Hay prices

[rattler]

I was just wondering how the price of hay was varaing around the country.I found 4x4 rolls for $20 a roll.My wife found some that had got wet one time for fifteen.Saw a load head toward Florida yesterday that was the best looking hay I have seen this year dont know how much it sold for the hay lady dident sat and i dident ask.
rattler

 

[RAWCJW]

I bought 6x5 rollsmix grass for $30-32.50 a roll bought some yr old for $25.00 a roll. Clover is $40. alfalfa $45. Doesn't seem to be alot for sale though.

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

We just got our first partial delivery of 5 x 5 round bales of VERY GOOD LOOKING bermuda that is horse quality (our local supplier only grows quality hay, fertilized, irrigated, weed free). Price was $75. a bale delivered (we're about 3 miles from hay farm). This same hay was also being sold at a feed store? in Amarillo for $107. for a smaller 4 x 5 ?, 1000# bale (according to our hay guy). My guess is that these bales we got are about 1500# or so.

 

[stocky]

I bought 4x6 (full 6 feet, delivered) mixed grass and clover and paid 22 dollars per bale for it. You can buy hay that has been wet for 15. That is about 7 dollars higher than most years and I think it will get cheaper because there is a large second cutting being cut right now, but as dry as it is in the south and west, I decided to go ahead and buy 800 bales now, just in case it doesnt rain again. Around here, we got about 1/2 of the normal hay crop in the early first cutting. There is a second cutting that we normally dont get right now, and it is running real good.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Going for 80 bucks a roll here if someone will sell it to you.
I wouldn't sell a bale myself, just been to dry to chance it.
I would give it to a neighbor first if they ran short.

 

[endebt]

Got 50 bales delivered from Mexia Friday a week a go. It cost 52.00 a bale and happy to get it. That was all that was available. I PM Bullpeddler about getting some alfafa 4x4x8 spuare bales. Hope to get them for under or alittle better than $100. a bale with $600.00 deliver charge. A guy has to hope.

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

Precious little, if any, hay to be had in my area this year. Hoping for a wet late summer & fall. Looks like CB, Lilly and a few of you other east Texas folks caught some relief today and last night. Zippo down here. Here's an illustration of why there is likely to be an extrmely tight hay and forage situation in Texas for a good while:

http://www.txwin.net/Monitoring/Meteoro ... t/pdsi.htm

 

[rattler]

In this area the firstcutting is just now winding up.Talked to the hay lady again today she said all of here first was already gone.We are not in bad shape drought wise but if we don,t get rain soon the second cutting will be thin.Think everebody needs rain soon. guess all we can do is Hope and Pray.Best of luck .
rattler

 

[mnmtranching]

I buy quite a lot of hay all by the ton weighed on trucks. You know there is so much difference in weight of bales. 4x4.5x5 whatever. balers pack so much differently.

mnmt

 

[NorCalFarms]

57.4 TDN Alfalfa with 22.9% Protein $145, in one ton bales.

Straight grass in 3 tie bales, light 100lb feed store bales, $135 ton.

Clean grass/alfalfa mix, light 3 tie bales $145 ton.

No round bales here so I can't give you those for comparision. Haven't made any stock (beef) cow hay yet this year so I don't know what it will bring, I am hearing bad prices like $80-90/ton. Last year we were getting 110-120.

 

[Bez?]

Going for 80 bucks a roll here if someone will sell it to you.
I wouldn't sell a bale myself, just been to dry to chance it.
I would give it to a neighbor first if they ran short.

CB

I have been preaching ever since I arrived on this board. Get extra hay and keep it.

If there is no hay close by - go and buy straw - the price difference can often allow some long distance trucking.

Cows prefer it when it is at least two years old. Lots of folks seem to have it lying around in old piles and never feed it out or use it. Even if you have to go a couple hundred miles it is better than breaking the bank on expensive hay.

I have paid as much as $107.50 per round bale - OF STRAW!

I have the receipts to prove it.

No one ever seems to notice when I bring this up. It is like howling into the wind.

Hay keeps for bloody years and years - and cows will eat it if they get hungry.

Those who worry about hay quality when there is a real shortage have too much money or not enough drought in their area yet.

In a true drought the rule is survival - NOT - weight gain and body condition numbers.

I rarely sell hay - I give it away to neighbours when it is required and if I have it. Rule is - me first and then you if I can spare it. Comes back to me in spades.

There will be some bitter neighbours if they are forced to buy at high prices from folks living just down the road - I know - I lived it for two years.

Back to the topic:

Hay is now at the 30 buck mark here for a 5 footer. And likely to go down as we are buried in the good stuff.

Bez?

 

[milesvb]

Large rounds just hit $50 here. That's from one of the few operations that has any to sell.

 

[Tod Dague]

Large rounds just hit $50 here. That's from one of the few operations that has any to sell.

Sounds to me like you are surrounded by some pretty good folks. ;-) Everything is around the $70 mark here unless you can find some good ol' boys that will sell you a good deal.

 

[Tod Dague]

Going for 80 bucks a roll here if someone will sell it to you.
I wouldn't sell a bale myself, just been to dry to chance it.
I would give it to a neighbor first if they ran short.

CB

I have been preaching ever since I arrived on this board. Get extra hay and keep it.

If there is no hay close by - go and buy straw - the price difference can often allow some long distance trucking.

Cows prefer it when it is at least two years old. Lots of folks seem to have it lying around in old piles and never feed it out or use it. Even if you have to go a couple hundred miles it is better than breaking the bank on expensive hay.

I have paid as much as $107.50 per round bale - OF STRAW!

I have the receipts to prove it.

No one ever seems to notice when I bring this up. It is like howling into the wind.

Hay keeps for bloody years and years - and cows will eat it if they get hungry.

Those who worry about hay quality when there is a real shortage have too much money or not enough drought in their area yet.

In a true drought the rule is survival - NOT - weight gain and body condition numbers.

I rarely sell hay - I give it away to neighbours when it is required and if I have it. Rule is - me first and then you if I can spare it. Comes back to me in spades.

There will be some bitter neighbours if they are forced to buy at high prices from folks living just down the road - I know - I lived it for two years.

Back to the topic:

Hay is now at the 30 buck mark here for a 5 footer. And likely to go down as we are buried in the good stuff.

Bez?

Ground cotton seed burrs were running $65 / ton about twice what they normally run. A friend of mine will be feeding them this year.

 

[Stepper]

Is it possiable to make any profit off of cattle paying up wards of $30 say for a 4 x 5 mixed grass round bail ? I can not even imagine how it would even be worth someones time and effort to mess with cattle when they are having to pay $60 and $80 dollars a bail and i am assuming that is for just a descent mixed grass 4 x 5 or 5 x 5 bail ?

Is the reason people are paying these kind of prices for hay tring to ride the drought out ?

 

[Nowland Farms]

I'll have some 4'5" x4' of MaxQ Fescue for sale for around $30 a bale. Might even have some costal for sale if we ever get a rain. Hay here in Alabama is going for around $25. I have several small time horse folks who buy my hay. I sold out this spring and have even sold a few of this years cuttings.

 

[Nowland Farms]

I'll have some 4'5" x4' of MaxQ Fescue for sale for around $30 a bale. Might even have some costal for sale if we ever get a rain. Hay here in Alabama is going for around $25. I have several small time horse folks who buy my hay. I sold out this spring and have even sold a few of this years cuttings.

 

[alabama]

Nowland Farms. You might better keep enough hay for you insteed of selling it all. It looks to be a very dry year.

 

[Campground Cattle]

It is bad in this neck of the woods hanging on to all I have.
We may get lucky as we recived 3 1/2 inches this weekend that will make some hay, we are still not out of this drought.
I am a part timer and lucky I have my own hay equipment and fields, the big operations are not selling hay this year. Drought and Rita ate up all the surplus.

 

[Nowland Farms]

Alabama,

Without a doubt, my "ladies" come 1st, anyone else's horses come last.

The best thing about fescue in Alabama is that it usually gets plenty of rain in the Feb - May timeframe when it grows and matures. About the time the fescue matures and we get it cut for hay, we have the potential to enter into a dry spell, like this year. I have enough hay in barn now for me for this and next years use.