Hay Delivery

A neighbor called a couple of weeks ago and said that he wanted to buy some hay.  I have a large hoop building that I store my hay in, and it works great, but I when I load the hay I enter on the east side and load it west to east. Then I sell the hay from east to west with my last cutting going out first until I reach my first cutting which is the last cutting to go out the door.  For those with experience in inventory/production, I follow the last in first out (LIFO) method, not because of any financial inventory valuation planning, but rather when you are filling a tube from one side and have to empty the tube from the same side, it just ends up that way.  The reason I say all of that is because when my neighbor called for hay I was into a cutting that was put up with a little too much moisture and it was dusty and could have mold spots in it.  Since he has bred cows and I've heard that cows can abort from hay mold, I suggested he wait until the following week when I had moved into hay that I know would have no mold dust in it.   He said no problem so I delivered him hay this week.  He said he'd take all of the hay that I had which was great!  I cut him a good deal and he would be getting some of my best hay at a really good price.  I weighed up the first load and delivered it and went for the second.  The second load was mostly third cutting and a couple of the first.  When I got down to his place to have him unload, I warned him that the bales on the top of the load were really heavy, and wouldn't you know that his tractor wouldn't pick them off.  Those bales are all my Bobcat can handle so I know that they are up near a ton per bale.  So back down the road I went to put the top bales back into the hoop building.  After getting my truck and trailer stuck in the snow on our farm and pulling it out with the tractor, I finished up the delivery.  I have about 20 bales of hay left to sell.  They should be super high protein and very leafy.  The last load of hay should be a good seller, but the buyer will need to be careful to have a large tractor/loader or a big skidloader to be able to move them around.