

[@karolschulz48]

I just love watching the little bits. Scraping and liming the driveway. Oh the memories of doing that especially with a full bag of lime. And starting the Oliver that was our brand, I miss driving them.

[@martina.heglund8470]

Thank you for your videos I really like listening to your father talk about the old days and I wish your videos were a little bit longer thank you God bless have a great day

[@wonderwhyfarmhomestead793]

I could listen to your dad talk farming all dat everyday! You as well! You guys are awesome! Keep them coming, 👍🏻

[@MillyRue]

I think you were driving on the only straight road in Wisconsin!!! Lol.. we go up to see our kid near fort mccoy and boy ohhh boy some of the roads are full of turns!!! But the scenery makes up for it.. absolutely gorgeous!!

[@33pearlqueen]

George is very profound, and sounds like a farmer from the Depression era. In these times of crazy inflation and rising interest rates, you make the most of what you have. It’s smart! Employing resourcefulness is always a good practice in farming, and especially now. Love your videos!

[@doncc6080]

Enjoy watching a father and his sons working a small farm carrying on the heritage. God bless you!!!

[@danvanninhuys745]

That little bit of hay from the field will make your dairy cattle very happy in the middle of the cold winter. Great job to all of you.

[@newyorkfarmer146]

Watching your videos remind me of farming here at home , being real caretakers to the ground and observing options and your “insurance” we always did the same kinda think with bulls when we switched to beef we switch out bulls after a few months and figure that was insurance to make sure every cow was bred for the following spring even has a clean up bull when we had the dairy herd to insure we’d get cows bred , had 52 mothers and we’d have 52 calves on the ground from the end of April til July and haying we start mowing the last week in may get the first cut off the home farm then start traveling around the second week in June … you guys are the last of the true dairymen to get crops in on time and run a beautiful place as you have and a nice herd a cows that are well cared for , for me in New York to watch this and seeing all of the true dairymen retire and sell out brings me back in time a bit

[@stephenrice4554]

I look on hay as an insurance , you can't have too much if you've got stock to feed . Like if a pheasant , rabbit or deer accidentally falls down in front of you it's amazing how well they fit in the freezer , feeds the kids , mum and yourself . Great video , like that small field you used to play in . 👍🇬🇧

[@TheGhostHAG]

Backbone of this great country right here, you guys are great

[@whosranch]

Glad to see all of you wearing your seat belts.

[@leandalynch975]

cool lovely you guys and mum get on so well together god bless from nz

[@jerryfischer3988]

Another great video. Your dad just like my dad. Treated us boys to dinner, was always a big deal.

[@kevinanderson89]

Dry here in Nebraska. Grass hay$110 for 1500lb round grass bales. Alfalfa hard to find. Less than 2 inches of rain since Memorial day.

[@patricklusk5237]

It’s good to have surplus feed in store for winter as we say over here your better looking at it than looking for it

[@paulwasserman97]

You guys really run a tight nit family operation it’s wonderful to see and your area there is beautiful. Iam in NW Ohio all flat here. Thanks for the great videos.Pops is a smart man and a great teacher to you his sons.👍👍

[@eugenespreutels8305]

Glad you are able to find some quality hay. There is a serious shortage around here after a 10 week drought and hundred degree heat. Luckily, August has been unseasonably wet and we have been able to get the grass growing again and are putting up 2nd cutting right now. We are selling alfalfa small square bales for $9 a bale, we are buying 4x5 round bales of grass hay that go for about $50.

[@grovewalker8432]

Great videos! What I like is the good logic expressed in making decisions. That is why your farming operation is more successful than others.

[@jonway7845]

I have to agree with your perspective, use the resources you have available. 100 years ago it was done the same way, especially through the Great Depression.

[@br927]

When I was a kid, I'd go with my Dad and he would stop and get ice cream! I'v taken loads of hay out of places like that with 2 770 Oliver Diesels, one chained to another! There's a story behind that!!

[@johnhenderson299]

Great video

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thanks for the short trip. Never a dull moment 😆👍

[@taylavlogsthetas4784]

I paid $135 a ton for mostly brome in South Central Pennsylvania. I feed hay for 90 days or less, and graze for 9 months or more. Beef cattle, replacement heifers, and grass finished steers together as a mob.

[@lymanharrold166]

Sit down before reading this. As you may know, we have been in a drought in Central Texas and there has been no hay grown locally. Most everything is being trucked in from, OK, NM or AR. Prices are extremely high. A 1,000 to 1,200 lb round bale sells for $200 and up.

[@dakotakid1447]

I feel for you guys down there. Up here in ND 800lb squrare bqles were selling for $180 /bale last year. Last year was the dryest year ive seen and this year is the best hay year ive ever had. How much are small square bringing this year? I sold a couple truck loads down to Texas about 5 or 6 years ago when they had a drought

[@dalemayes3854]

Always enjoy your videos

[@windrowfarm]

Thanks for your thoughtful videos! Having our share of a crazy year in New England. First cut small squares landed around $6.50-$7/bale. Second cut is at or below half yield at this point (often less). I’m nudging the tail end of second cut up to $10/bale to try to even make it worthwhile. Crazy. Anyway, thanks for sharing!

[@mbury8004]

Again a nice video ! Regards from germany

[@randyvilleneuve4907]

Square bales in VA range from $5 to $10 per bale for Mixed orchard, Timothy, and fescue grass. Round 4x5 bales are around $35-$45 per bale. I used to 100% square bale but the heat got to me and ended up in the hospital with heat exhaustion. I round bale 100% now, net wrap 4x5 bales or sometime my neighbor bales my hay so I sell it by the bale to them for $15 for a 5x6 bale. You can dry hay in VA but in NY we spent most days looking up to clouds so we went to chopping 90% of the hay.

[@petealberda6307]

It’s been a dry summer here. One 25 acre field gave us 140 4 by 5 round bales but only 20 second cut. We sold 60 for $60 because it had a lot of volunteer wheat in the bales. We get $5 off the field and $6 out of the barn for good size small squares first cut. Alfalfa grass mix.

[@jefffirefighter12106]

Is that a different field of oats or are the videos out of order? Just wondering? You do a great job showing everyone your farming operation. Keep up the good work!

[@5jkratz]

Great set of videos thus far, keep up the great work it is informative and "real life" interaction with the family and us viewers. I wonder how many total areas on your farm? Saw a video of the other house you now live in which is 30 miles away, are you renting or do you have plans for that farm to be repaired and utilized? Seems as though your father has great experience and hope you can take over as he backs down from "chief engineer". My cousins took over from their dad but now the next generation is not wanting to farm and they are trying to partner with others to keep it going, bit of a problem when generations don't follow the "calling" . Keep up the great work, am rooting for all of you!!!!!!!!!

[@chrisray6536]

Small square bales are 4.50 to 5.00 a bale and round bales 60 to 80 dollars a piece in central NY. Good video.

[@drknockers5716]

Really enjoy your videos

[@tomvandenbergh4127]

Not much dairy quality hay grown here in south Central Illinois, but I buy some hay from a neighbor and pay a dollar per point of rfv. All his hay this summer running between 120 to 170 rfv, so it's $120 to $170/ ton delivered in 3x4 big squares.

[@taylorkueppers8595]

always learn something when watching thanks😄

[@johnperry5102]

great farming video very practical great presentation, really enjoyed it where I live in Massachusetts its 9 dollars a bale

[@patricklusk5237]

Not sure about hay prices we don’t really make much hay in Northern Ireland but round bale grass silage is about £25 /bale well up in price this year because of the big rise in fuel and fertiliser prices

[@MrBroomy]

Surprised you didn't rake the wind rows together for the baler.

[@pagrainfarmer]

Better to have too much and not need it than to need it and not have it. Nice the way you reclaimed that land and started getting a crop off of it. In terms of hay prices here in western PA, my experience is with small square bales, because that's what I make and sell. Right now, hay is going anywhere from $3.00 to $6.00 per bale. At the lower end would be lower quality hay or last year's hay. For the most part, decent small squares are going from $4 to $5.

[@theburnhams2925]

A good example of "Waste not, want not." You didn't get much off of that little field, but mowing/raking improves the stand slowly-but-surely. If you could mow it and leave the clippings there once or twice per season it would improve the grass even more by fertilizing and adding a measure of protection against erosion and frost. Hay has been relatively expensive here this year due to a couple of reasons, not least being the high cost of diesel! That and it has been an exceptionally "wet" summer here in the Fl "panhandle." Grass hay 4X5's selling for upwards of $40.00. Perennial peanut (small) square bales upwards of $15.00 (which pretty much limits it to horse feed as horse owners don't seem to care how much their feed costs...) Rain is a mixed blessing---good for growing, not so good for harvesting.... but I pity those in the S.W. dependent upon the Colorado River!!! Always enjoy your videos, thanks for making them!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Very interesting content men 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@newtsfarm]

I know what you mean about the camera not really showing how steep a hill is. The guy that's gonna do second crop on my place told me he's getting $6.00 a bale. That's bassically "horse hay" because horse people generally prefer square bales and they want good quality hay. I'm in northeast Ohio. By the way I'm really enjoying your channel.

[@fernandohenriqueferreirahe8756]

Hello good morning 🇧🇷🇺🇸🚜🤛🤜🤛🙌

[@masescranton9630]

Here in New England 4 x 5 round dependent on quality around $ 80.00. Small square 50lbs $ 7.00 - $ 8.00

[@petercahill3859]

20k subscribers soon!

[@marklen2322]

I was able to pickup 4X5 round bales grass hay for $45 and feel lucky Pretty dry over here in Northfield MN

[@robertenglebrecht668]

Noticed the set of cow horns over the barn door. 😂 Curious on your analysis when purchasing hay, such as protein %, energy, ADF, NDF etc. do you tend to look for?

[@robertburden1509]

And I'm sry I haven't shot a comment on other videos lately I just been busy myself but I'm sure they are great

[@billyeuerle3307]

Love the videos! Every one of them! I milked cows until a few years ago and went broke. Didn't grow up on a farm but worked as hard as i could to get going only to pretty much be out of it. Milked 80 cows and farmed very much the way you guys do. Still trying to find contentment without my girls!:( Thank you for all the great content. Hope you don't mind me asking, just curious do you farm full time with your dad and live near by or plan to take over from your parents? I just always find it fascinating! So happy to see a small farm like yours going strong! God bless! Oh and hay here is right now about$1.10-$1.25 a point depending on the quality.

[@trentonromig967]

Here in Pennsylvania a good small square bale is 6.50 to 8.50

[@jakefromohio6256]

I'm selling 1st cut hay for 4 and 5 bucks a small square in eastern Ohio, but it has been so wet I haven't made a square bale since memorial day.

[@williammatzek4660]

A couple months ago small prairie hay bales $5.00 each.

[@mrt4547]

Did you ever think of chopping your rye cover crop and then planting corn for extra forage? I arm near Dyersville Iowa and they have supposedly the largest weekly hay auction in the country. Hay prices are down this year. Big squares are mostly $140-$160 per ton and round bales $110-$140.

[@mikeburgan7675]

Nice

[@richardwilkens4577]

I usually put up between 4000 and 5000 small square bales and sell around 2000 of them

[@DirtRoadLanding]

Great Vide!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Blackwellll3066]

I do think it be interesting to see how many small squares them big square bales would make if ya put them though a rebaler system....

[@robertburden1509]

Looks nice is it sprayed with hay preserver or some call it acid it makes nice hay but can be hard on a bailer

[@clydo1946]

As my Dad used to say, “it’s better than a snowbank”.

[@mikebrown1188]

Snowballs in January

[@calvary1808farm]

How many bales did you pull off that 3 acres?

[@southtexashay777]

We do great hay, we Fertilize with 200 lbs. of Urea and flood irrigate. We never have weeds or trash in our hay operation. Take a look sometime. You guys have a great weekend.

[@robertburden1509]

Your dad really reminds me of my great grandma she didn't want anything and didn't like to see wast

[@billcindlejr2300]

I am from Ohio! We had a very wet year for making hay been struggling all year for three or four days in a row for hay to dry! Last year after January good premium quality third and second cutting alfalfa went from seven dollars for a square bail to under four dollars! And a 4 x 5 round bail was bringing for the same quality hay $70-$80 a bale dropped to almost $35 maybe 40 at the top it and still has not come back up in price with the price of fuel and fertilizer it’s not very profitable right now in this part of the country!

[@rohrfarms]

Our 2nd cut grass hay out of our barn is going for 8/bale and can't keep any it's going so quick

[@verdagarner5112]

Hay in western Idaho this is going from 250.00 to 350.00 a ton. If you can find it.

[@jamesbreault5762]

I think alfalfa 200 lb bail is around 12 to16 dollars a bale

[@krissyb1980]

Why don't you guys have a big baler, just curious? I haven't known anyone who just has small square bales for probably 30 years. I knew some folks who square baled all their hay back in the 90s. There is definitely less waste in small bales and they are nice to have in the winter but they are work to put up and some of us are to old for that haha.

[@davelively1901]

".....it's still a crop". We always say: "It beats snowballs". Raised sell price on 4.5' x 4' round bales to $60...2nd cut to $75....$1,200/ton for 30-10-10, diesel $6/g. Near drought conditions justify price, given supply & demand, imho.

[@daviddickson4707]

Great videos, you like you are related to TJ Watt.

[@Travis_Rivers]

Jeez I think around Vermont for good quality milk cow feed its around 4 or 5 bucks a small square not sure about round bales and we don't see the big big squares much around here atleast not for sale

[@sethpoffenbarger3919]

South Central Iowa 5×6 rounds second cutting alfalfa 130 to 160 a bail grass hat 60 - 100

[@adamsteen3682]

we sell 4x5 round bales of texas tuff bermuda for $90 per bale - it is clean we use rezilon and heavily fertilize (North Mississippi)

[@johncherryjr1833]

What is the mixer that you use in the mixing of corn for feeding the cows. Thank you John & Linda. We just purchased a 500 acre's daily farm

[@robertpayne2717]

Have you ever ground and mixed lower quality hay for feed. Say with shelled corn or other grain ?

[@notbuyingit5698]

End of July? Whoa, got some catching up to do on the videos, eh?

[@almillar6752]

Those bales are very light , do they have to be so as that catapult can throw them ?

[@johnhatt1219]

You will probably laugh at me for saying I would love to show up and give you a hand in the hay miss doing that so much

[@hankelrod7315]

You can’t have too much hay. I always try to keep at least 1 extra year worth of hay around. We feed about 2000 RB/year & in good years we buy & stock up for the lean years. Ppl know we are always buying & if they pick up damp hay that can’t do anything with we will buy at discount & in-line wrap it or feed it right away. Buying hay is cheaper than buying fertilizer, especially if you feed it on frozen corn stalk ground so you aren’t handling manure

[@mnfirefighter813]

How many square bales do you make each summer?

[@dermotward6540]

19k followers 😁😁😁😁

[@tonybunch543]

👌

[@colorado1088]

The genetic contribution of having male offspring (like you have) is of great value. A farmer friend once told me he didn't do that well until his boys grew up.

[@kevinhelgerson982]

This is probably a repeat question. I see a international in the shed.

[@richardwilkens4577]

I'm getting $8 per small square bales for good grass hay

[@hankelrod7315]

Never see the 1066 being used???

[@johnhatt1219]

Something is better than nothing

[@r.scotthill3082]

When are we going to meet the female side of this operation? That hay that you bought do you ever ask for any lab results on the nutritional stats and RFV or RFQ?

[@fullers1966]

The video wasn't that long enjoy watching

[@geraldsundberg3610]

$ 85 4x5 fd.

[@timstevens2866]

Money in the bank

[@rebelgaming7718]

You can never have enough hay for feed man been there done that for a guy I was helping kinda of an idiot farmer if you want my opinion he was an idiot he would run out of hay on purpose and always wondered why his cows looked like shit from not having feed yes he had plenty of grass but cows also need hay to survive and thrive

[@davidandrews2306]

$10.00 B N.Y