12-19-2019 Mixed Hay and Bedding

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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MIXED (ALFALFA/GRASS)-3

SIZE    LBS  $/TON CUT

lgrd  45300 145.00 1st

lgrd  43260 127.50

lgrd  44420 117.50

 

--------STRAW-3-------

SIZE    LBS  $/TON

3x4   53320 132.50

lgrd  39460 115.00

lgrd  39240 110.00

-----CORNSTALKS-3-----

SIZE    LBS  $/TON

lgrd  45000  72.50

lgrd  49860  62.50

lgrd  48240  62.50

*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.”