Coastal hay with some Bluestem mix
Horse cut
5 x 5.5 round bales, net – $100
Small 50# square bales, twine – $10
2023 Hay Square Bales
Our inventory is almost gone. 2022 and 2023 were hot and dry. Hay inventories suffered. Hopefully 2024 will bring lots of grass for us all here in central Texas.
2023 Square Bales
We have a fresh crop of 2023 coastal mix square bales available for $10 each.
We will load your truck or trailer.
Some video from our sale last summer.
Cattle Pens
2020 Calf Crop
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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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.Â
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