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We're in an other drought situation up here, I checked local hay avalabillity in a 300 ml radius.
2 and 3 yr old hay asking price between 35 and 55 dollar per round bale 1000 to 1300 lbs,this yrs hay 60 to 90 bucks/bale depending on quality FOB.Transport comes on top.
local timothee plant wants $35 a ton for the reject(they used to burn it cause it is mostly rotten outside layers and weed plugs and riddled with twine and plastic).
I know the law of supply and demand,but this sounds ridiculous.
Farmers gauging farmers.
 
That is pretty cheap really. Only $70-$100/ton. Going at auction here for $75-$250/ton. You have any idea what it costs to make a ton these days?
 
I don't know what a round bale is going for, but 4 to 5 for a small square is common here.
 
I agrees hay prices are out of hand already. I'm in Southern Minnesota. It has been extremely dry in my county. I believe I have received 1.5" now since the first week of June of 2009. My first crop hay was awesome. My second crop was horrible! Less than half bales per acre than first cutting. I don't expect a third cutting unless it rains an awful lot for days here. Everyone around me is cutting ditches, dry sloughs, waterways, or whatever they can find. Hopefully you find enough hay. Good luck.
Kow Farmer
 
I missed the prices for this year's hay. But that is the going rate for our area. $180/ton isn't excessive. Probably average $150/ton at the auctions but that is for good to excellent quality. Droughts will cause high prices!
 
The price of hay is going up around here because nobody can make any hay this year it has rained all summer. I did my first a month late I just made some good second today it has been down for 4 days it just won't dry. it is the only good hay i made all year. back in july I was quoted $45 for 800 to 1000 lb bales out of the field nothing fancy.
 
Send a truck.

Around here supplies of hay are adequate if quality isnt a concern. Good quality hay is bringing a fair price but junk hay is cheap. We had a good July to put up hay, unfortunately that means weedy and over ripe. Also a good June for haymaking if you didnt mind getting it rained on once before baling.

I'm holding price from last year, 35 for barn stored 4x4.5's of grass hay, and 50 for alfalfa mix. Squares 5.00 for grass mix and 6.00 for alfalfa mix. So far my sales are running about normal. I'm thinking when the last cutting is in we will see some price increases, particularly when hay starts shipping out of state. For now though I'd love to send a few hundred rolls of barn stored grass mix to a new home.
 
What do you think the rice shhould be? When the prise was way down did you give extra because it was too cheap? Have you hired 4 or 5 people to put bales in the barn lately? The high fertilizer prices,twine,labor,& parts effect those raising hay the same as the row crop people,but with no set market,no crop ins.& alot more labor & weather risk.Sorry for rant,but when hay was 40/t no one gave extra.
 
Well now you could buy all the equipment find a piece of land (buy or rent or free) spend the money on seed to plant and to get it established and then spend the money on fertilizer every year and fuel and labor and parts and battle the weather to make your own hay.

Then tell us how much you think is too much for selling it.
 
Average custom work price for cutting, raking and rolling round bales here is about $20 per roll.
 
Ok,Hay around here used to be about 20 to 30 buck a bale for good hay.
I dont know how in the world one can make a buck let alone break even feeding beef cows if hay sells for $90 or more.
Up where I am(peace country/Alberta)we winter feed an average of 7 months.It takes 7 rounds of hay per cow to get them trough the winter.
Thats $700 per cow,the calf wont bring that most times.
Never mind all other costs.

How do you pensil this out to make ends meet,even if one has to buy only half the hay needed + hay for the 2.5 extra months till winter feeding starts cause there aint any grazing left right now. I got only 2" of rain since last year july.

Time to sell the herd i guess.
 
Nobody seems to think about the hay grower when cattle prices are up and hay prices are down. Everything has a market value,... sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I sold alfalfa big rounds last year for $90.00 a ton,... and hope to do at least that good this year. (but I ain't gonna whine if I don't.)
 
Two years ago we had a real hard Easter freeze that knocked the first cutting of all the hay down to about a third of what is should of been, then a dry summer that made for no second cutting of anything. I mowed, raked and baled about 3 miles of water ways and diversion ditched on a neighbor's place, baled up all the corn stalks I could, ect,,, People around here were giveing $100 for anything that looked like a bale of good hay, $75 for rolled up ceder trees off CRP ground. I was pretty worried about it, then I asked a buddy of mine if he had enough hay he said "sure, be a little short on cows come May but I will have hay." If you can't pencil out local hay, best advise I can give is cull like you haven't culled in years (I don't care how cute the wife thinks she is, what kinda calf did she raise?), roll corn stalks and then book soy hulls now if hay is that high now hulls will double about the first of the year and you can keep cows looking pretty good with them and corn stalks.

Good luck, you can make it we did here.

Dave
 
Doubtful if I will get 20 per round bale , And hope to get $3 for fine quality Orchard grass /timothy/clover /alfalfa mix ,here in Southern IN
 
Hay prices varry with regional supply... I sold about 85 tons of 1st crop (too mature for my milk cows, but good beef hay) in 1700+ lb rounds for $40/bale, and was glad to get it sold. Have 20+ acres of heavy clover 2nd crop that I need to get cut and rolled up - may sell that too. Just hard to get the weather to dry it. Also working on some nice 3rd crop, but won't be selling any of that.
 
Last year I couldn't produce enough at $180 a ton this year I can't give it away. That's the way farming is one year you're rolling in the dough the next you're rolling in your left over hay.
Walt
 
$ 90 a ton!? man you got reamed!!!
i paid $140 a ton and was glad to get it. i had to haul it home too. to best part about it only 1 1/2
miles from home. i'm glad i bought a heat houses for the 730 diesel.
with the ice and packed snow on roads i think massey 333 would have let me down.
 
I considered $90.00/ton a fair price for this area (NW Kansas), and that price was at the edge of the field. The buyer brought over his tractor to load the bales on his semi.
He loaded and hauled 9 semi-loads, and furnished weigh-slips with his payment.
I was satisfied, and hope to do business with him again this year.

Could I have got more then $90.00 a ton,... maybe,... but I thought the price was fair under the circumstances.
 
In the second year of the drought in north Tx, 2006, we got 3 big rounds off our 7.5 acre hayfield and that was it for the whole year.

The supplier I had been buying from for over 4 yrs ran completely out, even tried shipping in from several states away, but that market dried up too. Had to get hay at the local feed store, $125 per 5x4 round. I stretched it as far as I could, but a round would only last 10 days to 2 wks max. So I know about sky high hay prices.
 
How dare you hint that someone may be gouging prices ........:shock: :shock:

I just paid 26 euro for round bails (4x5 and 350-400kg) stored under roof until and as I need them and picked up by me. Prices are a whole lot higher here for equipment, seed, etc. Fuel is between $8 and $9 a gallon and there is a 19% sales tax. When there is a shortage, the majority of folks sell less hay for the same price and have steady customers. Someone tries to get fat by taking advantage of someones misfortune shows themselves for what they are and spend the good years choking on their own hay that noone will buy.
Local guy baled up some small bales that may have weighed 20 pounds and put them in the paper. Wife called about them and he said 2.20 euro a bale. Wife said it was a little high and he told her to start making her own hay. I bought about 200 bales between 40 and 50 pounds of the same mix and within 200 meters of where he baled his for 1 euro each loaded on the wagon w/ my help. Kind of a small community here and that ole boy won't need to bother baling hay again unless he wants to eat it himself.

When there is a real crisis, folks get together and truck it from the former East countries and still get it (including transport) at reasonable local prices.

To each their own though........

Good Luck,

Dave
 
Try Missouri.Everybody hollering for 25-35 dollars for big 5x6 bales net and twine wrapped,and there is a lot of hay.I sold out at $20 per bale and he took it all.Money in my hand is better than money stacked in a pile outside and taking up barn space I need for winter.
 
Local (North Central Texas)custom baler folks here are charging 22.50 per 4 X 5 round bale. Cut, raked, baled, left in your field. To the baling charges when you add fertlize, weed spray, aerating, hauling out of the field,etc you have about 40 dollars per bale tied up in it. Some custom balers around here will bale it on the halves, leaving you half where it rolls out of the baler, meaning they would hav to sell at 45 dollars to get their normal baling charges. Not much money in it here. Tom
 
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