True Cost of Baling Hay

Ranchers know baling hay is expensive, however some ranchers still sell their hay for remarkably low prices.  Throughout this article, I will refer to hay balers/sellers as ranchers.  To produce a bale of hay, there are variable cost and fixed cost.  Hay that is sold cheap only takes the variable cost in consideration.  Let me back up some.  Fuel, net, wire, labor, fertilizer, and herbicide are variable costs.  As we all know, not all hay is fertilized and sprayed, thus some cheap hay does not have that added variable costs.

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True Cost of Ranching

Ranchers know their choice of livelihood may not be an easy life filled with weekly paychecks, Christmas bonuses, unlimited labor and financial resources, but ranchers choose that live because that is the life for them.  Ranchers would be bored to death living in a subdivision.  Where would they park all of their trailers?  Ranchers know there are many benefits to ranching for a living, but the real beauty of ranching is freedom of choice. 

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