Sounds very familiar here at home. Obviously, we're just a family farm so, our numbers are different, but the effects are just as real.
Anticipating a bad hay year, we sold off our entire beef herd last fall. I sooooo hated to do that, but as Dave has pointed out several times this year, it was the right thing to do, as we were only able to pull off a small amount of rye for hay. Daisy and Frank have done pretty good, although we're feeding hay and corn stalks (which they LOVE, and we might as well since we certainly weren't going to get corn). I don't know how much he spent, but we estimate that our neighbor is in at least $5,000 already in hay. The bales are small, and not high quality.
Based on that article, I'm anxious to at least get back in with a couple of beef-ers.
The fires have been horrible. I really feel for all of those who have lost so much.
