Price of hay this year?

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alfirules

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Hi,
We haven't had our hay made yet this year, and now its too late really so thinking of buying it in.

Just enquired about good quality horse hay which is £3.50 a bale, how does this compare with what everyone else is paying?

TBH i haven't really seen hay advertised much this year.
 
we made a bumper crop this year and have been told to sell it for £25 per bale. but one of our local farmers sells samll bales and he normally charges £2.50 but has said the price will drastically go up. some have been selling it at £5.50 per bale
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Our good quality is £3, but we also have older stuff for £2 and large bales are £18 for June and £10 for August hay this year. Price never seems to change much for us!
 
Arules, it isn't just the UK.

Here too, a lot of farmers locally have had a really bad season for hay and still have standing hay in fields (I have 15 acres of second crop uncut) We are all just waiting for a window of dry weather but even so with the temps only in the low 20's it'll take an age to dry. If I can't cut it I only have until maybe November to strip graze, after that the ground will freeze and after that it will probably be under snow until March. Serious bummer.

Hay is going to be expensive in my area this year. I have just bought in twenty 600lb bales of last years hay, just in case. My supplier ships his square bales to a horse farm in Texas for $100 a bale (about 50 GBP) plus $3900 shipping, plus border taxes! I'd hate to be a horse keeper in Texas
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A friend has persuaded a kindly sheep farmer that she knows to part with a few bales of absolutely gorgeous hay for me, as my YO ran out and swapped everything onto haylage until this year's hay's ready
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It is wonderful stuff and I'm paying £3 a bale. He doesn't normally sell it but agreed to a few bales in the short term - I don't want to go back to the yard's hay! (Also £3 a bale).
 
Wow. Glad I live where I live and know who I know. I'm paying 2.50/bale, including storage in the makers barn and small batches delivered as and when I need it. Fabulous hay, too.

Gosh, 5.50/bale?!!!!
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we sold our excess off for £2.75 a bale - it is lovely hay. There was only a little around earlier in the summer, but then there was one week at the start of August when we and lots of people around us managed to get their hay made and so locally, there is plenty about (South Cumbria) at reasonable prices.
 
We have most of our hay and straw in now (6 massive barns full of the stuff)

Hay will be £3.00 per small bale
Straw will be £2.50 per small bale
Hayledge is £3.00 per week and you can have as much as you like.

Were struggling to store the stuff to be honest.
 
Hay prices aswell as straw are set to rocket this yr
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people have had a much thinner crop of hay this yr and alot of straw has been lost due to the rain!!
 
We charged £2.20 for hay delivered off the field and will charge at least £3 out of the barn. The OH thinks we should charge £1.25 for straw and I said £1.50, but seeing what folks are paying on here, thats too cheap!
 
Currently paying £4.00 a bale of hay,
£3.50 for straw

and i am a YO who buys a lot in bulk
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havent managed to get a good haylage price yet but it will prob be in excess of £25 per round bale, (last year was about that) but one guy tried to charge us £38 per heston of haylage!
 
We haven't made ours yet - it is a nightmare.....I suspect that we will have to wrap it for hage - next week????? releived to hear that others are in the same boat. Weather has been completely dire and I have been unwell since March so unable to really nag our local contractor - need to get a grip, really!
 
I've collected my hay from the same field for about 15 years. Have to make three 25 mile round trips in the trailer. When it got to the beginning of August and they still hadn't made it, I rang a number in the local paper and he delivered and stacked 125 bales of lovely June hay, for £3.50 bale. Considering last years was £3 and I had all the hassle of collecting it myself, I was really pleased with the price.
 
£3 a bale is expensive if you collect it off the field. We only charge £2 if people collect off the field themselves and we don't have to stack and load it. Trouble is, not many folks want to do it (lazy sods!)
 
just bought 800 bales at 2.50 delivered when needed. my hay not cut and not much point doing now but it will be belly fill and amusement come dec and jan.
 
We have 100 of our own bales (if that, as it's a poor crop this year - usually get 150 biggish bales) and that cost a total of about £50 to make as we pay someone to cut it and bale it ourselves. We usually buy in 150 bales from a local farmer, every year, but he's lost most of his crop this year, so we found out today we won't be getting any from him, but would have been paying £1.50 a bale off the field.
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So we now have to find about 50 more bales of hay locally and we are looking at paying about £3 a bale; and we also need to find a haylage supplier locally as we will feed the WB haylage due to shortage in our hay.
 
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