Hay Prices?!?!?! What are you paying?

[Melissa'sDreamFarm]

We pay and have been paying for a bale.....

$3.50 for orchard grass mix
$5.00 for Good bermuda horse hay (which I won't buy due to horse colic)
$10.75 for alfalfa/orchard mix
$12.00 for alfalfa

In the south, they do not grow alfalfa. It is too wet to cure, so people truck it in from other states. It took many years for me to figure this out. So this year we are going to find the closest person selling alfalfa (out of state) and get my truck driver friend to pick up some on one of his trips back home. I just cut out a middle man, this is much cheaper for us. Some people in Kentucky sell it for $8 a bale.

 

[chandasue]

Wowser! I'm so lucky. The most I've ever seen nice alfalfa go for is $3.50 a small bale, works out to be even cheaper if you can store the big rounds.

 

[Araylee]

$14/bale for a 60/70 lb bale of alfalfa last spring. (feed store prices=HWY robbery!) $120/ton for third cutting alfalfa last fall. This spring first cutting alfalfa is $100/ton. (ours IS locally grown.) I've seen it go as high as $200/ton for premium third cutting certified organic weed free...and I've seen weedy rained on half orchard grass for 45-60/ton.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Of course it has a lot to do with where you are... I'm in northern central NY

 

[babsbag]

In No. CA I pay 11.00- 13.00 for alfalfa, 13.50 for alfalfa/grass and 9.00 for wheat. I only feed the wheat to my buck and wether. The ladies get straight alfalfa. The bales are square, about 100#. While we do have to pay a lot we never have trouble finding it, no matter what time of year it is. I can buy smaller bales of alfalfa from local growers for about 7.00, but the quality is not as good.

Everything in CA is expensive, so why not the hay too?

 

[redtailgal]

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[julieq]

We paid 125.00 per ton for second and third cutting alfalfa last fall. Unfortunately we didn't purchase enough and now we're having a hard time finding more to get us through until July when the second cutting is available. Friends are telling us if you can find hay it'll run 200.00 per ton. We're most likely going to have to raise the prices on our kids this year to cover the increase. :/

 

[Georgiamainers]

In Maine we're paying $4 a bail for a grass mix. Alfalfa is hard to come by.

 

[scrambledmess]

I just bought grass/alfalfa mix for $3.50 a bale. It was originally $3, but he charged me an extra 50 cents a bale to deliver. I thought that was a bit much, but now we have a truck so we can go get it ourself next time.

 

[stano40]

I'm in southern Maine and I'm seeing $4.00 to $6.50 for horse hay, 1st cutting mix.

I've bought a round bale close to 1,000 lbs for $40.00, but I had to go 2 hrs. away for it in Maine.

bob