It’s that time of year where people are mowing down their fields and making those giant hay bales.

I live up in the northernmost parts of Buncombe County, and it was this week when people were using all of their expensive farm equipment, and plenty of man hours, to make those giant bales of hay.

I just looked it up on FB Marketplace: they are going from $20-35 per bale of hay.

Let’s say a 20-acre plot of land makes 50 bales of hay. This is multiple days of work, using specialized and expensive farm equipment – not to mention the months growing the grasses – for $1,750 worth of hay.

The farm I see do this most has no horses or livestock. So they have to be growing it for money. Right?

Explain it to me!