You might know the answer to my question in post 3. Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?
Last year in Tennessee: In Sumner County, just northeast of Nashville, the county commissioners voted recently to spend $100,000 to pay for transportation of hay from the Midwest. In Dickson County, another rural county near Nashville, commissioners approved spending $50,000 to help farmers. The Knox County Commission in Knoxville and the local Farm Bureau each put up $10,000 to pay for hay to be trucked in from Canada. http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:RPUgsI0Ab3AJ:www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/23/facing-drought-tennessee-farmers-importing-hay-cul/+hay+drought+1992&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a
“Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?”
It’s not out of the question, no. But it is on the long side.
“Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?”
It’s not out of the question, no. But it is on the long side.
. Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?
I can’t answer specifically for this period and the ranchers prospects. But Texas has gone through some fairly severe droughts in which hay was at a premium if you could find any.
DROUGHT RETURNS TO TEXAS AGRICULTURE, RESULTING IN $316 MILLION IN LOSSES [2002]
http://newagnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/DRGHT/Jun1202a.htm