the price of hay

[fowler_chick]

just wondering how much every one who buys hay is paying for it?....i have a contract to buy 8 1100 pounds round bales for $ 40.00 each but just found out that's there 2 year old bales.....i just canceld a hay contract because the bales where way older then he said...i'm in the misted of canceling this contract too....just wondering what people are paying for there hay?

 

[sparkles2307]

35.00 for a round bale, not sure of the weight, but ya know, one of those standard round bales. 25-30 for CRP round bales depending on the quality of the grass. (Crop Reserve Program). DH bales for the neighbor for 1/3 of his hay crop since DH went all retard on me and tore out our 20 acres of alfalfa last year...yeah cause 28 angus can feed themselves for free all winter...

 

[gritsar]

Gee, we only buy it from a neighbor for the nestboxes. We pay $3 a square bale. I know it's $6 a square bale at the farmer's co-op. Sorry, I don't know what round bales are going for. I imagine it will be lower this year because they have had a good year for hay.

 

[toletiquesbysam]

$65 for large bale broam grass

 

[fowler_chick]

sparkles2307 a aflafa field is only good for 5 to 7 years, then has to be ripped out and replanted, our neighbour did that last year except this year they went with corn for a year and then will replant in in aflafa next year...my husband has be promising to plant 6 acres of pm8 grass for my horses for years!!! (if i held my breath on that promis i'd be dead by now) .

 

[AkTomboy]

$11-$15 per 80# square bale $80-$210 per round here

 

[Double-T-Family-Farm]

we pay $2.25 for small pure alfalfa bales here

 

[mekasmom]

I pay $35 for the big rounds, and $2 for small square bales. I use grass hay for the goats in small square bales, but they sell alfalfa at the same price.

Just wanted to add- I have seen old hay at auctions go for $20-30 a big bale and less than a dollar a bale for the small ones.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

$25 per round bale

 

[Sillystunt]

5 for a bale of hay