I am now the molasses king! Maybe not "king," but maybe, "Vice Chancellor," or "Deputy Assistant Director to the Molasses Division sub head"

I am a sucker for a deal. I suspect this is a farmer thing.

I bought six 275 gallon totes of molasses. I will never need molasses again...

I found the add on FB marketplace. 275 gallon molasses totes for $150. Plain old blackstrap is like $500 a ton at the local feed store and at 13lbs per gallon these suckers must weigh 3000lbs! 

So I talked my nephew into driving me 85 miles to buy a couple totes.

The place selling the molasses was a distillery warehouse that was closing and they had more totes, plus huckleberry syrup which I suspect would make interesting "hay preservative."

That weekend I thought I had a sale for one tote at $350 so I went back that Monday and bought four more. Almost bought six but I remembered hauling the G1000 Vista with the old GMC roll back and that was 10,000lbs. Four totes was 12,000lbs and six would have put me at 18,000 which I feel is totally fine as a farmer but it was 85 miles home.

That was in January and after getting home and wondering what to do with six totes of molasses and then my one sale fell through so I was of course full of frustration and self doubt. Which is not unusual anyway,

I thought I would wait to sell molasses till after January as my plan was to sell 5 gallon buckets for $20 and I thought the buckets would fill faster in February.

Feed sales had completely stopped and in true Farmer Optimistic Fashion, I figured no one will ever buy from me again.

So last weekend up put up a couple ads for Corn/Oats/Barley/Peas and Oat/Alfalfa pellets. I also put up the molasses advertisment.

My message box suddenly filled up. 

I am selling feed and molasses like there is no tomorrow! Meaning, three people want 1000lb bags but have not actually picked them up, and I sold 30 buckets of molasses.

Now this is funny...

Not a buck is going for animal feed. People are a bit cagey about what they are doing but... During half time Sunday I got a local sale of 5 gallons to a guy making rum in his garage. Yesterday, I sold ten to a home brewer, two to a local lady for her pancakes, (10 gallons for pancakes...) and 20 to a couple didn't really say but were so impressed by the price that I suspect it is going for food grade.

I have had that question a lot. Is it food grade? Well it was in the tote but those buckets are certainly not...

I finally read the tag. It is sweet, unsulfered, food grade molasses and each tote probably sold for $3,000 each...

I will sell you totes for $1,499,99 if you mention you saw the offer on TheLazyFarmerBlog...

What a deal.

Might even throw in an unlabeled bottle of Vodka, but how I hypothetically ended up with four cases of four cases of unlabeled bottles of Vodka is a story I swore not to tell. Some what ironic as I don't drink Vodka but... $20 is $20!

I am used to Blackstrap from the feed store. Nasty stuff that I don't see how cows like it. I tried a taste of this and it was sweet! Like pancake syrup. I filled a jar for my wife to make cookies. This jar will probably last us for five years... And I have 1,200 gallons!

Pouring into buckets is an issue. It pours faster on a sunny afternoon but still slow enough that I wander off and forget