Posted 2006-04-18 1:51 PM (#40632 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
Regular
Posts: 50 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!!
Posted 2006-04-18 3:52 PM (#40639 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2828 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.
Posted 2006-04-18 4:36 PM (#40644 - in reply to #40632) Subject: RE: Hay
Veteran
Posts: 238 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.
Posted 2006-04-18 8:07 PM (#40648 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2453 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.
Posted 2006-04-19 1:45 AM (#40660 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 1205 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.
Posted 2006-04-19 7:02 AM (#40663 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 335 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
Posted 2006-04-19 9:47 AM (#40670 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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!
Brenda
Posted 2006-04-19 2:31 PM (#40683 - in reply to #40670) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2828 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.
Posted 2006-04-19 5:30 PM (#40686 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 500 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.
Posted 2006-04-19 10:39 PM (#40701 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2453 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.
Posted 2006-04-20 11:27 AM (#40729 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 690 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!
Posted 2006-04-20 1:18 PM (#40738 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 335 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.
Posted 2006-04-20 2:31 PM (#40745 - in reply to #40738) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2828 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.
Posted 2006-04-20 2:33 PM (#40746 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2828 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.
Posted 2006-04-20 8:27 PM (#40759 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 179 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.
Shari
Posted 2006-04-21 6:42 AM (#40771 - in reply to #40625) Subject: RE: Hay
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Posts: 2453 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.
Posted 2006-04-22 10:35 PM (#40829 - in reply to #40625) Subject: Hay
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Posts: 2453 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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