Posted 2007-06-07 4:09 PM (#61959) Subject: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 91 Location: Small Town, Texas
I am so thrilled to see hay prices down, finally! We have had a really wet Spring. Hay is half what is was in the fall. Now I need to clean up and stock up....Squares are $4.50 and rounds $55 in North Texas...
Posted 2007-06-10 8:54 AM (#62082 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 294 Location: Fort Worth, Tx
Last year in N Texas we were making trips with the trailer to Kansas, Colorado, etc in order to even get hay...if you are living in a drought state and can't find any then you should start planning a trip. I know that several people paid up to $100 for a round and $10 for a square last year and they were lucky to find it-and that was just plain old coastal. Best of luck!
Posted 2007-06-10 7:29 PM (#62101 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 1205 Location: Danielsville Georgia
I bought 380 bales of Winter Rye grass($3.25 a bale delivered and stacked) and 7 round bales($35 each delivered) which I normaly would not use but weather in March had me wary with no spring rain.Now NO HAY.No grass.No moisture.My rented pastures I used very little over the winter and now have moved some horses to them.They are about calf deep in dry matter.Have had no weight issues as of yet with any.Looks like the winter rye cutting might be the ONLY cutting unless we see some rain.In fact I tried to TRADE a colt needing starting for a run of the mill game cock and the guy said NO!
Posted 2007-06-10 10:05 PM (#62111 - in reply to #62101) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 1885 Location: NY
in new york I can get hay for $5:00 a bale and some place are selling for( sit down for this one) $ 16:00 a bale and they are getting (????) not from me.
Posted 2007-06-11 9:03 AM (#62130 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 303 Location: Grapeland, Texas
Haven't checked much yet around here but one guy told me they were going to get $4.00 out of the field on square bales and $65.00 for round bales. The man that has my hay field leased said he was going to get $85.00 for his round bales. Lots of hay being baled around here now but if the rain stops this may be the only cutting. Last year there was only one cutting off my place.
Posted 2007-06-11 9:02 PM (#62166 - in reply to #62088) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 544 Location: Claxton, Ga.
Originally written by N2ridin on 2007-06-10 4:03 PM
Coastal/Bermuda is $9 square bale, and it's shitty. Not enough moisture.
Try Avery Farms in Moultrie,Ga.(South West Georgia)I just picked up some square bales (70-75 lbs and 42in long) for $6.00 a bale. Around here hay is running 12-18 dollars a square bale. Highway robbery. We have finaly had some rain and the temps are finally above 60 deg. at night and the grass is growing thank goodness.
Posted 2007-06-12 5:18 AM (#62171 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 662 Location: Vanzant, Missouri
I just got hay this past weekend. Nice orchard grass mix. Paid 3.50 a bale and 40$ for round bale. We are kinda dry around here also. If we don't get rain soon we'll be hurting..... Pastures are drying up..
Posted 2007-06-12 3:56 PM (#62204 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 167 Location: Monroe, WA
Man..... we need to get the heck out of this place!Last load of alfalfa was $225 a ton for good 2nd cutting horse hay. Before that, buying mix/timothy, it was $238 a ton. Growers around here are saying the hay is being taken out and planted in corn, some idiotic gummint subsidy or something. Export hay defines the market price in WA anyhow. all the best stuff gets put into containers and shipped overseas.
Posted 2007-06-12 6:34 PM (#62213 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 148 Location: South of Dallas
I was at the feed store last week and was warned by the guy who owns it to start stocking up on the hay, cuz if we thought it was scarce during the drought, it was only going to get worse d/t the farmers switching to corn. I notice there's ALOT of corn out in the fields in my area this season. Guess I picked a really bad time to get back into horses....
Posted 2007-06-12 7:36 PM (#62218 - in reply to #62055) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 792 Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth
Originally written by Covert Cowboy on 2007-06-09 9:25 AM
Wow! Friend of mine is selling square bales for $2.50 in Ohio and was recently accused of price gouging!$4.50 is wild!
Hey Guys...when chatting hay prices, keep in mind a bale in western WI, may not be the same size in Texas, or CA. The ones I got today are about 60lbs.
Posted 2007-06-13 10:39 AM (#62249 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 544 Location: Claxton, Ga.
I would love to buy hay for $4.50 a bale. No hay around me close and what they do have is being shipped in from up North. They are charging $12.00 to $17.00 dollars a small square bale (60lb). We should have a local cutting in the next 2 or 3 weeks thanks to the rain. Hay prices around my area is just highway robbery. You $2.75 bale folks make me sick....
Posted 2007-06-13 12:58 PM (#62257 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 25 Location: Edgerton,KS
Hay is up in Kansas this year. Square bales are starting at 4.00 and up. Not sure about round bales. You pick up and load in the field. After last year's drought and then the late frost we got. Plus the number of out of state people coming and buying it up by the truck load. The brome fields got hit the hardest. Not producing the quantity or quality of hay. Gas prices aren't helping either.
Posted 2007-06-13 11:02 PM (#62276 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 91 Location: Small Town, Texas
I am between Waco and Ft Worth and we have lots of corn here too. But there is a lot of hay in the field and looks like rain all next week. Although it looks like some of it is dark in the field due to all the rain....
I feel for those of you in the drough it is tough on the horse market and feed. Our horse prices have risen also. I am sure glad about that...
Posted 2007-06-14 10:19 AM (#62294 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 219 Location: Mt. Clemens, MI 48043
I paid $2.00 for small square bales. It was ala/mix. Hay goes for $2-5.00 depending where you purchase it. Everyone is getting their hay in right now. Sorry for the heat stricken part of the county. We need rain too, send it our way.
Posted 2007-06-14 2:39 PM (#62302 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 385 Location: high desert, CA.
Ok guys, SIT DOWN.
Here in the So. California alfalfa and hay growing area of the Antelope Valley, $9.95 for #1 Alfalfa, ( 100 lb bales), and $10.50 for 4-way grain hay, ( 100 lb bales), a lot of our hay is being shipped to brokers who are transporting to other areas. This stuff is the best quality, and really nice, but whoooo what a hit in the wallet!!
Posted 2007-06-14 3:04 PM (#62303 - in reply to #61959) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 67 Location: Iowa
The word around my area is that hay is going up because so many farmers tilled their hay fields to plant corn! Corn prices have gone up quite a bit lately and it's more profitable. I paid $2.25 a square bale last year. I also get round bales, but there's not a set price. At the end of the winter, we take them out for dinner. I also bake and send treats with each new delivery. I only get about 4 bales a year. He said he wastes that much each year. It's good to have neighbors!
Posted 2007-06-15 5:43 PM (#62349 - in reply to #62303) Subject: RE: Hay prices down!!
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Posts: 420 Location: Iowa
I just got my first cutting, Grass. off my field a few days ago. Only got half the amount from this field that we did last year. Just bought some good alfalfa out of the field for $3.00. Last year I gave 2.50 a bale for alfalfa from the same farmer. I'm getting mine packed away now, while I can.
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