how are people finding hay prices

[vicky86]

£3.00 including delivery gone up 25p from last year in the West Midlands area.

 

[PinkHorsey]

We are in Kent and paying anything from around £4 upwards, there is talk about it going to £8 a bale at the end of the winter !

 

[Marchtime]

We are in Kent and paying anything from around £4 upwards, there is talk about it going to £8 a bale at the end of the winter !

Same here but we're in Surrey. We got our first 100 bales off the farmer who owns the fields next to ours for £3.50 a bale last month. He's already upped to £4.50 a bale and has said he has a lot less than last year. We've got 40 small bale haylege, plus four big haylege bales on their way next week and hopefully that should see my two through until February at least.

 

[PinkHorsey]

I think the problem is going to be in Feb/March 2011 when prices sore. I have also herd that people have been stealing off the field or from barns!

 

[lilaclomax]

Our price has just gone up by 67% from £3 a bale to £5 for this year's hay. It is great quality though and the farmer is selling it for £6 to non liveries, I am already mixing it with oat straw.

 

[Honey08]

Ours had gone up to £4 last month. Just rang up for another load, and its gone up to £5. We have a very honest supplier, who says people are panic buying and pushing prices up...

 

[Countrygirl]

I think I am lucky, after speaking to the farmer I bought off last year and being told sorry he couldn't sell any this year (needs them for his point to pointers) I panicked. I shouldn't have worried found a merchant who delivers free and charges £30 per big rectangular bale of hay/haylage (should have been baled as hay but they baled before the rain came). It's good quality and the horses love it.
He will deliver me some more whenever I want it and my shavings @ £7 per bale good quality and massive bales.

 

[Crazy Friesian]

£20 for the big round bales - East Midlands. I am lucky as my hay man is the farmer next door. He also does FABULOUS smaller bales of meadow hay.

 

[palomino698]

Cambs/Herts/Beds border, we paid £2.50/small bale collected - I get 35 in my trailer - but have only been able to reserve 70 bales this year as they got such a small crop. We'll run out before Christmas and this farmer warned prices will be astronomical by January IF anyone has any left to sell to non-regular clients. The merchants have taken so much from anyone with any quantity of decent hay and I don't know what we will do.

 

[Janesomerset]

In West Somerset been quoted £4.50 to £5 a bale - I nearly keeled over mine can eat a bale a day between the 2 1/2 of them

Last year we paid £1.80 a bale for wonderful stuff. Anyone in West Somerset know of cheaper?

Strewth, Beatrice5, we are also in West Somerset, had to pay £6 a bale and could only get 50. We are having some delivered from Devon/Cornwall border for £4.45 including delivery. West Somerset is the rip-off Mecca for anything horse-related though! If you hear of anything, PLEASE PLEASE pm me! Our pony is laminitic and stabled nights all year round. It is a big worry.

 

[orionstar]

We only but big round bales, and these have gone up from £20 to £25, but thanks to alot of "shortage publicity" farmers in my area are activley finding and selling these to wholesale companies down south, which low and behold means we cant get any, and one lovelly bloke has been ringing round trying to get other people to increase their charges to £35 per bale even though he has the same number of bales that he did last year! its luck my mare really needs to go on a diet!

 

[jumpingmum]

I can't believe how cheap some of you are finding hay and haylage. Here in Hampshire there is no hay small bales to be had for less than £5 and up to £8 is the norm. Large round bale hay quoted at £50 and rectangle haylage @£45. I am lucky and my supplier isn't trying to make a killing and my big round bale haylage is still only £25 per bale and lovely stuff.

I know a lot of people round here who collected off the field at £3 plus in June. How is everyone finding the prices now, most of these posts were in August.

 

[Sprout]

I have finally managed to get hold of some small bales, just paid £7 a bale delivered.

 

[kezimac]

paying same as last yr £35 for a big bale (6 stringer) i think this is equivalent to bet 15-17 bales.