Hay Farming is Like Trout Fishing

One of the things that happens in January after you have done pre-maintenance, Strategic planning (while you were waiting for the inlaws to leave at Christmas, tax prep, fertilizer advance orders, etc is you start thinking and that is always bad. I have decided there are many parallels between trout fishing and hay farming. here are some: Hay farming and trout fishing are both put and take systems. You don't put, then you don't take a lot. You do both because despite failure and short comings, you just love it. You work your butt off and the season limits your harvest. With both, you do your advance planning, get a licence, landowner permissions, rent land and wait for the day to start. Then the weather turns to Psst! However, when it rolls in like a 16" native or a green bale of dry teff, man it is the best! The writer acknowledges this is based on eastern trout, not western trout fishing experience.



Hay Farming is Like Trout Fishing