[Nathan Zachary]

"Hay and alfalfa prices are through the roof because those fields have been tilled up to plant more corn and soybeans."

BS Alfalfa don't grow where corn grows, and corn don't grow where alfalfa grows.

Hay and alfalfa prices are through the roof because:
A) the price of fuel tripled,
B) the price of fertilizer tripled

NOT because commodity prices for a TON of feed corn went up $3/ton

[Beagle8U]

“BS Alfalfa don’t grow where corn grows, and corn don’t grow where alfalfa grows.”

I’m done with this thread. Its obvious that you don’t know your a$$ from a grape on this subject!

[rellimpank]

--I can attest to having plowed under several thousand acres of cornstalks in preparation for planting oats as a cover crop for two years of alfalfa, the alfalfa being planted along with the oats--

-( this was fifty-some years ago and my dad didn't have a wheat allotment, part of the "New Deal")--

[cornfedcowboy]

Don’t forget that corn and food prices went through the roof about nine months ago because:
1.Weak dollar-China was buying all the grain they could get their hands on due to the exchange rate.
2.Fuel prices-at $130/barrell every input cost from fuel to fertilizer increased everyone costs.

Simply put, it was a “perfect storm” for high prices on everything ag and energy related components.

And another thing, nobody talks about the wealth that actually stays here in or own country rather than the Saudi families getting money for the energy we consume.

Ethanol is not perfect, but it sure isn’t as bad as some would like you to believe.