What are you paying for feed and hay?

[DaveM]

I only have several head of cattle and buy sweet feed by the hundred pound sack. I'm paying close to $16/100lb for 16% protein. Good, square bales go for $3.50 a bale in Northern Pennsylvania. What are you all paying?

 

[kenny thomas]

For 16% I give $200 ($10/100) delivered to my barn. But it is bulk and is augered into my 5 ton feed bin. The feed bin is the best investment i have made in years.
I bought some excellent square bales this fall for 3.10 each delivered and put into the loft of my barn.

 

[Bigfoot]

I'm $185 a ton on feed. It's bulk delivery. Square baled hay is nonexistent. Some is shipped in to the hay auction, but goes for outrageous prices.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

330- 400$/ton 16% grain

150/ton feeder hay
230-280 $/ ton 24 % supreme alfalfa export quality

 

[tom4018]

I'm $185 a ton on feed. It's bulk delivery. Square baled hay is nonexistent. Some is shipped in to the hay auction, but goes for outrageous prices.

Who you buying from? I am paying $204 for a 16% feed. See some hay here for $30 a roll and some squares starting $3.00.

 

[Bigfoot]

I'm $185 a ton on feed. It's bulk delivery. Square baled hay is nonexistent. Some is shipped in to the hay auction, but goes for outrageous prices.

Who you buying from? I am paying $204 for a 16% feed. See some hay here for $30 a roll and some squares starting $3.00.

Locally, a triple third mix.

 

[skyhightree1]

sweet feed for me is 7 bucks a 50lb bag. square bales 5.00 a bale here if you don't want 50% weeds

 

[pricefarm]

I grow my corn but the DDGS I buy to mix in is around 175$ a ton in bulk delivered. I haven't seen much hay around for sale but what I have seen is anywhere from 30-50$ a roll some more. I second about the grain bin a lot nicer than handling all those sacks. And u can save some money getting it in bulk

 

[skyhightree1]

The only bulk you can buy here is ddgs and I just found that.

 

[TexasBred]

Bought some 20% breeder cubes last Monday. $9.60 per 50# bag. No idea what square bales of hay cost. I see round bales advertised in papers etc anywhere from $35 to $75 a roll depending on size and type of hay.

 

[papavillars]

Just had delivered some really nice round bales. He flat bed trailered them from Tyler. Charged me a $1.50 a mile and $25.00 a roll for 5 x 6 weed free coastal. He offered a semi load but I only bought a trailer load, big mistake. Tight really nice hay. When he arrived we unrolled one roll and completely weed free. Being cheap doesn't always save you money. Should have bought a semi load!

 

[BILL CLAYLAND]

12% steer feed 50# 8.60
ground ear corn 11.25 100cwt
hay large square cow hay 15.00

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

330- 400$/ton 16% grain

150/ton feeder hay
230-280 $/ ton 24 % supreme alfalfa export quality

That would be minimum prices for us over here on the "dry side," which is where Named'em buys most of his hay. I think you're buying "bigger" than we are, Scott, so you might be getting a better deal.

 

[inyati13]

I am in northeast Kentucky. It has a rich history in beef cattle. Just to name a couple, the Boyd's and Rocking P. Only 30 miles from the farm is the home place of Doug Parke. So lots of hay moves in and out of here. I can get square bales of grass/alfalfa hay but it will cost $5 per bale. I have been disappointed a couple of times with the quality. When it comes to round rolls, it will cost anywhere from $18 to $32 per roll. The important factor is you have to know weight and quality otherwise you are pizzing in the wind.

I need to look at doing better on my feed. I buy 10 50 pound bags at a time for a total of $55. This is 12 % protein mixed feed with crushed corn and pellets. So $220 per ton.

 

[jerry27150]

137 a ton for shell corn, guys can barely sell any hay here as we had a good hay crop & lots of grass left

 

[sim.-ang.king]

$185 per ton 14%, had to start mixing with pellet supplement again , and going off of current market value of corn, course the corn cost me about 3/4 market.
22% Cow feed was $260 a few weeks ago.
$15-$20 a 5x6 round bale grass or sudan.

 

[branguscowgirl]

Sure wish that we had hay prices and availability like most of you. I know horse people that pay $27 per 100 ld bale for a good orchard grass hay. I was paying $17 a bale for it until I found some local Sudan for $7. (They are smaller bales, but not half as small.)
$17 per bale for either grass, grass/alf, or just alfalfa is pretty standard here. And that's IF anyone has any left to sell. They tend to run out before spring.
I could probably get "cow hay" a tad cheaper. But I can't see the point in paying less if you are getting less nutritional value and have to feed twice as much.

It is a good distance to drive for me to get bulk grain in 1000 ld totes. And the price really didn't come out any better than buying 50 ld sacks at the feed store. (I only have a set of twins that get supplemented anyway, the rest just Sudan.)

 

[RoppFamilyFarm]

$450 ton for 16% custom mixed ration (Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Beet Pulp, Minerals Etc.) And thats cheap around here for the quality! Sometimes I pick up a Bag of 14% Sweet Feed for $9.99 if I'm in a pinch.

Grow my own Forage Fescue/Orchard Grass hay, and sell what I don't need for $180 ton (2 tie bales) and it flys out the door. People(horse people) say its too cheap for the quality

Anyone Feed Haylage/Baleage? Whats going price?