The Cost of Haying 

This should be played in every high school to teach economics, math and just plain life.

From a non farmer, non US perspective, this was really interesting

As a barbecue guy, sometimes videos like this are handy to remind me of the total cost involved with getting quality beef for me to cook. Great video, very interesting and well-presented!

I grew up working on a farm. I'm glad I was just a hired hand, and NOT an owner. It was a WONDERFUL time. You TRULY learn to appreciate Gods work.

Thanks for letting us know you are a business man as well as a rancher and Steward of the land!

Drove through Wyoming a few years back and it was endless fields of hay. I had endless questions that you answered with this video. Thank you.

I have an MBA and this guy has SOLID numbers and I swear knows more about BUSINESS and ECONOMICS than most financial people I know. He has EXPERIENCE and hands on operations. I learned a ton from this and his other videos. TYVM for this. If I could ask, do you know the economics of a wheat field?

From a non-farmer, US perspective, this was very interesting. Learn something new everyday.

Not sure how I got here, but I really enjoyed the video. I also want to say that I respect and admire ALL the farmers/ranchers across this great country. Thank you for doing what you do to provide for us!

Love watching your videos it show so much about ranching and where you're food come from thank you and the hard working farmers out there for the food we eat every day

Thanks for all you farmers out there for your hard work!

Love your channel! Very informative answering many of my questions I've always had! Thank you & God bless

Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

Informative video, Mike! Much respect to you and the good folks in Wyoming for the work you guys are doing. Take care and God bless!

Thank you for keeping us feed!

Great voice & delivery! Randomly popped up on my feed so i thought id learn something new!

I dont even own a house lol but I love farming life. Thank you sir for the service and this great information

Definitely showed that y’all are the heart of America. I can’t even imagine. Thank you!!

amazing command of the business, never says uh or hesitates. earrings seem odd. he is just extraordinary with fast and concise command of his subject. he is the best speaker at clear fast information i have ever seen

What a great video! Thank you for the time, effort and info put into this!!!!

Fantastic . Thank you for the excellent explanation.

Great informative video Mike! Much appreciation not only for the time to create and edit your programs, but also for the simplicity of factual costs that perhaps too many people are ignorant of. -Bob...

One of the biggest problems with buying hay is transferring weeds also. Good video!!

Very honest and informative video. Thanks for your time!

I live in a cul-de-sac and am not a farmer but I found this interesting information. Thanks.

Notification Gang!!! Gotta love that bell icon!!! Informative Video Mike!!! 💪🤠

Very insightful and interesting.Thank you!

Thank You very much for your video. It was very informative about what farmers go through.

I appreciate what you do, grew up ranching and farming in South Texas. Understand the struggles, and the rewards of the lifestyle. God Bless you and your family, good quality video, good narrative. Keep up the good work.

Great video, very informative. We have a lot in common here in eastern Oregon. I am "lucky" enough to have irrigation - usually. We can produce a lot more, but our costs are much higher. (Mostly due to the costs of constantly Irrigating.) My favorite alfalfa seed comes from Wyoming.

Very informative / easy to understand and actually interesting! Thanks from So. Oregon

Great videos from your farm. It has really helped me these last weeks learn about the farming business and cattle particularly. Thank you a bunch! I can't wait to start my own

Why am i sooo addicted to this channel hahaha. Los Angeles living but i love the farming life. Good job and keep it up.

Informative breakdown Mike on the costs of hay, thanks

Great video. Nice job presenting the information.

So nicely described. What a gentleman he is. So glad to learn so many things. Thank you from Canada.

Mike, your videos are always super intersting. This information is not readily available to most of us. Thank you so much.

Hey! I remember when you posted that first video on Reddit, I've been following you since day one. I remember when you guys were only getting 60 views for video. Haven't seen any of your videos in a while, but this one popped up in my feed and glad to see your channels doing well.

Another great video Mike! Looking forward to Tuesday!!

Mike, what a wonderful, informative, channel! Reminds me of my childhood! Continued blessings to your family and all you who get dirty every single day rain, shine, sleet or snow!

first time watcher of your channel. Great video. Amazing that wrapping costs more then fuel!

Great video man. We got 20 bales per acre of hay in Ireland this year but you have a lot more acres. Crazy difference! Keep these amazing videos coming 👍

GREAT VIDEO! LEARNED A LOT! THANK YOU!!

Major props to you and yours for the work you do!

Add $2.00 every time the baler door opens for baler depreciation. Like the videos!

Thanks for all the hard work and sacrifice so we can have food on the table!!

Great video and great explanation of some of your costs. It really helps to put things into perspective for your ranch. Thanks for taking the time to work up these numbers and put it out there for all to see. Best wishes always to you, your family and all ranchers & famers across the country.

I have always respected farmers and ranchers for making my life easier. I've even visited Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia, but this video goes far more into the details of what its like than some of Joel's videos. Very informative and l appreciate my steak a little bit more now. Thank you for all your hard work.

This video was recommended by youtube. Definitely didn't disappoint. You got yourself a new subscriber. Btw, I am a landscaper, not a farmer. Keep up the great content!!

With that voice you could do allot of radio and television! During the 180 right? Great content ! And I'm not even a farmer 😎👍🏻 well well ... I must have a good ear for voice, after going back through your vlogs and finding out you already did the corporate radio! Keep up the great family life , thank you

It's great hearing info like this! Thanks for taking the time to makes your videos. Very interesting and informative. God bless!

Mike, I enjoy those old pictures. Your math is simple for folks👍👍. So glad Dave and Nurse Tammy have had the time to help yall out. Yall have a good week.

Nice Video, Good Explaining!!

"Cylinders of wintertime happiness" 😁 lovely !

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for giving that awesome explanation taking time out of your hard working schedule! Worked cattle a few times my younger years so this was great! Thanks to you and people like you, we enjoy food. Well done. Appreciate y’all. GOD bless!

You've got me looking at fields counting the bales as I drive by. Makes me aware how hard you've got it

Great video! Interesting to compare costs of making hay in Lapland Finland.

Thanks for taking us along… Sometimes “pitching a fit” is the best thing to do… even if it is just for a minute of 😡 or 😫. Take a break from it to regroup and reevaluate. Hang in there! It will work out.

Man. After watching your videos it gave me an even deeper appreciation than what I already had for what you do. I’d love to do something along those lines but it’s just not a realistic path for me to take in life. Between my brand bias (champagne tastes on a pbr wallet) and my stubborn ways it wouldn’t be possible for me. Thank you for what you do!

Hey Mike. Add in the cost of picking those bales up in the field and transporting them back to the farm and stacking them. Great job..

I was going to take the plunge and buy the equipment but I think you may have just talked me down off the ledge. I guess I'll keep paying the hay man his steak tax albeit with a much better attitude. Thanks for taking the time to help a rookie.

My grandfather died in 1959. He was a sharecropper in SC tobacco and cotton. He never owned a tractor only used horses and mules. I love watching farms and ranches. First time here. Daddy 92yrs old is blind. He went to war ww11 at 17. I use RU-vid to tell him about how things are out on farms and ranches.

I'm not sure how I backed into this video, but it's honestly one of the best-done costs of business videos I've ever seen. Nice to see someone finally put repair costs in at a realistic amount to the bottom line and not hopes of nothing breaking.

That is a great video! I don’t even farm.

Great video Mike 👍and I agree with you 101%. In my case making hay with worn out equipment which can be a gamble if it decides to brake and keeping an eye on the clouds are my main stress and sometimes wonder would it be easier just to buy in the bales from time to time. Especially the costs of brake downs if not careful could cost way more than the machine is worth.

Thanks for the channel, I love farm videos. Grew up watching some of this stuff

Excellent video,thanks so much.

Business opportunity in Wyoming. Custom Cutter. 🤔

Red clover would help your yeild. it grows in dry harsh environments and is easy to grow. It's relatively cheap to try and once established its self seeding if you get the right variety. Also provides free nitrogen which is a bonus for the other grass.

Great detailed explanation! I love farming and tractors but never grew up around them. I came to this video interested in cost and profit. Very good stuff! Thank you!

Mike this is a great video thanks for taking the effort to make this

Incredible oration of video, great professional sound. Get yourself an agent

Great video Mike....folks don't understand that there is a huge cost associate with bailing, growing and storing hay. Farming is expensive....wish I could send you some hay from our farm buddy.

Hi From New Zealand . Thanks for letting us into your world . Great video

Fascinating information. One hears "rancher," and to a city slicker like me, one believes it's a hard working always prosperous life...I'm learning that is untrue. I truly, truly have learned from your channel. Wishing you no more hail, rain, snow for a while, or breakdowns. Wishing you health, blessings & prosperity this year.

Jonny Cash. Love this channel.its not a bunch of fairytale crap like the rest of the Homestead channels. Real Stuff

Thank you so much for the knowledge

Thanks for the excellent information. I've been looking at these costs myself, and I continue to use the guys that roam the local area cutting hay.

Nice choice of shirt Johnny Cash is a legend!

Very informative. You Sir, are a very good speaker. You kept it interesting and full of information. Thank you for sharing. ......Oh I'm in Australia. You have reached the other side of the planet.

Very educational/informative/beneficial. Thank you.

top video on its kind! very useful! Greetings from Greece! :)

I say to my kid- you can learn math, business and life from a farmer. Kudos to all smart farmers

In Ireland our crops would yield about 10 bales to the acre with 2 to 4 cuttings a year and a Bale of hay would sell for €25

Thanks for the valuable info on haying that really will help me out.

Erin and you are doing all the right things to prosper. As youths my brother and I were volunteered by my grandfather to help on a cousin's farm where we learned about hard work. God bless you.

Thanks for the video, at least you are being realistic or out of the denial stage of what a bale costs to make. I was hog farming here in Canada straw was costing $15 plus for me to buy the straw at $5.50 in the row bale it and haul it home. I needed around a 1000 bales a year I was doing 4500 hogs a year at $16 out the door custom feeding, they provided food in the deal. you can do the math on how many hogs to pay that without the other costs. Like what seemed to be a 500-$1000 entry fee to the Agco or CNH parts counter every time something needed fixing that I repaired being a mechanic to, then i'd payed myself and other running costs. The money for replacement or update bigger equipment wasn't ever going to be there as they wouldn't pay me more per animal. I quit but said i'd still custom bale straw from my sources if guys wanted it for cattle. These goofs think $15 a bales being ripped off. The big problem now is with modern combines and choppers they dust the straw so some you can't bale and you can't see it chopped . Guys figure out the fertilizer cost putting it back and not having to harrow after that they didn't think of before to. Free or cheap straw plus baling costs of $5 is a thing of the past here and bad weather makes demand higher to I struggled some years to get enough. I've already seen $40 CAN a bale wheat straw before harvest advertised last week that will never sell here, Hays starting at $120 now it got to $160 when it was short last year, everybody was out and there is no reserves this year. Some of these guys still need a reality check on the costs and is it worth farming still. I'm not sitting on my tractor baling on 36ft swaths at an average of 10 KPH through the night and working during the day for less than $10 a bale, last year I had 3 days in a row for a few weeks with 9 hours sleep total, that was just plain crazy . Take care.

Wow! You only get one cutting a year? Where I live in NE Indiana, they usually get three, occasionally four cuttings a year. Now I see why that hail storm was so devastating for you. Good luck to you this winter.

Thanks great video, not in the business but very clear well organized information.

Thanks for sharing and have a good day !!

We got 2-3 cuttings per season in Arkansas.

It amazes me how far we've come technologically in just a half century or so. They couldn't handle that much hay without power equipment.

Thank you for your video and for you service to feed us people.

From a non farmer in New Jersey. Thanks for sharing such eye opening information.

Get a copy of Jim Gerrish's book, "Kick The Hay Habit". It'll help you a lot. And you forgot to add in fertilizer cost.

you should rotationally graze your cattle to improve your land. you would grow more per acre.

Great video! I love the breakdown of costs, and can look at my own operation and implement it here! Thank you!

MUCH RESPECT FOR WHAT YOUR DO!

Have you tried Swanson ag net wrap? I used only Vermeer wrap until a guy told me about this wrap, I haven’t had problems with it in my baler. I myself do custom baling. I have talked to a couple of other custom bakers that run John Deere balers and they like the Swanson wrap also. Just a thought.