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Alfalfa Prices
I just read that alfalfa prices will be sky high this year. I already pay $16/bale for 2nd cutting, I can't imagine paying more. How much do you pay for alfalfa and do you have any tips on how to find it cheaper? Thanks!
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06/25/11, 06:30 PM
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Locally alfalfa wouldn't top $6/bale, more commonly it'd be 3-4. Maybe you need to travel and haul home from a cheaper place. or use a mixed grass/legume hay?
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06/25/11, 06:53 PM
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Yup - here a 100 # bale is around $16.75. Used to be about $9.00 for a second cutting. Buy a lot & its much cheaper - used to have free delivery over 10 bales - no more.
I've heard from a couple sources that it's being shipped to.......Afganastan!
Anyone know if that's true?
If it is, .... how political at our expense.
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06/25/11, 07:24 PM
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My prices were for a 40-50 pound bale. Shipping fodder across the oceans to a third world country can't be a common or large business. If its $16 in Oregon it'd be $160 in Afghanistan. Who'd be buying it?
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Not sure about Afghanistan. There's quite a bit leaving Ontario for Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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I just paid $4.00 per bale from a local farmer's first cut of Timothy. Alfalfa bales are 5-6 dollars around town. We are in south central KY.
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06/25/11, 07:54 PM
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Right around here Alfafa hay, 2nd cutting was going for $4.00 a bale. That was last year though, not sure what the going price is right now. Had alot of rain & if that keeps up it will be hard for folks to get hay cut & baled & then the prices will be much higher for sure.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross
My prices were for a 40-50 pound bale. Shipping fodder across the oceans to a third world country can't be a common or large business. If its $16 in Oregon it'd be $160 in Afghanistan. Who'd be buying it?
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If it is going to Afghanistan then you can look to a yank to see who's paying for that...
If you rebuild it, they will come (without bombs), right...
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Last edited by NewGround; 06/25/11 at 08:42 PM.
Reason: Later noted Ross is from Ontario so had to change who's paying for it...
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06/25/11, 09:06 PM
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Hey! I've been to Afghanistan, and edible food is hard to find there. I would have gladly bought a bale of alfalfa!
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06/25/11, 09:11 PM
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I can't think of a reason in the world to pay that much for hay. Whatever you are feeding are spoiled. Feed something else.
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06/26/11, 12:12 AM
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I paid $17/bale (110-125 lb. bales) for top-quality alfalfa at the feed store recently after I ran out of my winter supply of hay. I do feed top-quality alfalfa to my dairy goats as they are high producing and need good feed. Right now, though, they are on pasture, which is a mix of alfalfa and grass, and they are doing fine. I hope the pasture holds out.
And it would be helpful if people would mention the size bales they are talking about. We can't even get the small two-string bales here -- I wish we could.
Oh, and grass hay, or mixed grass/alfalfa costs just about the same as the good alfalfa here.
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Can't afford alfalfa hay.....and what I get local is not very good anyways. Add to the fact the goats dig through it & waste a bunch, its not worth it for me to buy alfalfa hay.
BUT my dairy girls NEED alfalfa in some form, so I buy Standlee Brand Alfalfa pellets from TSC for $7.99 per 40lb bag. Great quality, good price, zero waste 
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Another vote for the Standlee pellets, but I pay $8.99. All good, no waste.
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Twelve hundred pound bale - 50 dollars.(second cutting).
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We bale about 30,000 bales a year and sell it all, could sell more if had it. 60# bale…alfalfa and alfalfa/grass mix…1st -4th cutting all same price. 3.50 a bale and 25 cents a bale more if load on wagon.
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335 a ton for alfalfa is not worth it by any stretch of the imagination
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I don't believe it. The fields are FULL of nice alfalfa, first cuttings have already been completed, and fuel prices are down. If it's up, it's just greedy hay sellers. The price of Standlee pellets have been stable for a year. I would recommend you go to pellets - no waste, and apparently, a lot less greed. Besides that, the quality is always consistent, not like a lot of alfalfa that turns to dust when you open the bale.
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06/26/11, 12:05 PM
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I put up 160 acres of grass hay (timothry, orchard, pasture grass). This year the price is all over from $6 to $10 a bale. Mine is all sold for $7.00, if they take a truck load (60,000 lbs) and $8.00 if by the bale. Export alfalfa and timothy is going some where around $275.00 a ton. In this part of Eastern Washington State all of the hay is irrigated.
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06/26/11, 01:23 PM
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Many farmers in this area plowed up the hay ground and planted corn and beans.Hay could be scarce this winter.
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06/26/11, 01:35 PM
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$200 a ton average price here. I can't imagine buying by the bale unless it's round or large squares. Too much diversity in bale weight/size. I'll buy 20+ ton a year, all at once or a few ton per cutting depending on need.
Lots of hay here was contracted to Japan. Allot is contracted to dairies. It's very difficult to find at a decent price. Two years ago it was almost impossible to find at any price. It's not much better now.
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