2012 Hay Harvest

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Can I have some examples of what people are paying for hay. Im using about 20 bales a month and paying £4/bale at the moment, is this alot for hay thats ok. I have made some hay that would be fit for racehorses, best hay ive ever made and wondered what I should be charging for that as it is probably to good for the liveries as most soak it?
 
£4 is about right a local farm i help out on got 4x the volume of bales off the same acre's as last year due to the weather working in favour for grass

Hay should be soaked to keep the dust down and help with ya horses respiratory system good hay or not
 
I just rang my usual farm supplier this morning, their price has gone up this year to £4.50 a bale (delivered) it was £4 last year, good quality meadow hay.
 
what hay harvest....we have 40 acres and the only def ok (ie not rained on) stuff we managed to get in between the weather was 40 small bales <cries>

If the hay is good, this year its worth a lot.
 
lachlanandmarcus said:
what hay harvest....we have 40 acres and the only def ok (ie not rained on) stuff we managed to get in between the weather was 40 small bales <cries>

If the hay is good, this year its worth a lot.
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it maybe dire where you are but down in newcastle they managed 400 heston bales of an area that they would normally get 100 off

at a local farm sale i attended last week 73 heston bales of fairly good hay sold for £3.50 a bale...... and 130 heston bales of good straw sold for £4 a bale...

guess the market it just all over the place
 
The trouble a lot of people had this year was getting the cut at the right time due to the weather, in Suffolk grass was laying down and dying off in a lot of places before it could be cut and first cut was getting on for two months later than usual due to the rain. As it's then been dry since then we are unlikely to get a decent second crop for haylage despite the bumper first one. We were lucky that we got about 75% cut whilst the grass was still great and full of nutrients, but we also bit the bullet and cut the other 25% before the ideal time as the grass had started to die off and it kept raining :mad:. We will use that for the cattle! I think there will be plenty around and not too expensive pre christmas but its finding the better quality stuff with nutritional value that could prove harder. Small bales of average stuff were selling off the fields round here for £3 a bale collected but most feed places are advertising bales between £5-6.50 already. I think the prices will go up, especially haylage to reflect a poor/non existant second crop so best stock up now if poss. Phew, just realised how long that post is - sorry!
 
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