This years hay

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How much are you paying per bale and what's the quality like? I feed my mare haylage during the winter and gelding hay, as he get hyper and a bit loose on haylage, but the quality of the hay this year is cr@p! I have been offered some at £2.50 p/bale. It was cut in august, got rained on once before it was baled and there is not much bulk to it. It is also more brown than green. Other suppliers are charging between £3.50 and £4.50 or only supplying regulars. I tend to soak hay anyway so maybe the cheaper stuff will do
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Paid £3 per bale delivered for the first cut back in June from our regular supplier. It's excellent quality. However, its been so dry down here that we have been feeding it already & think we are going to need more....
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I think the problem is that it has been really wet in many parts of the country, so they have been struggling to cut it - thereby the quality is not so good. Down here, they managed to cut it, but the grass is now so brown & parched that there isn't enough!
 
I just paid £1.50 delivered, compact bales but have been told to get the real heavy ones out of the pile as they have really heated up and might go mouldy
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They are too heavy for me to move
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£3.25 per small bale, but it is bl**dy good stuff. Was told by my supplier earlier this month that if the weather didn't cooperate the price would more than likely go up, so I bought as much as I could cram in!
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Our hay is a bit of a mix at the min - the last lot was only cut the begining of last week and i am waiting to see what that turns out like, especially as it was very very damp overnight, although the days were really really hot - so its either going to be great or CRAP!

We have some beautiful sweet smelling stuff but it is so light and the bales are tiny - i am feeding just over a bale a night (i have 3). The other stuff is heavier but is soooooo dusty it is awful.

We have had very little good hay for the past 2 years and have been paying either £3.50 or £4.00 per bale - we have no choice we have to buy off yard owner. - well we can choose to have horsage but at £7.00 a bag and having 3 - ~I think it is pretty obvious that that is a non starter, although i do save up to buy half a dozen bags for use over Christmas
 
Have grown our own this year - very good hay, cut and baled late June.

We have sold a few bales at £2.50 to friends - however, if we need to sell some more bales it will be £3.00. It is very good quality and is pale green. No weeds and (certainly no ragwort).

We are in Suffolk BTW.
 
£17 per round bale...i'm more than happy with that.

straw is at a premium this year due to the terrible late summer weather...i'm having 30 D1010'S delivered on sunday and i've no idea on the price TBH just glad i've got some
 
After talking to haycutters/farmers,the hay crop this yr was very thin,the fields havnt thickened up like they should have done
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,we got a fab cut and hay is gorgeous but we will need more to see us threw(normally we would have enough to see us threw till nxt may,not this yr
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If you need hay buy it now,as they know it has been a bad yr and the prices will rocket
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I fed my lad haylage last yr and it worked out the same as hay and he looked bloody good on it
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£17 per round bale...i'm more than happy with that.

straw is at a premium this year due to the terrible late summer weather...i'm having 30 D1010'S delivered on sunday and i've no idea on the price TBH just glad i've got some

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We know that feeling,the straw has cost a hell of alot this yr,we got barley but it is cut very short this yr,and barley is liker gold dust!!
 
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i'm also trying linseed/rape straw as a back up...no idea what its like TBH

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we tried rye last yr,it very coarse,and the buggers ate more of it than anything else
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didnt soak up pee either!!
having said that we had some gorgeous barley last yr and yr before,they didnt touch it,this yr,they scoffing more bed than hay
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We cut ours in August, nowhere near as good as last year, and the lady that buys ours came to get it last week, she's had our last 3 years supply (no ponies at home) but usually comes to get it much later in the year/in the spring. Although we also cut our neighbours 2 acres of muchly grazed by rabbit and not fertilised/tended other than for weeds till this year (so only 14 bales from it) we were still a good 10% down on our total crop despite the extra acreage.

So absolutely agree with above : if you've the space buy it now.
 
Our farmer made his haylage in July and we started using it at the beginning of this month. The weather was good here all summer and haylage was cut and baled when dry, he is charging us £25 a bale but the bales heat up very quickly once opened.

Have seen small hay bales for sale - some of last years still around at £3, but one farmer is selling this years at £2.

Some of the other liveries bought hay in before our haylage was ready and it's gone mouldy already, so local hay is a bit hit and miss.

Our farmer is selling his straw at £12 per round bale. I think it's wheat (not paid much attention!), cut quite long and most of the wee escpaes under the door before the straw soaks it up! He says he might only have enough straw to last til February though.
 
I've just paid £1.25 off the field. I'm a little worried as the nights were so cold and so just weren't dry enough and the bales were VERY heavy. They are huge, very compact bales but I'll have to wait and see as to whether they all survive. Keeping a watch on my barn for smoke too
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If the bales are heating up its not ging to be good, we baled 1500 in June plus 80 round bales and did another 600 in early August. It smells lovely in the yard and is green and nice.

Baled straw in August 800 bales, we were very lucky we got it baled and in the barn before the weather changed.

Round here round bales (smaller type) are making £10 a bale and traditional bales £2.50, straw is between £2.00 and £2.50 not sure about large bales.
 
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