Hay is one thing ranchers just couldn’t seem to get enough of this winter. Ag. Reporter andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/sarah-gustinandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Sarah Gustinandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; takes us down near the andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/south-dakotaandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;South Dakotaandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; border to show just how important this year's hay crop is. This year the cows were just a little too hungry. (Mike Paul / Rancher) andamp;quot;It just took so darn much. You know we started feeding. I usually graze my andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/cornandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Cornandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; fields till the end of Decemeber. This year we started feeding in the end of October, early November.andamp;quot; Restocking hay yards isn't going to be an easy task this year. Mike Paul is one producer whose hay stacks just weren't big enough. Even Paul's carry over bales from 2007 and 2008 weren't enough. Paul says he started with about 2500 balesthose lasted until the end of March. (Mike Paul / Rancher) andamp;quot;The week when we started that flooding I had about 300 head consigned at andamp;lt;a href=andamp;quot;http://www.kxnet.com/t/linton-ndandamp;quot; class=andamp;quot;kxInlineLinkandamp;quot;andamp;gt;Lintonandamp;lt;/aandamp;gt; that I was going to sell and the sale got canceled and everything turned to heck and we had so much mud and everything. I ended up keeping them and having to feed them for 6 weeks longer and I couldn't get in with the feed wagon to feed any of my silage and any more grain so it took all of a sudden double the hay. So it just depleted my hay supply real quick.andamp;quot; Instead of feeding eight to ten bales a day Paul was feeding 25 to 30. (Doug Bichler / Emmons Co. Agent) andamp;quot;The hay supply was really short to begi...