kansas hay

helped a friend of mine load four semi's yesterday with round bales of hay going to Kansas, thirty two bales a load, he gave them the hay trucks came from up north in ohio [millersburg] everything was donated drivers and trucks...there was no one show up to take pictures or interview the farmer or the drivers guess it wasent that important...?.two trucks were new with air ride on truck, driver could tell how much weight he had on by the pressure in the air bags I though that was pretty cool, don't have that on my trucks but they are 2015 models

Stonerock, those scales have been available aftermarket for a long time. guys that haul max weight loads use them to get their loads distributed over the axles properly. Ten years ago guys that hauled my lime in had them.

I haul concrete wall blocks and pavers; scales on the tractor and trailer are critical when a pallet being a couple feet forward or back can
make the difference of an overweight ticket.

(quoted from post at 02:07:03 04/26/19) helped a friend of mine load four semi's yesterday with round bales of hay going to Kansas, thirty two bales a load, he gave them the hay trucks came from up north in ohio [millersburg] everything was donated drivers and trucks...there was no one show up to take pictures or interview the farmer or the drivers guess it wasent that important...?.two trucks were new with air ride on truck, driver could tell how much weight he had on by the pressure in the air bags I though that was pretty cool, don't have that on my trucks but they are 2015 models

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Why should anyone show up to take pictures or interview anyone? This has been going on for years so really isn't news worthy. If it was a once in a lifetime event? Or responding to a terrible disaster affecting millions? Yea it would be in the news.

3 loads of hay going to a guy who owns cattle worth a considerable amount of money and owns land that's worth even more? How is that newsworthy to a blue collar worker living in an apartment with an older car and a flat screen TV? Perceptions. What that person on welfare sees, or that blue collar worker sees is someone who owns hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of assets getting handouts from others who own hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in assets. Trust me. It isn't doing the farmer any good for the city dweller to see this stuff. It actually hurts you. Farmers make up less than 1% of the population today. They own land, houses, out buildings, livestock and equipment. Watch the news. No, not the local news. Watch the national news. When they air something farm related it's always the big guys with the big nice houses, 80,000 dollar pickups and 300,000 dollar tractors. And in the course of the story you can bet they are going to get nice shots of the house, truck and equipment. You really think that's lost on the viewers?

Rick

OK I will bite. Why is anyone donating hay to anyone in Kansas?

There was a full length segment on the daily market report on RFDTV today. This was donated hay originating in TN and headed to NB.
Loren

48 case VAI made a mistake the hay is going to Nebraska, sorry about that at least you are paying atten

I also haul masonry products. Its amazing the difference a couple inches make

I know a rancher that won't accept hay from outside his area because of the weed seeds in it, he said he learned that the hard way. Most folks sell their worst hay, that even applies to hay that is given away. If you have certified weed free hay, there is a market for it.

(quoted from post at 20:03:09 04/26/19) I know a rancher that won't accept hay from outside his area because of the weed seeds in it, he said he learned that the hard way. Most folks sell their worst hay, that even applies to hay that is given away. If you have certified weed free hay, there is a market for it.

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Anybody who insists on weed free hay or straw has never done a spring seeding.

Haven't seen the flood pictures, have you?
Any hay a lot of guys had floated away last
month. Fields along the rivers gone, or
covered in 6 feet or more of sand. They're
talking mid-summer before highway 2 reopens
across the Missouri. But like the fires a
few years ago, it doesn't get but a few
minutes of coverage.

I never heard the final numbers on how much
of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and
Nebraska burned that spring, but the last
numbers I heard, was equivalent to a 2 mile
wide swath from the Grand Canyon to
Indianapolis.