Last year we didn't get to cut the hay on our little ranch between Hearne and Franklin , Texas and I won't go into the reason's why ...but this week we finally were able to get a cutting. Yea! There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh hay when they just cut it and it is laying on the ground drying out waiting to be baled.
Aparently we and most of our neighbors took advantage of the hot dry weather to cut hay in our area this week. Today we saw lots of trailers passing with both round bales and square bales on board. With the cost of diesel plus increased fertilizer costs, hay will most likely go up in price this year. Where it goes is anybody's guess.
Hay is very important to ranchers in the Brazos Valley Area. I can remember a time when it was like gold and they were shipping it in from out of state. If I am not mistaken it reached between $75 and $100 a round bale. Hope it doesn't get that high though. Texas and the country certainly don't need more radical consumer price increases.
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