I picked up "pasture grass" for $5/~60 lb super clean bale at the farm around May 6th. Earliest my supplier had ever cut. That was $1 more than last year but still not bad. His hay is super clean. He sells his small bales off of the field, never putting any up.
Then the spigot turned off for awhile before returning big time. The Amish around me have gotten several cuttings in the last month or so with the heat and moisture.
One thing I see though is a lot of horrible fields that have been left go. We have an issue with Johnson grass (see Mr Johnson's Grass). Not sure if people consider it not worth putting up anymore or what?
Glad that I only have four horses left, all seniors. I used to feed Triple Crown Senior but that has gotten to 31 and change at Tractor Supply. I switched to a locally processed (Louisville) blended senior for 21 and change. The horses seem fine, fat, not dumb and happy.
When I run out of my grass hay this fall and switch to Alfalfa/Orchard for the winter I guess that it will cost more than the $7/bale I had been paying for a few years.