How much is this years hay?

I've just found some for £2.50 a bale collected in Derbyshire, cheapest I've been able to get it for years. Gping to get as much as I can store as last winter was so expensive!
 
Can i be dumb and ask what you mean when you say collect directly from field? Is that tied into bales already or you go in with a sack and rack it up? :confused:
 
twiggy2 said:
the way things are going you will get all last years rubbish at an inflated price cos there wont be enough good stuff to spare
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There will be loads to spare. Last weekend I drove from Heathrow to the Pennines and the whole country was being baled! Even if a few counties down south are lacking grass, the rest aren't. The weather has been perfect and there is loads and loads of good grass. Around here the hay crop is superb and double last years crop.

ps. Buying off the field means buying the bales straight off the field, without the farmer having to deliver them. You turn up with your lorry..
 
We've just cut ours and got 100 bales per acre, despite the field having had no maintenance which meant that we have, in the days since it was cut, spent over 25 man hours pulling thistles out of it:mad:

FWIW it cost me £1.40 per bale to have someone cut, turn, row and bale. Round here prices vary from £3.50 for pretty poor stuff to £5 for nice clean well made hay like most of ours is.
 
Ive just had some small bales of really good quality lovely hay of the sort I could only dream of affording last year for £3 a bale.
My O/H is getting mine ready to bale right now and says its amazing stuff and twice as much as last year :D- we just do enough for us and a friend.
 
Antw23uk said:
Can i be dumb and ask what you mean when you say collect directly from field? Is that tied into bales already or you go in with a sack and rack it up? :confused:
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Its baled but cheaper because it saves man power, time and storage for the farmer to just have someone turn up with transport and do the loading/stacking themselves.
Prices will rise when the hay has been transported and stacked into the hay sheds.
 
Spottyappy said:
Omg! You lucky lot paying £2 or less a bale. My supplier is talking of putting his up from £4 to £5 a bale. Not good news with 4/5 mouths to feed.
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Yup, similar round here in the south :( I'm going to start shopping around in a mo as they are baling loads round here atmo.
 
Buy mine from a local hay merchant - delivered 180 bales last night and will bring another 120 bales either tonight or tomorrow night. Beautiful hay, was cut on Thursday and baled yesterday morning. Cost £3.50 a bale. (Last year's was £3.00 a bale - came from the same farm - although a different field, and was made at the end of July, so a bit less feed value but again clean and dry, they picked the only 4 day window without rain - was cut on the Thursday and delivered Sunday morning, and it rained Sunday afternoon!)
 
If anyone in Essex fancies buying from the field just shout! Ours is cut and drying. I hope it is nice, I get very stressed about hay!
 
Next door to me has just had their hay baled, they got 180 last year but only 89 this year and they had an extra half acre done.

Same situation with farmer down road and my Haylage supplier has got just over half his normal amount, I will probably be paying up front to secure mine.

I am assuming our shortage down here is due to the weather, flood after flood then not much rain through spring, my field has cracks you can get your hand down. This will be this last year I try to do hay, I am better off using the land to rotate grazing thus needing less hay or Haylage in long run.

Hope everyone else is fairing better.
 
meesha said:
Next door to me has just had their hay baled, they got 180 last year but only 89 this year and they had an extra half acre done.

Same situation with farmer down road and my Haylage supplier has got just over half his normal amount, I will probably be paying up front to secure mine.

I am assuming our shortage down here is due to the weather, flood after flood then not much rain through spring, my field has cracks you can get your hand down. This will be this last year I try to do hay, I am better off using the land to rotate grazing thus needing less hay or Haylage in long run.

Hope everyone else is fairing better.
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ours was baled yesterday and the hay the chap who did it was saying there has been less on all the fields they have done this year compared to last as it has been cut earlier and the late spring has held back the growth too, we did 4 extra acres and got two thirds of what we had last year
 
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