Summer Bounty, Winter Ease

The Hay Board meeting was this afternoon. With everypony out of the fields for the winter, it was a full room. As I thought, yaks taking a fancy to our hay (the best in Equestria!) has put a real dent into our third cut stores, reduced our second cut stores as well, and that has kept prices high. Fortunately, the price for silage and first cut hay is about the same as it was last year and we have enough good first cut hay to last us past Summer Sun Celebration.

The problem is that if we increase our hay production as planned, we will probably meet the new demand for third cut hay, but we risk over-producing first cut hay. There was talk of using the surplus as building material, or of mowing a few fields every week until after Summer Sun Celebration day and then letting the hay grow to harvest height.