Better dairy prices and new equipment developments dominated conversation at this year's show. Attendance was sparse at the HayExpo this year, but the equipment manufacturers that were exhibiting say their prospects for improving haying equipment sales are better than they have been for some time. Many attributed the weak attendance to the cool, wet spring that held up farming operations for several weeks. Reportedly, many growers were two to three weeks behind in cutting their first hay of the season, pushing them into early June, at the same time HayExpo was scheduled, which was June 8-9, in Cannon Falls, Minn.
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