Anyone else having problems getting hay?

I'd love to get last year's hay for $5. I just paid $7/bale and felt lucky.

Here in Iowa we had a late first cutting and who knows about a 2nd cutting. I'm lucky that I helped a friend bale his so I got a good price. $3.50 a bale is good by me. I put up a couple hundred bales and locked in at least 50 more at that price.

We have hay here in NW MO, between $3 and $3.50 a bale for alfalfa mix (unless you go to this one guy who grows for picky horse owners, and he gets over $5 a small bale).

That reminds me that I need to contact the gal up the road to get some hay in this week.

We feed alfalfa pellets in addition to hay, and are pleased with the results.

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Everything I am finding out here is between 7 and 9 dollars a bale and that is for sm square bales of prairie hay.

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Ive been looking at the CL Adds in my area as soon as hay is listed it is gone and sells for on average $4 a small bale the large bales look like there averaging of at $45 dollars. Going south of me is no hay and if it does get listed its over $5. But if i can travel north 2 hours i can get it for $3 a bale.
Both guys i talked to the other day did not have any extra hay. So today im going and buying some prairie hay from a feed store for $5 a bale at least this hay is fresh. I really hope next yr is better i had wanted to experiment and buy a couple of different kinds and let my goats tell me which one they liked.