Hay Prices

[Bellalily]

I’ve just been told that hay prices are likely to double this year due to a poor harvest, but another person who has just done their hay said it was only slightly down on last year. I know fertiliser prices have ??, but what’s the feedback everyone else is getting? She’s already charging me £5 pd for hay and as they have plenty of grass atm, I reckon I could easily reduce their in time hay, whether day or night time. I do need to make sure I have grass for the winter though as hay not allowed in their fields. What prices are every one else paying now? TIA

 

[awelshandawarmblood]

They've had a good yield here & same price as last year at £3.50 for a rectangle bale off the field. Shocked me as I know everything has gone through the roof, but this aside, you'll always get the ones who love a bit of scaremongering too.

 

[Bellalily]

They've had a good yield here & same price as last year at £3.50 for a rectangle bale off the field. Shocked me as I know everything has gone through the roof, but this aside, you'll always get the ones who love a bit of scaremongering too.

Thanks. Whereabouts are you?

 

[twiggy2]

We are paying £48 & 49 for a round bale delivered and we buy about 500 each winter, we are way up north though and they hay comes a fair way, is very good and if we need more the supplier can get it at the end of winter.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

We do our own hay luckily , but like many others we didn't fertilise this year. Hay crops round here may be slightly down but nothing terrible. A small square here is £3..50/£4.00.

 

[Mustard]

£40 for a big bale, and the same for big bale haylage. Up £5 from last year. The farmer said although production was much more expensive, the good crops were mitigating that.

 

[maya2008]

There’s tonnes of it in Wiltshire - people still selling off the end of last year’s stock for cheap prices, and our local supplier got a bumper crop (double the usual yield) using manure from the local dairy farm rather than chemical fertiliser.

 

[Bellalily]

We do our own hay luckily , but like many others we didn't fertilise this year. Hay crops round here may be slightly down but nothing terrible. A small square here is £3..50/£4.00.

Whereabouts are you?

 

[Bellalily]

Thank you all, as I suspected. I’m going to have to call it out and source my own hay then. Honestly I do wish people would be straight with me. I must have “mug” written across my face ?

 

[chaps89]

Mine went from £5 to £6 a small bale before the first crop this year was even cut and baled!

 

[Bellalily]

Mine went from £5 to £6 a small bale before the first crop this year was even cut and baled!

Whereabouts are you?

 

[chaps89]

Whereabouts are you?

Buckinghamshire. Not many hay suppliers around here and this one is easy to deal with but yeah it was a bit of an ouch - especially as my mum just paid £2 a bale up in Shropshire (admittedly off the field, but would have been £3.50 stacked and delivered!)

 

[rextherobber]

In the south, I've been feeding hay pretty much all summer. There's no grass, and locally there's only been one cut ( usually a silage cut then hay cut later) I'm paying £40 for a large rectangular bale.

 

[Widgeon]

Can't speak to prices yet but from speaking to a couple of local people who make their own hay, yields seem to be down this year, round here. It's impossible for me to know whether that's a very localised problem though. It might be.

 

[Abacus]

We make our own and got slightly over half the amount we had last year from the same 6 acre field. Admittedly without fertiliser. I’m not too bothered as we still have some left from last year and there’s probably nearly enough in total to last the winter for our 7 horses, but this has been our lowest year yet. I would expect prices to be high towards the end of winter.

 

[ElleSkywalker]

One neighbour is up slightly, and one down slightly but last year was a bumper year so still a good yield. Prices round here seem stable (notts/derby) seen everything from 3.50-6 off the field

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Whereabouts are you?

South lincs

 

[irishdraft]

There's been a bumper crop where I am in the south east . I regularly see ads selling off lasts year's as no where to store. I wouldn't know about prices as we make our own . OP is that £5 per day for one horse ?

 

[Midlifecrisis]

It’s been a fabulous year for haymaking…a friend said only the very worst farmer could ve mucked up this year. Normally I would ve expected a drop in price…supply exceeding demand…but the increase in fuel prices will be passed along I’m sure. Current livery yard was selling large rectangles for £60 last summer (when I first arrived) but this year have offered them for £40. I’m paying £4 at another farm for small rectangles from last years harvest (never hurts to have an alternative supply) but don’t know price for this years.

 

[Surbie]

I get mine through the yard I'm on, but all the local farmers (north Surrey) appear to have had good yields and prices are holding steady.

 

[TPO]

It's been a good year for hay but it's the increase in fuel, fertiliser (more than doubled) and subsidiaries like twine and bale wrap that have pushed the price way up.

For years I've paid £5 per small bale delivered. This year I'm paying that for off the field so the price going forward will be at the very least £1 more per bale 2hich adds up ordering 100+ at a time.

It's the farmers I feel for. The government are doing everything they can to destroy British farming

 

[fidleyspromise]

Big round bale packed tight. Up from £25 to £30. They dropped from £30 to £25 a couple years ago.

A very fair farmer as I found some didn't care what sort of harvest they got they charged higher anyway. I was £40 plus be brought 10 at a time whereas current fatmer brings me up to 3 so they don't go mouldy.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I contacted my usual hay supplier and instead of £40 delivered its going to be 55 per round bale. So managed to find an alternative supplier at 45 per bale delivered ?

 

[Bellalily]

There's been a bumper crop where I am in the south east . I regularly see ads selling off lasts year's as no where to store. I wouldn't know about prices as we make our own . OP is that £5 per day for one horse ?

I’m in the SE and I’ve heard a couple of peeps are selling at £3.50 per small bale. No, that’s for both and it’s not limited, but as they are eating about 2/3 bale I reckon by the weight of their nets, I’m paying way over the odds atm and I haven’t a clue why she’s talking about the price doubling. I appreciate there are other expenses and fertilisers especially are ££££, but I just felt she was scaremongering into keeping me paying for hers. ?‍

 

[Bellalily]

I’m in the SE and I’ve heard a couple of peeps are selling at £3.50 per small bale. No, that’s for both and it’s not limited, but as they are eating about 2/3 bale I reckon by the weight of their nets, I’m paying way over the odds atm and I haven’t a clue why she’s talking about the price doubling. I appreciate there are other expenses and fertilisers especially are ££££, but I just felt she was scaremongering into keeping me paying for hers. ?‍

If I get my own at £3.50, it’ll halve my costs.

 

[Horseysheepy]

It's been a good year for hay but it's the increase in fuel, fertiliser (more than doubled) and subsidiaries like twine and bale wrap that have pushed the price way up.

For years I've paid £5 per small bale delivered. This year I'm paying that for off the field so the price going forward will be at the very least £1 more per bale 2hich adds up ordering 100+ at a time.

It's the farmers I feel for. The government are doing everything they can to destroy British farming

This 100%

 

[Barton Bounty]

If I get my own at £3.50, it’ll halve my costs.

Id get my own if I was you, my farmer was saying its fertiliser and fuel costs etc that are pushing it up

 

[Snowfilly]

In Cornwall and small bale hay have been going for £2.50 off the field and £3 - £4 stacked.

I saw large bale haylege at £25 last night! My guy is £30 and I’ll probably stick with him because he’s reliable and will do other odd tractor jobs if I need him but if I was using more, I think I’d have to switch.

 

[Sanversera]

We've had a bumper crop this year, there's lots of hay and straw around locally.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Our yield was down again though we've got enough for my purposes. The prolonged dry spell coupled with the fact that the hay field has deliberately not been fertilised for years has led to the lower yields. I've still got quite a bit of last year's hay left.

FGI, it cost us £1.55p per small bale at mates rates prices to get the hay cut, turned and baled on our nearly 3 acre hay field, but not stacked and brought in (we did that ?).