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Location: Southern New Mexico | Anyone on S.Tx know of any hay for sale under $10 per sq bale? I love my horses, but I can't afford to spend $200 a month on hay. |
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Location: Apache Jct, AZ | Central Arizona: Grass - $10.75, Alfalfa - $10.50
I feel your pain. |
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Location: Danielsville Georgia | Wow! That much for hay? I grumble at $3.50 a bale.Last was $3.00 and that was delivered and stacked. Alfalfa? Whats that? LOL
Edited by hounddog 2006-04-18 12:26 PM
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Location: GA | I found a site that has several places listed.... not sure if they are sold out or not, but there are prices for Bermuda starting around $5. Hope this helps - I know you all out west are having a hard time with hay.... Good Luck!! http://www.hayexchange.com/ - Just search for Texas :) |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | I just spent $80 on 10 bales of coastal. Nice, beautiful, fresh baled coastal, but still..... Haven't been able to get alfalfa for a month or so. I checked out the hay exchange, hay barn and another web site. There are a few places that are lower, but about 6hrs north of me and when you add in gas its pretty much the same price. |
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Location: West Coast | Pain is right, here in SoCal we are paying $9 to $10 a bale for cow hay and horse (Alfalfa) hay is running between $ 12.00 and $ 12.50. I'd like to feed timothy hay, but can't afford it at around $ 18.00 a bale.
Edited by RoperChick 2006-04-18 4:38 PM
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Location: Northern Utah | The price of fuel (now approaching $3.00 a gallon in my area) will continue to drive up hay cost. Poor farmers can't afford to cut and bale it for the $2.00 a bale I paid last summer. It's predominately alfalfa or alfalfa/grass blend. I usually find a 100 bales of oat hay to mix in with the alfalfa to reduce the calories. Other wise my white gelding would look like a propane tank with legs. |
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Location: Danielsville Georgia | Have had terrible droughts here in Georgia several times.When I only had a couple of horses I fed a complete feed and little to no hay.Would buy 30 bags of Manna Pro Roundup at a time. |
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Location: Tipton, IN | And to think I complain about $2.50 a bale for timothy / alfalfa mix. We'll see what it goes to this year. |
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Location: Decatur, Texas | I'm thinking about leasing pasture in Ohio or Indiana and moving my horses up there. It would be cheaper to fly up every weekend to ride them than purchase hay here in Texas to feed. LOL |
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| OH MY! I had no idea hay was that expensive in your neck of the woods!
It makes me feel extremely GRATEFUL that I get beautiful bromegrass stacked in the barn for $2.75/bale!
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Wow. People paying less than $3 per bale is almost hard to believe. We haven't had that here in a while. I wonder if it would be worth driving to GA to get some. |
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Location: West TN | We have producers that live in TN that will ship out semi loads of bermuda hay each year to Texas. Last year, they sold it for $3 a bale. We don't feed too much alfalfa up this way. They work with freight companies to see if there is a truck that is "dead heading" back that way and load the truck. If a group of you went together, it might be cost effective in the long run. |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | I wonder what it would run shipped. I know my feed store has alfalfa shipped in from nm and they sell it for $10 a bale. |
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Location: Northern Utah | I feel for you folks having to pay that much.
We used to haul semi trailer loads of hay down from SE Idaho to the dairy. You can fit about 400 bales on a semi trailer. That's about 12 tons give or take. That's not that much weight for a Semi. I'd look into some of the compressed bales. Where they double compress it. A standard 60lb bale is 1/2 the size. You might get 700 bales per truck. There is producer close to here that bales that way and ships to Japan.
You'll have to talk to a trucking company and see what they charge for mileage. It's the transport cost not the cost of raw hay that drives up the total cost.
Hay is going to cost $80 to $120 a ton around here depending on type of hay, in the field vs barn stored, Ton bales vs small two strand square bales.
Even going into my local feed store and buying hay cubes at retail is only $8-$9 a 80lb bags of cubes. I buy these bags of cubes and haul them with me for weekend rides. Especially where I need certified weed free feed like in Forest Service or BLM lands. The cubes are in sacks and are more compact and easier to store in the trailer than full size bales. |
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Location: missouri | Hay could be a problem with droughts and all....it seems as though many suppliers try to gouge us when we need it least.... however, we bale our own and have some skinny witches try to naggle us down under 2.50 per 80-90# square bales.... imagine that! |
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Location: La Crosse, WI - God's Country | OMG!!! We pay about 1.75 to 2.50 per bale up here in dairy country!!! |
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Location: Decatur, Texas | Now I don't know whether to spend all my money on hay or on fuel. I can understand hay being somewhat expensive during our drought here in Texas, but I look out my back door and see the oil wells NOT pumping? Yes, professor, explain to me again please about the laws of supply versus demand. |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | No kidding. None of the oil rigs here are pumping. I can understand the price of hay going up because of fuel prices. But I was paying $4 a bale (fresh cutting, last of the year) in Oct and the fuel prices havent doubled since then but hay prices have more than doubled. |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Does anyone know the hay prices on NM? We are moving up there this summer and I would like to have some Idea on hay prices. That way I can figure out weither or not it will be worth the gas for a "hay" trip while we are moving. |
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Location: Illinois | We grow our own hay (grass) but pay to have it mowed and bailed. We pay a dollar ($1.00) a bail and he even picks it up out of the field. All we have to do is put it in the barn. Can't beat that.
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Location: Southern New Mexico | If I could..... I have the land, but not the water. |
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Location: Northern Utah | A number of the folks I used to do CTR rides with are from the 4 corners region. The ones from Durango CO and Farmington NM have been complaining about hay prices for last 5-6 years. Because of the draught. One friend south of Durango said he was lucky to get one cutting last summer, and it was pretty sparse.
I don't know the price, but I suspect it's still on the high side because of the draught. I don't watch the weather for New Mexico. But most of Utah has really gotten wet this winter. Our draught seems to have broken and the resevours are full. (at least up north here) Most of the areas in Utah under irrigation should have water to irrigate with and multiple cuttings this summer. Which should really help the supply for our area.
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Location: Northern Utah | I spent Friday & Saturday riding in the 4 corners area of Utah. ( Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico along with Utah make up the 4 corners) Asked my friend what he is paying for hay in that part of the country
He is buying Ton bales for $80 per ton and small bales for $150 a ton. I suspect his hay is grown locally in that area. 2-3 signs along highway as I drove into town saying "Hay for sale" |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Thanks. If my math is right, that is like $2.50 for 60lb square bales. I wish I could find that around here.
Edited by Terri 2006-04-22 10:56 PM
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Location: Northern Utah | You will have to add the gas cost and see if it's worth the trouble to haul some home with you on your next trip out.
I suspect the closer you get to the eastern edge of NM the more the draught has affected the price. |
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Location: Cherokee, Ia | Man! I guess living up here in Iowa isn't that bad after all. We are lucky enough to raise our own hay(grass mix/timothy/orchard/brome and alfalfa) Usually sell it between 2.50-2.75/bale and they range from 75-95#. We even help them load bales out of the barn! Can't believe the prices you all have to pay. Old farmers up here say it's always better to buy the ton, unless your square bales are nice and heavy. . A friend in Springfield IL pays 3/bale, delivered, but they only weigh about 45#. But 10-$12/bale???? What a ripoff, but supply and demand always comes back to bite you in your wallet (among other places!!) With the price of fuel, there goes our trailrides.......... Hey, maybe all of us horsepeople should ride up on the Whitehouse lawn and fight for lower fuel prices. Maybe if some of the politicians had to "step" in it behind our horses, they wouldn't be so quick to dish it out to us!! |
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