Standlee Hay Company believes that growing, processing and delivering premium forage products begins with quality in the field. Standlee Hay Company has a strong emphasis on hands-on management at each of our farms; our farm managers are deeply involved with all areas of production. Since our managers are directly involved in our farming operations our attention to details and quality is unparalleled. We continue to appreciate the tried and true tradition that farming is a family business. Standlee Hay Company is a third generation, family owned business dedicated to providing quality forage products. For over 50 years beginning with the patriarch Gene Standlee, Gene and his son’s Mike and Lynn Standlee worked the fields together, then passed along their expertise to the new generation, Mike’s son Dusty Standlee. Together the Standlee family has produced alfalfa, timothy and orchard grass forages in the fertile volcanic soils of Southern Idaho.
At Standlee Hay timing is everything. Employees toil for many long hours in fields planting, watering and harvesting forage products at the peak of perfection. Standlee Hay Company produces most of its hay using the large square baler. We use these large 4 x 4 x 8 bales of hay to manufacture our compressed bales, sleeved hay, and larger compressed bales for the international market. Three string bales are still common; however, our 3-string forage is a specialty market.
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Standlee Hay Company owns nearly 10,000 acres and farms different types of hay forage. Our Blue Gulch Farm is a beautiful farm located in western Twin Falls County, Idaho, sprawling over 5 square miles! It consists of over 4000 acres of land, primarily irrigated by 56 center pivots with water provided by wells located on the farm. The farm is almost totally landlocked, being surrounded by the Owyhee Desert and BLM ground. There is only a small fraction of one border that is adjacent to another farm. This isolation helps the Blue Gulch farm raise the highest quality forage products possible.
Our high quality forage crops are all certified noxious weed-free. Along with the pure well water, modern irrigation techniques, and the farm's isolation, our skilled employees spend many exhausting hours planting, watering, fertilizing and harvesting to raise and deliver a superior product to our customer.
Idaho’s highly fertile volcanic soil, abundant irrigation, minimal humidity, and low annual rainfall create the perfect climate to produce high quality hay. Hay can be cured in as little as 3 days. The largest volumes of the highest quality forages are grown in the west consistently year after year.