Another hay comment/question.

[Bwana]

I recall seeing a rant about hay prices on here recently. My GF will be getting a load of 105 small sqares (technically, rectangles ) for $2 a piece. Good price? I thought so. It's real high quality hay too...for horses. Grass/alphalfa mix I guess, and never moldy.

Dave

[Beeman]

Buy all you can and ship it south. I've heard of $10 a square bale already and people are hoarding it. Seriously I don't think you can go wrong at $2 unless it's bad hay.

[goatlady]

I'll take 100 bales please. Right now I;m paying $8.50 a bale for alfalfa/orchard grass being hauled in from Iowa!!!

[Rockin'B]

That's a good price. I just paid 2.50 for 1st cutting alfalfa/grass. Good hay for 1st cutting. We have 161 bales put up and will buy 2nd cutting alfalfa for the rest. I expect to pay 3.25 to 3.75 for good stuff.

[bill not in oh]

Originally Posted by Bwana

I recall seeing a rant about hay prices on here recently. My GF will be getting a load of 105 small sqares (technically, rectangles ) for $2 a piece. Good price? I thought so. It's real high quality hay too...for horses. Grass/alphalfa mix I guess, and never moldy.

Dave

How much of that do they have? What % alfalfa, and what kind of grass?

[Rocky Fields]

Hey.

Hay is currently cheap in WI ...stock up...a drought is in the making right now.

RF

[HaysFarm]

We are in north florida
t&a- 13.50 and up
alf- 16.00 and up
costal - if you can find it - 8.00 and up
If you go right to the farmer
you can get costal for 5.00 to 7.00 a bale and any where from 50 to 80 a roll.
Should have bought a metal building and stored up last year. i'll learn,

[rambler]

Delivered, that is a fair price for right now in your location. She did well, but hay is cheap up this way at this time of the year. I would expect it to sell for close to a buck here this time of year, if you have to pick it up yourself at a regular farm auction - not the horse owner big buck auctions.

I'm thinking with the dry weather in much of the hay growing parts of the country, & possibly a lot of hay ground convered to corn growing this spring, that could look like real cheap hay 6 months from now.

Weather could change that, but the odds are this will be your best price for the next 12 months. Possibly by a lot if the weather stays against us all.

--->Paul

[Ole Man Legrand]

In May we got very little rain, but in June we already have 2 and a half inches of rain. The brown fields are already turning green.Square bales of fescue is selling for $4.00 Central N.C. Jay