This is a fyi on farming praire hay...

[Maxheader]

I had a custom hay guy cut and bale my hay...small qty..20 large bales. Like before it is done on a share basis...70 - 30 on selling and the bales are removed in short order..last time was 3 weeks..
This year he cut and baled but has left it in the field since june...which isn't part of the agreement..So I want to sell it to get it off my property and then reimburse the hay guy..

This question to an online attorney site and the response..

Judge Bill K ret. Lawyer

As you say, it is your land and your hay. You will not get in any trouble for selling that hay and either having the seller pick it up or delivering it to him. You can subsequently send the share that you owe to the custom cutting people. Incidentally, I grew up on a farm in southeastern Colorado, So I know about these issues

Judge Bill K. ret.

I was kinda worried about doing this but the judges answer makes sense

[shraby]

1. Did you check to see if the guy is okay? Maybe something went wrong in his world.

[jcgoldie]

2. Get a new hay guy

Leaving those bales in your field for months just kills big spots that will then grow up in weeds and spread. I would have zero problem selling that hay and I would not be sending that guy his cut at least not in full because he did not fulfill his obligation to you.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Hope the hay hasn't rotted. With excessive rain, it could go bad.

We had torrential rains June, July and part of August here. It would have ruined any bails left behind...depending on size.

I had a hay guy too. I say had because he just did less and less and then wanted me to pay him $220 to mow. He got to keep all the hay too. We have very hilly land. There near the end, he just left the hay in bails in the fields because he claimed it wasn't worth his costs.

I got my own tractor and do the fields myself now. I rarely ever need to buy hay.

[Bayard]

4. Won't be good for anything but cattle hay

You can't leave horse hay sitting out like that.

Are you talking round bales or square?

[Maxheader]

5. These a re 4 x 6 rounds...

As far as leaving them out..they are net wrapped..you see very few farmers in this area that stack inside...they all leave them outside...my neighbor..who used to buy my hay for their horses..leaves them out..And they have over 60 bales..done by the same hay guy...

[MuseRider]

6. I would certainly tell the guy

first before just out of courtesy. You never want to lose your hay guy. The other thing I would worry about it having it sit there. It wrecks the grass underneath. Maybe prairie pastures are different? Mine are brome and what is normally cut and baled in June is still up in my pasture, it has been too wet too often to cut. If he does not get it done soon I may lose the entire years worth of fertilizer and have to buy what is getting precious and hard to get just to keep my 4 horses over the winter.

[Maxheader]

7. Already tried to communicate with the hay dude...

No return phone msg or email...I don't know about the problems with leaving the bales in the field..figure getting them off is a good idea...
You say you might need hay for your horses?
I've 20 4x6 rounds..Like I said the stables next door used to buy it for their horses...and was told they loved it...
sc ks...Haven't decided on a price..

[MuseRider]

8. OMG you are in Kansas!

I cannot use round bales, I do not have a spike to move them and I have bales of brome waiting for mine to be round baled. It is a long time deal with the guy who is the son of my old, deceased hay guy. Otherwise I would get really excited and say yes!

Wherever you are you must not have gotten the rain we did or maybe you are higher up on the list of fields to be hayed. This has never happened to me here in the almost 30 years I have been doing this. He says he is still going to do everyone and I believe him.

[Maxheader]

9. Luck on your brome harvest...

https://wichita.craigslist.org/fgs/d/rose-hill-2019-clean-praire-hayround/6978824256.html

[MuseRider]

10. I bought a horse just South (I think)

of Augusta! I hope you get them sold, I would imagine they will go fast.

[MuseRider]

11. He started today.

Praying for no rain. That seems so odd to do in Kansas but I want the hay out!