Price of hay/haylage in East Anglia

LisaJM

LisaJM

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Just wondered what everyone is paying for hay and haylage in the East Anglia region at the moment?

We get good quality 250kg timothy haylage bales for £40 each delivered and have just bought some good quality meadow hay because I know were not going to have enough grass over the summer, and have had to pay £6.70 per bale delivered, although they are quite heavy standard sized bales.

Just wondered if I was paying over the odds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I pay £20 for 100kg bales of haylage...not sure what price hay is as I bought all mine last June off the field at £2 per bale.
 
£3 per bale off the field BUT it's cut in July so not a lot of nutritional value. Back it up with shop brought halage £5.60 per bale delivered no min order, Essex/Suffolk border. Big bale haylage is same as yours delivered.
 
Derbyshire. Can't get the big hay bales at the moment. Horses are out 24/7, but they have hay when they come in, which is now £5 a bale and the last lot wasn't very nice, though not dusty, so okay.

Will be sourcing in the next couple of months, buy and have in for winter.
 
PS - What exactly does "off the field" mean... sorry, have never really bought hay, so not clued up!!!!
 
LisaJM said:
£2 per bale?????????????????? I wish... lucky you :)

Where was that from?
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Sorry, no can do! Getting the same deal again is year....its a farmer relative of a friend, and he only does a bit of hay, not a big seller.

Off the field means we had to go and collect it ourselves, literally out of the field. Took us 9 hours on the hottest day of last June, to move 490 bales between us! Def worth it for the price we got, but wow did we hurt for a long time!
 
Tr0uble said:
Off the field means we had to go and collect it ourselves, literally out of the field. Took us 9 hours on the hottest day of last June, to move 490 bales between us! Def worth it for the price we got, but wow did we hurt for a long time!
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Now that's dedication for you :)

:eek: Not sure I'm up for that!!!!!! Think I'll stick to having it delivered :D
 
It will cost me more this year because I'm going to have to pay someone a days wages to do my share for me. I'm still waiting to hear about surgery on my broken (badly, totally destroyed) knee...not a chance I'll be able to do a day like that this year...and we're getting 600 bales between us this year.

But still, it's still a lot cheaper to pay someone a days wages and do it this way, than to pay the silly prices elsewhere, and I'm sure I'll find someone grateful of the cash in hand!
 
Tr0uble said:
It will cost me more this year because I'm going to have to pay someone a days wages to do my share for me. I'm still waiting to hear about surgery on my broken (badly, totally destroyed) knee...not a chance I'll be able to do a day like that this year...and we're getting 600 bales between us this year.

But still, it's still a lot cheaper to pay someone a days wages and do it this way, than to pay the silly prices elsewhere, and I'm sure I'll find someone grateful of the cash in hand!
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Sounds like a good plan ;)

Hope your knee sorts itself out soon - that sounds very painful :(
 
been seeing hay around here for £6;50- £8 per small bale & its not the greatest either!

we are really lucky to have 9 acres that we will cut early june to be baled then the ponies will be turned out onto it (sectioned) untill the weather turns really bad & they have to be brought back up to the yard.

costs us about £200 to have it cut/turned/baled then we shift it ourselves to the barn (10 miles up the road) we average 300 bales off it a cut & it doesnt normally run out before the next time they get turned out to grass after the following years cut.
 
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