If permanent labour is employed, farming activities should be so planned that expenditure on casual and contract labour and fodder purchased is reduced to a minimum. To this end alone it pays a farmer to increase the area cut for silage and reduce that cut for hay, as hay is nearly always baled by a contractor; sometimes indeed, the whole operation of making hay is done by contract and is expensive.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 89, Issue 4, 15 October 1954, Page 341
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71If permanent labour is employed, farming activities should be so planned that expenditure on casual and contract labour and fodder purchased is reduced to a minimum. To this end alone it pays a farmer to increase the area cut for silage and reduce that cut for hay, as hay is nearly always baled by a contractor; sometimes indeed, the whole operation of making hay is done by contract and is expensive. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 89, Issue 4, 15 October 1954, Page 341
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