Hay prices - rumours of £12 a bale!!!!

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What are you currently paying for a small bale of hay? And whereabouts in the country are you? We have heard rumours in the H&H office of people paying up to £12 for small bale of hay. So have any forum members been forced to pay this much? Let us know below.
 
We got 50 bales on Sunday, still £3 a bale......he's about run out but with the large bales we still have, we think we have enough to see us through.

We have already placed an order for alot more when he does this years hay! He wrote it down in his little book, we are the first!

It's good quality stuff we get, very happy with it.
 
There are adverts for hay at £7.50/small bale here (Bury St Edmunds) - whether they are selling it or not is another matter!! OH is still selling hay for between £4.50 - £6/bale depending on how much is ordered (including free delivery). We are a heavily agricultural area though, with limited grassland hence the high hay price - we can still get straw for 85p/bale whereas a lot of people are paying £2+.
 
I've got plenty of good quality hay for £3.50 a small bale... the problem is, my horses won't eat it, the cows and sheep are having it at the moment.
They also won't eat locally produced (branded) haylage, but will eat a similar brand (the same grass seed) of haylage grown in the Wolds :confused:
At the moment, they are having a mixture of 2 year old hay from the bottom of the barn, the branded haylage at £7.95 per small bale and Staffordshire haylage at £6 a medium bale.
They are eating me out of house and home!
 
Our hay supplier has just told us no hay after March!! YO is now panicking trying to get the fileds in good condition for April, which has a knock on effect on turnout. Its a nightmare this year. I'm praying for a good summer with gentle rain showers.
 
Our YO can supply his hay (the large round bales, can't remember the exact weight) down South at £100 per bale...shocking!
 
I last bought a small hay bale about a month ago and that was £4 in Cornwall

I'm now using haylage, we're just going through so much of it all!
 
Thankfully the farmer took a cut off our yards field last year so that bolsterd our supply up, added to that one livery has a very good hay/straw contact, so we got ours in early! And we're not paying ridiculous amounts for it. We're in west midlands.
 
Got 150 bales at 4.50 a bale at the beginning of autumn but had to get some more in last week and it was 6.50 from the same supplier! Also bought 80 small bale haylage at 5.50 a bale in September but these are "big" small bales (approx 45kg). We can easily get more of this at the same price. We are in Surrey.
 
I think we are around £35 for large bales at the moment, but there isn't much left so may have to put my youngster onto our homegrown haylage shortly!

I know the local feed merchants are up at £7 per small bale.
 
Paid £3.50 per small bale delivered for the first cut in June of last year to cover us for Winter. We ordered extra (as apparently everybody else did!) and were given about 80% of what we ordered with supplier hoping for 2nd cut. 2nd cut never materialised due to weather, but supplier has out-sourced the difference for us, and is due to deliver the other bales at £5.75 each. We are South East.
 
I hope that has satisfied H&H that hay is not £12 a bale it would not be helpful to do an article surgesting(sp) that it is.
 
It is £6.75 a small bale from our local feed merchant, but direct from the farmer is cheaper and they aren't that concerned with supply at the moment. We are on the Kent/Surrey border
 
£12 is ludicrous!

We're paying £3.25 for very good quality small bales, delivered and stacked for us.


We have another supplier (good friends) who reserved 30 bales at £4 each should we need it. They are storing it for us. Again superb quality hay.
 
Our feed merchant sells bales at the moment for £6.50 a bale, which is more than a bale of shavings! My old ned has also picked this time of year to be on box rest so he needs extra hay, hence is eating me out of house and home! I'm in Surrey.
 
im paying anything from £3.50 a bale(bought through a friend who is regular to the supplier) upto £6.00 from the local feed merchants.

think haylage is £45 for a medium bale

im in romford essex
 
The local suppliers here are trying to charge £10 a bale. I say trying, as I have politely told them to fek off and am bulking out with Hi-Fi. That's in Mole Valley (Surrey).
 
If anybody is paying £12 for a bale of hay needs thier bumps feeling! think this is just a rumours for the sake of sensationalism and journalism!!!! things must be slow in the office. :-)
 
Its slightly different because I live in Guernsey so we have limited space to grow our own hay (although obviously it generally is) or things are imported. One of the feed merchents has got hay from the UK - he has been charging £13.50 a bale - just because he can as some people have not been organised and sorted their hay out in advance. He has also told a few people it will soon be going up to £15.00. This is extrousion in my opinion because even once he has paid to ship it over its not costing that much. His mark up must be huge. Disgusting.
 
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