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

[freemotion]

I just paid $7 and had to go get it and haul it myself. :/

 

[Roll farms]

He charged us 20$ to help unload / stack it. Well worth it!

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

Man i would pee my pants if i could find good/great hay for 3.50 a bale..im lucky to find all right hay for 15.00 bucks a bale........ shesh i need to move to a cheaper state!!!!

 

[Roll farms]

And this is probably 90% nice alfalfa, since w/ the semi-draught we had in July / August, the grass didn't grow much...but the alfalfa did well / is testing high for protein levels around here.

 

[KinderKorner]

I pay $3.5 for alfalfa/grass mix sq bales. Probably 30 or 40#. $4 for like 50 or 60# alfala. And I'm paying $20 for grass round bales that are probably 600#

 

[Island Creek Farm]

Geez...in Alabama we are paying $40 for a 900# roll of horse quality bermuda (grass) hay, alfalfa can't be grown here...well, UGA alfalfa can, but it shatters pretty much when they cut it. Good for horses, but terrible for goats and $9/bale. I got perennial peanut hay for $8.50 a bale but have to drive 2 hours to get it. Alfalfa cubes went from $10.50/50# bag to $14.50/50# bag though

 

[ChksontheRun]

I just got my winters worth--50 40#square bales of orchard grass/alfalfa for $7.oo a bale. And I felt very blessed to have found it for that price. My BIL got grass hay for his horses for $4.oo but my goats would not touch it with a 10 foot pole. Choosey little buggers.

 

[RainySunday]

We just got a group deal with 4H and I got 2nd cut alfalfa (100lb bales) for $10.50/bale and 2nd cut orchard grass (103lb bales) for $13.75. We got enough to get us through winter and spring... maybe into summer, we'll see.

Before that, we were paying $14-18/bale for 60ish lb bales of crummy 1st cut alf, and grass was about the same price. You can find local grass from some farms for more like $6/bale, but they are really light, and not such good quality.

So, we got a good deal, and it looks great. But hay prices in WA, especially W. WA, are bad, really bad. And we've had such a weird growing season this year, they are predicting big shortages and insane prices, hence the stocking up ahead of time.

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

I am in Westwrn Washington and am crying my eyes out over hay prices.... Just got 2 nd cut Alfalfa tonight 17.00 a bale 103 to 107 lb bales...... I may have to down size... Grain prices are up as well, i have really heavy milkers... they burn thur the feed....

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Just scored 20 bales of goat hay(clover, alfalfa, canarygrass, and timothy mix) for only $60($3/good sized bale)!!! This farm's mulch hay is even cheaper than that!! Going to pack the barn loft as full as possible for winter feed & bedding!