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<blockquote data-quote="ARlife4me" data-source="post: 3053041" data-attributes="member: 105694"><p>With the cost of NG going up (at the time) which makes liquid fertilizer go up, plastic costing more and in turn makes net wrap more. Then the cost of red diesel outrageous it doesn't take long for base cost to be 15-20 $ a round bale. That usually gets trippled? I base price on production. The more I produce, the lower the cost per bale. On a normal year I can make 12 (63×60") bales per acre (sudan). 220 acres equates to 2,640 bales. When I did alfalfa I could make 50-60 (14×18×36") bales per acre and sold them for $5/per. It takes an immense amount of time for alfalfa (swath, rake, turn, bale and stack both ways). A long time alfalfa producer told "it's for people that don't have a family, because it takes too much time away from being with them". I've had 60 hour work days snd ate once during that time. Doing 120 acres by myself gets exhausting. I'd do anything to get to work like that again! Pain rules my life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARlife4me, post: 3053041, member: 105694"] With the cost of NG going up (at the time) which makes liquid fertilizer go up, plastic costing more and in turn makes net wrap more. Then the cost of red diesel outrageous it doesn't take long for base cost to be 15-20 $ a round bale. That usually gets trippled? I base price on production. The more I produce, the lower the cost per bale. On a normal year I can make 12 (63×60") bales per acre (sudan). 220 acres equates to 2,640 bales. When I did alfalfa I could make 50-60 (14×18×36") bales per acre and sold them for $5/per. It takes an immense amount of time for alfalfa (swath, rake, turn, bale and stack both ways). A long time alfalfa producer told "it's for people that don't have a family, because it takes too much time away from being with them". I've had 60 hour work days snd ate once during that time. Doing 120 acres by myself gets exhausting. I'd do anything to get to work like that again! Pain rules my life. [/QUOTE]
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