16,000 bales in one day
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Topic: 16,000 bales in one day
Posted By: AC7060IL
Subject: 16,000 bales in one day
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 8:31am
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It’s a cold January day, so here’s a warm t-shirt July 19 minute video of Timothy/Alfalfa Haying by Miller Farms Custom, LLC, Valley City, Ohio. They run some AGCO equipment, so I think it qualifies for this AC equipment forum? Enjoy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKa14ZGOGdA" rel="nofollow - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKa14ZGOGdA |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 9:21am
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man that IS impressive, though the guy talks fast with a funny accent ! Getting that man guys and equipment working as a team is NEAT to see. Kinda didn't hear how many small bales got bound into one BIG bale though. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: NEVER green
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 3:07pm
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Must have got rained on, pretty bleached brown. ------------- 2-8050 1-7080 6080 D-19 modelE & A 7040 R50 |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 3:58pm
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63 bales are in one Bale Baron Bundle. Roughly 45 lbs per bale, so bundle weighs appropriately 2835 lbs? Update: I’m guessing the 63 mentioned in the video was perhaps 3 combined 21 packs? Here’s a weblink to a Bale Baron sales brochure? Not promoting it, just interesting. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5317684ee4b04f773bf938eb/t/5894cbe1f7e0ab29a18252fc/1486146546952/Bale_Baron_Brochure.pdf" rel="nofollow - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5317684ee4b04f773bf938eb/t/5894cbe1f7e0ab29a18252fc/1486146546952/Bale_Baron_Brochure.pdf |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 7:27pm
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I’ve been watching their videos for a few years now, they are impressive. Started out Deere but mostly Massey now for their hay operation. See some hay equipment that I’ve never seen before. They are on the cutting edge in hay making. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: calico190xt68
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 8:36pm
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Thanks for sharing. I like looking at summer hay pics in the dead of winter. :-) That hay is a little too brown for me but he kept saying it was a good color. Maybe the camera wasn't adjusted. It did look a little greener in the barn. To have that kind of investment in hay equipment alone is beyond belief here in the midwest. 7 (pretty new) tractors, 7 Balers, 4 bale barons, multiple telehandlers, semis, flatbed trailers, lots of help, diesel fuel, land rent or ownership, new big barns, etc.. They have to be making good money. You don't buy that much stuff and loose your butt each year. I do think hay is far more predictable income than row crops. You aren't susceptible to international trade markets. I also have to believe they are trucking that hay outside of ohio. I may have to go watch their other videos to see if they mention their market. 16,000 is just one hay field and first cutting. I wonder what they make per year? They got about 128 bales per acre and it did look thick, so that is a good yield. Wish I had just one bale baron and one telehandler. :-) ------------- 80 7010, 80 7020. 67 190XTD Series I w/500 Loader, AC 2000 Plow, AC 4 row Planter, AC 77G Rake, Member Indiana A-C Partners, Member TAC |
Posted By: jvin248
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 9:33pm
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. Wish I knew about Bale accumulators back on the old farm. Even the self built dozen drag packs or three at a time off the baler. Hay business is not a greener business when you are "over the fence" than crops. Still market dynamics outside your control. Thin margins. Hay is better than the firewood business though. My father got in the niche of supplying all the homebuilders from small to national scale companies. Erosion control and basement cement cover, they like to pour basements in January. When he finally retired the prices jumped a couple dollars per bale by all the replacement suppliers to his old customers. They missed him. I remember huddling with him under a wagon stacked with a hundred bales of good horse hay caught in a violent lightning storm hoping we didn't get lit up. We survived but some horse hay went to the builders. . |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 10:22pm
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Good quality orchard grass fetches $12/bale delivered locally. Have no idea what it is in Ohio. I read a zoo in FL pays $25/square bale trucked in from several states away. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:21am
| I bet Capt gets a good penny selling to the horse people in Connecticut. Second cutting here at the feed store is 8 dollars a bale, first is 6 |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 6:36am
We are selling hay out of our barn for $7/ bale. 40 lb. Believe it or not, the demand was not good this year. 2023 was great because we had a lot of rain and it was tough to find a few day gap of dry weather.
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Posted By: calico190xt68
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 1:03pm
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I watched another one of their videos and they mentioned they are trucking some of the hay to Florida. I heard some of the horse buyers are paying $20+ in Florida. Trucking isn't cheap though. ------------- 80 7010, 80 7020. 67 190XTD Series I w/500 Loader, AC 2000 Plow, AC 4 row Planter, AC 77G Rake, Member Indiana A-C Partners, Member TAC |