Hay Fever: A forage deficit has both sides of the fence - cattle producers and forage dealers - scrambling if

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Innovative thieves stunned Jack McMahan last fall when they made off with 52 big round bales of hay from land he rents 10 miles from his Sevierville, Tenn., headquarters. The brazen crooks made a midday raid, loading the hay in a pair of U-Haul rentaltrucks and a couple of trailers. "It meant having to round up more hay from somewhere. This was good hay. As far as getting the same quality and quantity goes, I was up the creek on that," McMahan says. Even though the sheriffs department eventually made an arrest, the stolen hay could not be recovered.