No, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Hay prices skyrocketed as ranchers were run off range land, cows gotta eat, subsidies for ethanol have filled farm and ranch land with corn for fuel, not feed. Japan and China are importing hay for their own dairies rather than importing dairy products from the US just as they import steel and other resources to to take our manufactuering jobs.
For all your bluster, you don't know much. Government regulation, subsidies(corporate welfare) and "free trade" do have reigns on hay prices and every other commodity.
LOL. Yeah, I'm sure clueless.
That's why hay prices are at their lowest they have been here, in the last 10 years. Guys can't even get enough out of it to recoup their expenses.
And we had a wet summer last year. More hay (alfalfa ) was wrapped high moisture then it has been in a VERY long time. So you'd think that would drive dry hay price up even more right? Well it isn't.
P.S. You can't get any crop insurance on hay here, and I don't think nationally, crop insurance is offered on it.
Also, the by products of ethanol (distillers grains) are FED to animals. The corn raised for it isn't wasted. So yes, ALL that ethanol corn IS feed.
Maybe it is you that needs to buy a clue.
Just because hay is high in your market, doesn't mean it is overall.