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THE OTHER DAY Thomas Taylor told me he had come up with a way to stretch his hay until time to turn out on grass. He simply put a pair of green sunglasses on each of his cows. They are now contently grazing broomsedge.
I immediately called all the livestock supply stores within a five county radius. Sorry, there has been such a demand they are all sold out. New shipments of sunglasses are not expected until next spring. So, if your hay supply is short, looks to me like you have three alternatives. Sell cows, Buy hay, Buy corn.
Let’s assume you don’t want to sell cows. That narrows your decision to buy hay or buy corn. Gordon Thornhill and Doug Smoot helped me work out the following example. Substitute your own figures. This may help you decide what to do.
Situation: Farmer has 50 brood cows with young calves at side. Cows weigh about 1,000 pounds. Seventy-five days until he can turn out on grass. Enough hay on hand to feed cows 35 to 40 days. Good quality grass hay shipped from Pennsylvania $100 per ton. Corn, rolled and bagged $6.80 per hundred. One pound of corn will replace two pounds of hay.
Ration No. 1 Buy Hay
30 lbs. of hay / cow / day
Cost $1.50 per / cow / day
93.4%