Meyer Hay Early days

The beginnings and operation of Meyer hay. We sat down with KYLE and Wally Meyer to talk about their upbringing and farming in the early days of Rathdrum. They have a hay operation where they condense hay bale's to ship across the country and other places in the world.

Sat down and talked with Wally Meyer about farming in the early days of Rothdrum. They have a hay operation where they condense hay bales to ship across the country and other places in the world. Speaker2: We moved toward growing grass seed here. When us boys matured into our twenties. Dad wanted to incorporate us into the operation and a lot of the ground was leased and at that time he gave the doctors who owned it and wanted to sell it. He gave us boys the chance to buy it from the doctors rather than himself. My brothers, Wayne and Doug at that time, and we tried raising wheat and peas and barley also, but we found our best crop here was bluegrass seed. It was very acceptable to grow bluegrass here at that time. Speaker1: But as time moved on, they ran into a little bit of trouble. Speaker2: Bluegrass Seed required burning. It was not that objectionable at first. As the years went by, the fella who owns the resort and the local paper kind of got pretty hard on us about grass field burning. Pressure increased. It became a more difficult crop grow because of that. All the roads out here at that time were either dirt or gravel. They weren't paved. Burning next to a road is always hazardous because of the smoke, but they weren't very traveled. And you can see by the traffic now, we could never burn next to one of. Snow was busy as a lot of highways here in Idaho. Speaker1: We're all forced to make changes.