12-19-2019 Alfalfa and Grass

Thursday December 19, 2019

75 loads.

Today’s sale brought good buyer attendance with alfalfa selling mostly steady.  Overall the quality was decent.  Grass market was a little low with a lot of average quality grass.  Straw was a little weaker and cornstalks were steady.

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SIZE    LBS  $/TON CUT

lgrd  52500 195.00 4th

lgrd  37320 180.00 2nd

lgrd  50470 175.00 2nd

lgrd  55690 172.50 2nd

lgrd  44360 170.00 3rd

lgrd  43580 170.00 3rd

lgrd  57940 165.00 4th

lgrd  49420 162.50 2nd

lgrd  45280 160.00

lgrd  48450 160.00 1st

lgrd  56300 157.50 1st

lgrd  55680 157.50 3rd

lgrd  65500 155.00 3rd

lgrd               150.00 2nd

lgrd  48420 150.00 1st

lgrd  47720 145.00 2nd

lgrd  45580 145.00 2nd

lgrd  45560 142.50 1st

lgrd  51400 132.50 2nd

lgrd  49740 130.00

lgrd  47900 125.00 1st

lgrd  47520 120.00 1st

lgrd  42260 115.00

-------GRASS-43-------

SIZE    LBS  $/TON CUT

3x4   48720 110.00

lgrd  49820 155.00

lgrd  45900 155.00

lgrd  38880 152.50

lgrd  51420 150.00

lgrd  45380 145.00

lgrd  21080 142.50

lgrd  45360 140.00

lgrd  46900 140.00

lgrd  42840 135.00

lgrd  48980 132.50

lgrd  50540 132.50

lgrd  47440 132.50

lgrd  47000 130.00

lgrd  50960 130.00

lgrd  17520 125.00

lgrd  44520 125.00

lgrd  47780 125.00

lgrd  49380 122.50

lgrd  45820 122.50

lgrd  19240 120.00

lgrd  41360 120.00

lgrd  50780 120.00

lgrd  50500 120.00

lgrd  42360 120.00

lgrd  41900 120.00

lgrd  52120 120.00

lgrd  51480 117.50

lgrd  49860 117.50

lgrd  48860 117.50

lgrd  53780 117.50

lgrd  44980 117.50

lgrd  52560 115.00

lgrd  43580 115.00

lgrd  43420 115.00

lgrd  39720 112.50

lgrd  45700 110.00

lgrd  45400 110.00

lgrd  45580 100.00

lgrd  45280 100.00

lgrd  53780  97.50

smsq   3280 170.00

smsq   2520 120.00

*Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman sitting already dressed on his bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted that he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, I asked him if his wife was meeting him. “I don’t know,” he said. “She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”