local hay prices ?

[buickanddeere]

What is hay going for around the country per lb in small squares, round bales and large squares ?

 

[smstonypoint]

Weekly hay prices are reported by the Ag. Marketing Service here: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&leftNav=MarketNewsAndTransportationData&page=LSMarketNewsPageHay.

Steve

 

[Tx Jim]

Good Coastal small sq bales $7-$9 good Coastal 4X5.5 rd bales $60-$80 down here in Texas

 

[Walkin Horse]

I looked at that site a couple of weeks ago and again just now. It is hard to read and understand for the average person. The one for Va anyway.

A friend of mine buys it buy the ton at market price. I'm paying $35 for fescue mix. The first load I hauled several weeks ago I took it to a scale and had it weighed. 17 bales averaged 687#. That comes out to $101.89 a ton. I don't know if that's good or not. Or how they judge quality or size. I have seen hay at $45 for 4x5s. I bought 40 extra bales figuring I could sell it in the spring if I don't need it.

 

[flusher]

What is hay going for around the country per lb in small squares, round bales and large squares ?

Three twine squares, 100-110 lb, $12/bale, forage mix

 

[ultrarunner]

$23 yesterday for the large bails for the horses.

 

[Texasmark]

Up here it varies considerably. Hard to get a good price for good hay when the junk sellers, and I mean junk sellers advertise $40 for a 5x6. Course they have a hard time trying to keep repeat buyers, but the price looks good and everybody thinks that's what it all ought to sell for. So my 5x4's which are half the volume ought to go for $20 according to them. Well guess again "suckers".

Mark

 

[japody]

$30 for 4x5 round bales delivered. I usually get about 200 rolls/year.

 

[MoMower]

$4-4.50, 40# small squares of Timothy/orchard mix is the norm here.

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[mjw357]

$4-4.50, 40# small squares of Timothy/orchard mix is the norm here.

About the same here, if we catch the local farmer when he is baling we can get 100 bales delivered for $4/bale. We can get rounds for $25, grass mix.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

4 x 5s $25-$35 on grass/ legume hay, I bought 100 out of the field for $22. Mixed grass/legume squares $3-$4, alfalfa squares $4-$6. Most of our 4x5 and 5x5s weight 800-1200lbs. The low grain/feed prices make the cheap/lower quality hay a lot more attractive for me. No big squares here locally. A very popular "3 way mix" dry cow feed is $200 ton delivered, equal parts gluten, cracked corn, and hulls.

 

[holeycow]

3 cents/lb

 

[sweettractors]

In central Ky, 40 lb grass Small squares $3 per bale and alfalfa $5-$7 per bale. 1500 lb grass rolls $30-40 and alfalfa rolls $70-$90. Ken Sweet

 

[MattLynch]

$3 per 40lb square, $25 4x5 round and $30 for 4x5 round silage is probably the average price in my area (NS) for good quality timothy/red clover mix or grass mix.

 

[MH8675309]

At Mondays sale we sold 50 LB bales of horse hay (high in alfalfa) for $5 a bale. There was lots of bleached out hay there but it still brought about $2.50 a bale on average. I got some 5x5 round bales of grass hay for $50 a bale delivered to my place. Most of our hay here in MI got rained on this year. Not counting last week when it was sunny all week there were 2 times this past summer where it was dry for 4 days straight.

 

[lutt]

60-70 # squares of bluestem or Bermuda is going for 4.00 picked up in the field. LUTT

 

[lucky001]

I have come to the conclusion that you can usually buy hay cheaper than you can produce it, if you can find decent hay. When you consider all the expenses including fertilizer, fuel, equipment costs, supplies etc. My first cutting was way off due to a dry spring and just counting the costs of fertilizer it cost me about $24 per roll (5 x 5.5). With all expenses it pushed it to closer to $50 a roll.

 

[ultrarunner]

At $24 a 3 wire bale without delivery it sure sounds like there is room for a modest margin...