Sale Barn Today

[big rockpile]

Went to the Sale Barn today,wasn't too many there so didn't get very good price on what we had.But I'm glad I don't have Stock around here.Hay was bringing $5-$7.50 a bale.

What got me was Firewood.If it was in a small pile it brought more than a large pile.So people would bring in a Pickup load and divide it into three piles.



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[ma1bob]

Hay prices are insane in some parts of the country. We pay $35 per huge round bales of clover, alphalfa and timothy hay delivered. What is everyone else paying?

Cheers

Bob

[veme]

we are selling at $2.50 a square bale for 1st cut.

veme

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by ma1bob

Hay prices are insane in some parts of the country. We pay $35 per huge round bales of clover, alphalfa and timothy hay delivered. What is everyone else paying?

Cheers

Bob

Big Round Bales of Grass Hay was selling for $55+ today.But nobody had any Hay and no pasture this last year.Because of the drought.Then harder than normal Winter.

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[FarmboyBill]

baled grass hay square $9. and Wood like you say you saw it. Maybe a heaping pk load cut into 3 (look like ) 1/2 pk lds. Was bringing around $16 a pile. My kids wanted 5 sheets of plywood that I get from work for free. Having many different sizes, I loaded around 28 sheets into the pk and first went to their house. Well, he took the top 5 and asked me what I was going to do with the rest. Was I going to take it back home. Heck no, I said, Ill take it to the auction and get what I can get on it. Well, I got a buck a sheet. I told my boy I would start buying a pile of wood a month, and by winter my woodshed would be filled and I wouldnt have to cut hardly at all.

[prairiecomforts]

Smal sq. - 50 lbs. - $2.50 to 3.00 delivered

Big rounds - 1200 lb. grass - $35 Alfafa- $45 to 55 delivery extra.

With the drought I don't even want to think about how high the prices could be next year. This year - we had no hay here and had to have it trucked in from about 120 miles away. With fuel prices - a lot of cattle guys around here sold out.

[MOgal]

A friend of mine had a load of alfalfa trucked down from Canada which she sold for enough money to cover all costs. Basically she got her own hay for free with the deal she set up.

A month ago tonight, we had a loose horse in our field. He hadn't been on his own very long as he was still in good flesh but he was very thirsty. I think the spring on our place is the only open water that isn't fenced in our neighborhood so he was pretty thirsty. I gave him water, then some oats and a pile of hay. I called some horse owning neighbors to see if they were missing one and while I was inside he left. Our barn wasn't built horse strong and I had no idea how he would react to being led and stalled. I was also concerned that my goats/sheep would freak and vacate the barn overnight when we were expecting yet another snowfall. Anyway, he didn't stick around to finish the hay and I heard the following Monday that another neighbor had taken him in. No one had been looking for a horse and the consensus in the community is that someone just turned him out and kept quiet about it. Lots of people with cattle and no hay or pasture grass left are selling out at a loss.

I talked with a man who lives east of Kansas City a couple of weeks ago and he told me that hay is so scarce that horses are being offered for as little as $75/head.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Good grass hay - $65 a round bale, net wrapped. Add $15 for delivery.

[big rockpile]

MOgal kind of reminds me when people would put a Calf in a Pen along the road,put a sign out Free Calf,come back and have two more.

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[ceresone]

Been buying hay all winter, because I have a horse that founders. hay man brought me 12 square bales this week, suggested I turn horses out in field, as cant founder in winter(dumb me)--horses havent touched the hay since!! so--spring grass will be my problem--

[susieM]

I used to buy newborn bull calves from the dairy for $5.00. Of course, that was almost 40 years ago.

[MOgal]

My Arab/TW gelding foundered when he was about 18 and he had to be on drylot every summer until he died (we had to put him down when he was almost 26 because he had cancer that metastized before we knew anything was wrong). He loved winter and you should have seen him buck and play when he could be on the pasture.

There were two more want-to-buy listings in the MissouriMarketPlace this morning looking for hay.

[Rockin'B]

$2.50 per small square bales of good quality alfalfa and grass mix.

We just bought 65 more bales.

[uncle Will in In.]

ROCKY, You forgot to mention that there was a pickup load of zuchinni in that pen with those calves and the pot bellied pigs! I'm sorry, you must have been there before I was.

[cc]

Square bales run from $6.50 up to $8.75 and even at those prices it is getting hard to find.

[DocM]

70-100 lb bales of excellent grass hay, $2.50 a bale. BUT, I contracted with the guy last June to buy 80 bales a month from November to April. The same guy is selling the same bales to drop ins for $5 a bale, and getting it.

[DocM]

Day old bull calves from the dairy by me are $15. Firewood is free - we had a huge windstorm in November and then another in December, hundreds of down trees, timber company paying people to drive the log roads and clear the timber off so they don't have to pay a crew to do it.

[65284]

My sis and her husband live in Linn County, Kansas she told me yesterday they had sold off part of their herd so they would have enough hay to get them through to grass. Big round bales there are bringing $140.00, if they can be found.