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LIFE I kept those northern boys The Midwest Cattleman · August 25, 2022 · P9
continued from page 5 entertained for years with HAY SUPPLIES
words like haint: “On Hal- continuing drought, the
called a barrow, yet for the loween, we should dress up continued from page 6 2022 hay supply data illus-
first eighteen years of my like haints and scare all the tion in 2022 hay supplies and trate why so much herd liq-
life, I had only heard it pro- city people.” the lowest hay supply since uidation has occurred this
nounced as a bar hog. No Dicker: “You could have 2012. In Missouri and Ken- year. It also speaks to the
wonder some of my profes- gotten that truck quite a bit tucky, where drought has not continuing challenges that
sors thought I was mentally cheaper, if you’d have just been a factor, reduced 2022 cattle producers will face to
challenged. dickered on the price.” hay production is likely the get through the winter be-
My three college room- Seagrass string: “Does result of high fertilizer prices fore the 2023 growing season
mates were all from up your daddy use wire or sea- and reduced input use. could provide the next oppor-
north, and they stayed con- grass string in his hay baler?” Eight of the top ten hay tunity for improved forage
fused by my language for the I can still remember my states are also top ten beef conditions.
years that we lived together. major professor in graduate cow states including Texas,
I can vividly remember when school, after reviewing the Oklahoma, Missouri, Ne-
one of my friends had lost first draft of my doctoral dis- braska, South Dakota, Kan-
his car keys; I told him not sertation, using what must sas, Montana
to worry, because, “They had have been two entire red and Kentucky.
to be around here summers.” pens, to enter all the correc- These eight
When he said that he needed tions, then summarizing on states had 15.7
to find them long before sum- the last page, with, “Where million beef
mer arrived, I realized that the hell did you go to school?” cows on Jan-
my mispronunciation was Eventually, I passed, but it uary 1, 2022.
simply the hillbilly word for was still firmly engrained in The other two,
somewhere. my mind, when I overheard California
Another time they had a the head of the department and Idaho, are
chuckle at my expense was tell another professor, “Yeah, the number
when I told them I had pre- Jerry’s a good person and one and three
pared rosineers for supper. will probably make a good dairy cow
Again, it was an epiphany for teacher, he’ll just never be a states, respec-
me to learn that the enun- writer.” tively. With
ciation I had used for years, the growing
actually meant roasting ears season wind-
of corn. ing down amid
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