Nationwide Hay Buyers, Sellers Together In List
ANDY ANDREWS last year. If Pennsylvania had been
I flnrasfw Fanning Staff involved in a larger hay marketing
MADISON, Wis.—An attempt network, then animal producers
to develop a hay marketing net- who needed hay could have
work across the dairy states in the located hay sources more easily.”
midwest and eastern U.S. is catch- Hall said the hay network would
ing on with farms in Pennsylvania, also help Pennsylvania hay pro-
Called the Great Lakes Haylist ducers when they have good
the marketing network is a result of weather and other states when they
the lack of hay in Pennsylvania endure a drought,
because of last year’s drought Specifically, the hay database
“In general, Pennsylvania and will provide information on how to
surrounding states had a drought sell buy various types of hay.
and produced inadequate amounts Jo list, each lot of hay must be
of hay, ’ * said Marvin H. Hall, for- identified (alfafa, alfalfa/grass, red
age specialist at Penn State. clover, grass, straw, or others), the
“Having a haylist for only Pen- quantity (in price per ton or bales),
nsylvania didn’t help much, end the form (small square,
because no one had hay.” said medium square, large square bale.
Hall. ‘ ‘However, some of the mid- large round bale, or other). Storage
west states had surpluses of hay includes under roof, outside cov-
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