Hmm $100 a roll? I'll sell everything I have!!
Better think again, that's delivered.......the math don't work out too good, unless it's just a short jaunt, truckers like it tho.
But furthermore, it brings up an interesting delimma and one worth serious pondering.....
I couldn't make all the hay I normally could because of aforementioned drought, I was more fortunate than others farther west and north, but I managed to have a decent crop. At this point in the hay season my barns are usually full with little hay being sold until Jan/feb/mar/apr......my barns are at less than half and it's not even the middle of December. The demand has been unbelievable as we are probably closest to the drought affected area being only 25 miles from the impacted drought areas. I get at least three calls a day from folk up north needing hay. So do I sell or not......I have to maintain adequate inventories for my existing customers, that will use more hay this year due to the drought, so that they do not run out. I have delivered quite a bit of hay to north Georgia but when I get calls from there now, I just blow them out with some high price quotes so I don't have to sell my hay.......interesting for sure, never seen it quite like this, wish now I had run a surplus from last year.....don't like to do that, in this case it would have been prudent and profitable. Without a doubt tho, I have to maintain my customer base that will buy hay next year just like they did for the 3,4,5 yrs prior, drought be damned......one has to remember that the hay business is not built overnite, relationships that took years to nurture can be lost forever......