Unseasonable weather has cut Alaska’s hay harvest in half and sent the price of feed soaring.
Delta-area farmer and rancher Scott Mugrage says he tried to hold down the price of hay he produced this year to give other farmers a break. He ended up raising his price for the commodity by about 30 percent.
Kaspari says that was followed by warmer-than-usual early summer weather in both the Interior and the Mat-Su, the state’s biggest agricultural areas, and then a wetter-than-usual July and August, especially in southcentral. “So the fertilizer and fuel going up and the amount of yield going down was kind a two-fold kick, y’know?” he said.
Scott Mugrage grows hay, barley and oats on his farm, and uses some for his cattle and sells the rest. “Alaska is an area where we’re experiencing drought,” says Jodie Anderson, the interim director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks . She says dry weather is especially hard on plants that are beginning to spout. And it’s a problem for so-called dry-land farming, a type of cultivating that doesn’t require irrigation — which, until recently, worked pretty well.
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