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01/09/12, 03:36 PM
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Alfalfa bales prices
Alfalfa bales go for $23/bale around here....can you believe that? Used to go for around $4/$5 each not long ago.
What's the price by you??
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01/09/12, 03:42 PM
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I quit buying it for goats. Too much waste for that price. If I could get it in the field from the ONE producer here, it was $10 last year. If I got it from the feed store, it had been imported from Arizona and was $18. I haven't even called this year.
Alfalfa pellets work for me.
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01/09/12, 04:01 PM
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We're looking at about $15 a bales here at the feed store. I priced checked that just last week. You can get much better deals from local folks though, and I think a lot of the bales at the feed store will be discounted come spring.
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01/09/12, 04:16 PM
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I saw some advertised at $4/ 50lb
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01/09/12, 04:20 PM
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beef grade $3.00
dairy grade $6.50
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01/09/12, 04:21 PM
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I get mine for $6
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01/09/12, 04:34 PM
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To clarify, what sized bales are we talking about? I was thinking 100 lb bales, which are $15 at my feed store and about 5-8 from the farmer.
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01/09/12, 04:34 PM
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ok, then they want to rip us off here.
Anyone in NM?
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01/09/12, 06:46 PM
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These are 80# for $23. rip off city!
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01/09/12, 06:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by New Mexican
These are 80# for $23. rip off city!
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I don't think it's a rip off so much as supply and demand. There is going to be less of the stuff in your area and so prices will be higher. Around here we don't use alfalfa as much so the price is a little higher as well.
I can get decent grass haylage for cheap here, plus have green grass year round.
Grass haylage is about 30-40 for 1100lbs. If you manage the pasture right in this area that's a decent supplement for the winter months.
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01/09/12, 08:55 PM
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And here I was whining about paying $4 for 75# second cut, this past summer.
Wish I had filled my barn. I purchased it for the sheep, but maybe i should sell the sheep and just resell the hay. 
I don't know how anyone handles $10+ per bale.
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01/10/12, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by New Mexican
These are 80# for $23. rip off city!
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A couple years ago, I paid $25/50# bales. Now I get kudzu hay for $4/bale. It works just as well.
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01/10/12, 10:05 AM
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usually from 4 to 6 / 40/50 lb around here but during the drought a few years ago it was 10.
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01/10/12, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by New Mexican
ok, then they want to rip us off here.
Anyone in NM?
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It is not a rip off in most cases. There is a drought going on in a large part of the county, and hauling hay and making hay is more expensive as the price of oil goes up. Our DD lives NW of Houston. She would have had over $8.00 a bale in alfalfa if we had given it to her and she had it hauled by the semi load. That's not a rip off--that's the fact.
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01/10/12, 11:35 AM
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I paid 18$ last year for one big bale (80#). While it was beautiful hay, bright green with nothing else mixed in, it was the only one I bought. I just can't afford it. If I could find 50# bales in the 6-7$ range I would but it. Now I just rely on our homegrown mixed grass hay : (
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01/10/12, 11:50 AM
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2.50 - 3.00 a small square here
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01/10/12, 12:29 PM
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50# alfalfa-13-15 at feed stores
8-12 off the trucks bringing it in from other states if bought in bulk.
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01/10/12, 12:44 PM
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In 2009/2010 we lived in Moriarty, NM outside Albuquerque. We paid 5.50 a bale for 70-80 lb bales, delivered and stacked.
Alfalfa is actually the cheap hay where we were. Easier to grow in the irrigated desert. The same size bale of grass hay was 11 bucks.
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01/10/12, 01:52 PM
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Last year it was $10/small bale, delivered and the guy helped with stacking. This year it is $18 delivered - and it doesn't look as good as last year's either. With the local droughts we are lucky to find anything at any sort of price.
Mary
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01/10/12, 01:53 PM
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Last year California did not plant the amount of alfalfa that they normally plant which caused prices to go way up.
This year there is a shortage of water so far and that too is a problem. The fish ang game people are making noises about farmers taking too much water to irrigate.
So unless there is a return to normal water, I think it will be worse for the rest of this year,
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