North Dakota Hay Being Sold To Drought-Stricken Ranchers

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Oil isn’t the only booming business in North Dakota - local farmers are selling their extra hay to farmers in southern states, Dave Schmidt, Belfield, said, and they can’t make enough of it.

“We have shipped out a hundred loads so far,” Schmidt said. “They don’t care if it is round bales or square bales. They want it.”
It has been a good year for cutting hay, giving farmers a surplus, Bobby Kubas, South Heart, said. He added people selling cattle is also a factor.

“People are putting up three times the amount of hay they need,” he said. “It’s just going to go to waste if we don’t move it.”

Kubas sold 1,500 bales through Habiger Hay Farms in Kinsley, Kan. Owner Scott Habiger works with several farmers in North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.

Another incredible story out of North Dakota. We are very, very fortunate.