How much are you paying for Hay this year?

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My landlord has just made our Hay and is charging £3 a bale, which he has kindly found some space in his barn and stacked it all up for me
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.... it is £3 a bale though
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Saying that I know it is organic, ragwort free and not been rained on and is lovely
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... so perhaps not such a bad deal, even though I have to pay £600
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I just hope that Motor can and will eat it
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Struggling to find it down 'ere!
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Found one person who already "doesn't have much left" (read only the sh1tty stuff left) and they want £3.50 a bale
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ali_m I hope you can find some nice stuff, even at £3.50
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... how I wish I could get some nice hay for £1.75 - £2.20
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JDaniels
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... that would have saved me a packet, dread to calculate how much
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I am selling mine for £2 a bale. Really nice but this years so won't be edible for a few weeks but Wiltshire is a bit far from you guys!
 
we sold our spare- beautiful, not rained on ragwort free organic for £2 per bale to my instructor, so we get free lessons for a bit!
 
Having Foresters means regular trips and I make the New Forest Show in 1 hour.
How many bales can you get in a 7.5T
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Paid £4 last year!! Getting screwed over by YM. We can only store a weeks worth so have to get it from her because no one else will store it for us. She's now saying she can't supply us this year because one of the yard members thought we could get it for £2. Turns out only she can get it for £2 and we've lost our supplier!! In a real pickle!!
 
Well I've just been offered some hay for £4 a bale!!! It was offered to me to help me out as I'm using big bale haylage which is going off quicker than I can use it - but at £4 a bale it'd cost me far more for the two of them than wasting the haylage - so I'd rather waste the haylage!

Hay field is coming along nicely - going to cut it in July/Aug - still undecided about whether to do haylage or hay - I think I'll let the weather decide
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I actually don't think £3 a bale is too bad if it was all stacked up for you too, our spare was picked up off the field for £2 and there is a lot to be said for having good hay that you know.
 
Ours is £2.50 bale and is meadow hay smells lovely. We have made 1400 bales so far and will make another 600 by the time we've finished, anything that we feel isn't quite upto scratch we roundbale and feed to the cattle and sheep.
 
Hmm im very lucky i pay £10 a week for however much i want through the winter,if i need any in the summer i get it for nothing.
 
£1.10 a bale - + £30 for use of tractor & trailer for delivery & we loaded/unloaded & stacked it ourselves.
 
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Hmm im very lucky i pay £10 a week for however much i want through the winter,if i need any in the summer i get it for nothing.

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Sorry i did not say thats for 2 horses.
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I've just bought in this years hay 250 bales at £3 it top notch though and weed and raggie free
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I'm happy with the price been paying up to £4 at the end of last winter with shortages from the poo last summer...
 
Our yard hay is £3 a bale for the third year running.... Prior to that it was £2.50..... It is lovely hay though.... I am still using the year before lasts as I over ordered..... But its still sweet and not dusty (just a bit cobwebby) ... although I realise that it wont be quite as nutritious
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I actually don't think £3 a bale is too bad if it was all stacked up for you too, our spare was picked up off the field for £2 and there is a lot to be said for having good hay that you know.

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Totally agree, it was lovely to have it stacked up for me, however I would have still been charged £3 if I had gone along to help
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Irony is that I have access to the entire 6 acre field, but only use just under an acre
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£1.10 a bale - + £30 for use of tractor & trailer for delivery & we loaded/unloaded & stacked it ourselves.

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That is very jammy too
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I was paying £3 a bale, but as me and my friend who I share the yard with and who runs it and makes the hay, look after each others horses all the time, it was mega complicated to work out, as it meant taking it from 2 bales and getting it in the right stables, so now I just pay her £5 a week, per horse, so £15 a week and then we can just load the wheelbarrow up and drop it off as we go down the yard, so much easier! In summer when they are out, I just pay for what I use.
 
AAgh how is everybody managing to get their hay made. We have had loads of stinking hot days, interspersed with thunder storms and the farmer still hasn't cut mine.
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It is so frustrating !
 
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AAgh how is everybody managing to get their hay made. We have had loads of stinking hot days, interspersed with thunder storms and the farmer still hasn't cut mine.
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It is so frustrating !

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We had a lucky break last week...cut on tues/weds baled up Sat in my barn Sat pm peed it down for a hour approx half an hour after the last bale went in
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was very very lucky
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AAgh how is everybody managing to get their hay made. We have had loads of stinking hot days, interspersed with thunder storms and the farmer still hasn't cut mine.
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It is so frustrating !

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Come and live in sunny Sussex
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I bought two bales on monday at 4 a bale.
But my usually haylage man has just offered to do me a deal on small bale haylage until the winter at 4 a bale.. So im sodding the hay off lol

Lou x
 
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