Price of horse feed!

I was talking to my friend earlier and it’s quite frightening to think of how some people are going to manage this winter with feed and hay prices.

She owns a big yard with her own personal horses and has restructured her feeding programme. She has bought bulk and moved from brand names to feed merchant own brands . She has saved a bit this way without compromising and having to down size . For now anyway
 
My grass nuts have risen 50% in the last year. I guess anything that needs the amount of power it takes to dry large volumes of stuff is really suffering from the energy prices, and that's pretty much all pelleted horse food. The oats are a bit more difficult to understand that level of rise, ETA but that's probably Ukraine.
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Yes, i was shocked grass nuts up 50%. It's scary, I'm lucky that I've always been disciplined with money so i can absorb the price rises.....for now!
 
It's a worry how all the animal rescues are going to cope over the next few months; more people will be giving up horses, dogs, etc to rescues, but the rescues will also have to find more money to meet the increasing costs of food etc for their charges. It's a real mess that this is coming after the pandemic puppy boom. Thank god horses couldn't be breed quickly enough to satisfy the fad, I think there will be enough of them looking for a new home this winter as it is.
 
blitznbobs said:
It’s bills or bombs I’m afraid for the foreseeable future… I hope we can stick to bills tbh
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Its easier to feel that way when you can afford the bills. I've had a friend in tears tonight as she just cannot afford to turn the heating on. Shes cold now with a damp house and is panicking about when it really gets cold. Shes one of many in a nightmare situation that would welcome anything that put a stop to this. It breaks my heart.
 
Don't forget feed producers are paying increased production costs - they're not immune to rise in energy prices. Sounds like the costs have gone straight onto the consumer though.
 
Dexter said:
Its easier to feel that way when you can afford the bills. I've had a friend in tears tonight as she just cannot afford to turn the heating on. Shes cold now with a damp house and is panicking about when it really gets cold. Shes one of many in a nightmare situation that would welcome anything that put a stop to this. It breaks my heart.
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I'm sure she would be even more sad if her house had a bomb through the roof of it like many in Ukraine have which I think is the intimation of the post you have quoted. I would rather be paying higher bills then be war torn.
 
I had a look around,
  • Canada's Oat Production Down 43 Per Cent In 2021
  • The Statistic Canada Acreage Report released July 5 said Canadian farmers had increased their oat planted acres by 16%, to 4 million acres

So maybe some relief next year.
 
Dexter said:
Its easier to feel that way when you can afford the bills. I've had a friend in tears tonight as she just cannot afford to turn the heating on. Shes cold now with a damp house and is panicking about when it really gets cold. Shes one of many in a nightmare situation that would welcome anything that put a stop to this. It breaks my heart.
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I totally get that but would she prefer the bombs?
 
Not horse feed I know but I noticed in a garden centre today that a big sack of wild bird seed had increased in price from £17.99 to £24.99 in just one week. A really scary sign of the times I suppose
 
PoniesRock, do you mean to run the machinery used to process the feed or the fork trucks used to move pallets around are now having to be run by white diesel?

One of the largest horse feed producers mill is all run by pneumatic compressors and all fork trucks are gas powered.
 
Rolled oats at wynnstay £7.40, country uf horsebeet ( same as speedibeet)) £15.75 at TFM and horseage mollichaff light molasses free £7.85for12.5kg at TFM. Haven't found any cheaper
 
Sky’s-Legacy said:
PoniesRock, do you mean to run the machinery used to process the feed or the fork trucks used to move pallets around are now having to be run by white diesel?

One of the largest horse feed producers mill is all run by pneumatic compressors and all fork trucks are gas powered.
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The rules on the use of red diesel has changed this year. Basically only tractors which are in full agri use can be run on red. So anything else that would previously be run on red is no longer allowed. This has really effected us, as we make and deliver hay. We have had to keep one tractor on white diesel to be able to deliver hay as hay to horses isn’t considered a agri use as horses are not legally considered livestock, so therefore our delivery rates have had to increase. But I would imagine anything such as pallet forks are in the same boat… all increased costs seem to very much being passed over to the consumer.
 
Backtoblack said:
Rolled oats at wynnstay £7.40, country uf horsebeet ( same as speedibeet)) £15.75 at TFM and horseage mollichaff light molasses free £7.85for12.5kg at TFM. Haven't found any cheaper
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My local is a bit cheaper own brand oats £6.85, couldn't find an own brand beet but trident molasses free is £10.75 and for that price difference i could cope with lo g soak. Speedibeet would be £16.75. Mollichaff light £7.60

However my Grasstatic was £7.99 this time last year, went to £9.99 in the new year and is £11.70 now. Likewise Charnwood Linseed has had 2 increases going from £19.99 to £25. 30
 
ycbm said:
My grass nuts have risen 50% in the last year. I guess anything that needs the amount of power it takes to dry large volumes of stuff is really suffering from the energy prices, and that's pretty much all pelleted horse food. The oats are a bit more difficult to understand that level of rise, ETA but that's probably Ukraine.
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All oats are cooked as a grain otherwise they spoil rot or germinate
 
I bought in bulk in August before everything shot up, I feed basic so lo cal balancer, dengie grass nuts, dengie alfalfa nuts and sugar beet pellets. Another reason I’m glad I’ve got a cheap to keep welshie.
 
I got some ordinary sugar beet this week, 2 bags which last year were around £8 and these 2 bags were over £25. I was only allowed 2 as they were rationed.
 
I am going to have a look at wynstay. My local feed shop is expensive anyway so will do a price check. I am open to changing feed to a normal sugerbeet as ok to soak longer if nec.
 
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