Danielle_E.
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We have two feeds stores basically across the street from each other and both are doing well in sales BUT in my area EVERYONE owns horses and multiples. On my county rd alone and it's loooooong road, I count perhaps 3 properties that don't own horses. Everyone else owns a minimum of 3 full size horses, one has 10. I live in mega horse country, Jill Henselwood (Olympic Canadian Team) lives the street over. Hay prices are what they were last year $4 a bale for mixed/alfalfa and 50lb bales. Round bales (horse quality) are anywhere from $35 to $40 and approximately 600lbs. The grain is up in price (Purina) and all the others as well and that has to do with gas prices. I don't see prices coming down anytime soon. As a matter of fact if the price of gas goes up, as the "speculators" are saying feed prices will go up again and again. I wish these so called "speculators" would knock it off because THEY are the ones that started the rise... and the greedy oil companies decided to go along, what the heck since people had been warned, and line their coffers with excessive profits. Shortage of gas my rearend. Even the Saudis said they weren't the one driving up the prices and that the supply was there, no shortage. Every time their is rumour of war the "speculators" start their chant that their will be a shortage, blah, blah, blah and tell everyone to expect a rise and we of course buy into the lie and get led around like the Pied Piper.
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