Big bale haylage - what are you paying?

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My supplier is trying to hike up the price per big bale (good stuff, 250-300 kg bales) by an extra £5 (or more) a bale. (I get 3 trailer loads - about 100 bales - per delivery so I expect a good price!)

Anyone buying full loads who can give me an idea of price - and has your supplier put it up since - say - October (when mine put his up £2 a bale.)
 
£45 was £25 . think everyones jumping on the bandwagon. end of last winter was paying £65 . my supplier is very happy he tells me that he made treble the amount this year as he took on every spare field he could after last winter then he hiked his prices up end of october told everyone he was running out and sat back !;)
 
Mine are slightly smaller bales (220kg), and in previous years I have paid £20, and this year it is £30 delivered. I only have 6 or so delivered at a time, so not getting a 'big buyer' type discount
 
It seems haylage is cheaper than hay...is that right?

My farmer told me last night he is going to have buy big bale hay in at 70quid trade price, so no doubt looking at 90 to buy from him...thinking about trying to source haylage - can anyone in west kent/east surrey say how much it is right now? Xx
 
Had some in at £25 a bale in Oct/Nov, delivered, which was the same price as last year, apparently because we ordered a fair few. Will be needing some more in a month or so, not sure if price will have gone up.
 
Mine was £32.50 last year delivered even in the snow! But due to a poor harvest (he was 500 bales down on last year) it's £45 a bale. I can get it cheaper locally but I would have to collect and it's poorer quality and not worth the effort.

Trouble is that down South we had a dry summer so yeilds were down, but they still used the same amount of fertiliser, which is linked to oil prices and so is the wrap for the bales, so costs have risen and yeilds fallen.

Having said that my supplier set his prices at the end of the summer and has stuck to them, he is also only supplying regular clients so I know my supply is safe and I effectively pay by instalments as I only pay as he delivers so not too bad. With the fatties I have been mixing it with clean wheat straw with a good calcium balancer and they are doing very well on it and it helps keep the costs down a bit.
 
£34 for 220kg square bales. I only order 4 at a time and they are delivered and lugged into my feed room for me. It's the same price I was paying last year.

I could get cheaper stuff, but I can't stand the round bales where you have such a job getting it loose (these square ones come in clean sections - perfect for then taking up the field) and the quality of this stuff is such that my horses don't really have hard feed - just balancer, chaff, and some fibre cubes for the old girl.
 
£33 per bale delivered for large Ryegrass Square bales. There is a supplier more local to me who has hiked theirs up to £45 per bale- ouch!!!- and it's not even nice!

Am toying with the idea of getting 50 small bales per pallet at a time, as my haylage is normally top notch but has been a bit inconsistent lately!
 
I paid £260 a tonne.

I have seen round bales for £75.

I'm in southern Hampshire and as Karyn said we have no hay because we had no rain.
 
I've been quite lucky this year, managed to get 250 small bales of hay at £2.50 a bale, all other suppliers were £3.50-£4 if they had any small bales at all!

Were running low now and have just found 10 round bales of haylage at £200, good quality stuff, will have to go pick it up though. I prefer small bales as they are a lot easier for me to store but there doesn't seem to be any anywhere, so will have to settle for round.
 
Thanks all! You gave me some ammunition - and I used it to good effect! 105 BIG bales delivered and stacked today with NO increase (still £30 a bale - which is enough considering the amount I use!!)

I confess I also told him I'd spoken to some suppliers who were VERY apologetic they weren't taking on new customers at present as they wanted to be sure they had enough for their regulars. And also passed on the comments I got from two - that they WOULDN'T be putting their prices up for the rest of the winter as they were in business 'for the long haul' - and didn't want to pi** off good customers by 'profiteering'!
 
most people who have been in the game for a while WILL have secured their hay/haylage back in the summer at an agreed price. i didnt make hay this year but filled my barn up off the field and secured another 2000 to be delivered as req, at same price plus delivery. i also paid for all my bedding in the summer to be delivered as req. i also negotiated my hard feed at harvest time. Any one who has run out or going short by dec has not planned ahead. this hard start to winter was forecast! and we havent had the worst of it yet! Stow hay sales were fetching £9 per small (but very good)bale last week!
 
ofcourseyoucan said:
most people who have been in the game for a while WILL have secured their hay/haylage back in the summer at an agreed price.
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I had! But the farmer who supplies me didn't have enough and he had to bring another farmer in on the deal to secure enough. It was the other farmer decided to play cute and try to get more - as he kept hearing how prices were going up!

All sorted now - thankfully!
 
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