william bealing hay

charliecrisps said:
Is his hay any good? Seems pretty cheap to what I'm used to paying
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Hay should be a lot cheaper at the moment! anybody paying over £2.50 a bale is being well and truely ripped off ! The wholesale market is awash with it and haylage several producers will be packing up soon at these prices. I can buy good hay at the moment for £1 bale and haylage £12/large bale both prices lower than what I can make it for .
 
popsdosh said:
Hay should be a lot cheaper at the moment! anybody paying over £2.50 a bale is being well and truely ripped off ! The wholesale market is awash with it and haylage several producers will be packing up soon at these prices. I can buy good hay at the moment for £1 bale and haylage £12/large bale both prices lower than what I can make it for .
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Where are you?
 
popsdosh said:
Hay should be a lot cheaper at the moment! anybody paying over £2.50 a bale is being well and truely ripped off ! The wholesale market is awash with it and haylage several producers will be packing up soon at these prices. I can buy good hay at the moment for £1 bale and haylage £12/large bale both prices lower than what I can make it for .
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I wish hay was that cheep round here! The going rate for a small bale is between £3.00 and £4.00 a bale. Rounds I pay £25.00 for when some are paying £35 +
 
Dancing_Diva said:
I wish hay was that cheep round here! The going rate for a small bale is between £3.00 and £4.00 a bale. Rounds I pay £25.00 for when some are paying £35 +
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Yeah, small bale hay is £4.50 and bales of haylage are £35 now! ( I know I was shocked )
If someone knows someone in west yorkshire that's doing big bales for £12 I will buy a load
 
popsdosh said:
Hay should be a lot cheaper at the moment! anybody paying over £2.50 a bale is being well and truely ripped off ! The wholesale market is awash with it and haylage several producers will be packing up soon at these prices. I can buy good hay at the moment for £1 bale and haylage £12/large bale both prices lower than what I can make it for .
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A lot of forage was made last year, not all of it very much use however it costs the same to produce it. It is ludicrous to suggest people should be selling it for less than it cost to make. We would keep ours before selling at a loss. Of course many people don't bother to know what their cost of production is in the first place and it takes them years to realise they are wasting their time working for nothing.
 
FfionWinnie said:
A lot of forage was made last year, not all of it very much use however it costs the same to produce it. It is ludicrous to suggest people should be selling it for less than it cost to make. We would keep ours before selling at a loss. Of course many people don't bother to know what their cost of production is in the first place and it takes them years to realise they are wasting their time working for nothing.
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It will make a big difference to fixed costs to those who can get a second cut.

When I lived up in the hills, I tried to buy hay off a neighbour. He refused to sell me any but offered to show it to me! He explained that if they had a good year, they simply extended the barn to get it all inside. Stored hay is better than money in the bank.
 
Dancing_Diva said:
I wish hay was that cheep round here! The going rate for a small bale is between £3.00 and £4.00 a bale. Rounds I pay £25.00 for when some are paying £35 +
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Same here, £5 for small bale hay, £35 for round haylage and £38 (yep) for round hay. Wouldn't be surprised if I was getting ripped off tbh, but it's better than the utter poo I was getting for £25/bale last year for silage pretending to be haylage.
 
I also wish it was that cheap round here for small bale.

I paid £3 delivered into my hay barn - off the field in the summer.
Best price now is from same farmer for £4.50 delivered (so I found out as new yard friend needs some shortly)

Local feed merchants are £6 delivered, the more pricey one is £6.50 per bale, or £5.95 if you order more than 25!
 
None of these priced mean much unless we say where we are.
I'm in the South East and paying £3.50 per bale delivered and stacked. That's pretty cheap for the area.
 
I'm the south east and am paying 5 pound a bale. Ouch! Hence why I'm looking to change. Always scares me changing though just in case they dont live up to the promises of no ragwort and guaranteed supplies... I think ill get the minimum order just to try then as no bad reviews coming forward. Thank you peeps
 
charliecrisps said:
I'm the south east and am paying 5 pound a bale. Ouch! Hence why I'm looking to change. Always scares me changing though just in case they dont live up to the promises of no ragwort and guaranteed supplies... I think ill get the minimum order just to try then as no bad reviews coming forward. Thank you peeps
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No supplier can guarantee no Ragwort ! As diligent as you are the last two years have been a nightmare for late emerging seedlings hiding in crops.
 
I bought some off him the other week and the bales seem to be really light and have to use so much of it so make a decent weight net!
 
xgemmax said:
I bought some off him the other week and the bales seem to be really light and have to use so much of it so make a decent weight net!
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Ooh that annoys me so much! Also when it's not tightly packed so you take the strings off and suddenly you're left with a pile of wisps rather than proper sections.

I'm in Essex and pay £4 delivered. My mare has fashioned herself as a hay connoisseur and has so far turned her nose up at 4 different hay suppliers this year so I'm pleased that these £4 bales are acceptable.
 
I'm paying £6 per bale for haylage at the moment and they're not the biggest bales in the world. If I had my own place / was on a yard where they had no interest what you used I could probably get this down to £4-5 a bale but I'm limited by what my pony can eat (only meadow or timothy varieties allowed!) and what my yard can get ordered in for me (and as they want to encourage you to buy their own they will only order in the same brands that local tack shops stock not just some from another local farmer). I'm in West Yorks by the way
 
Well I am in the south east & have been trying to sell our home made hay with no ragwort for 2.50 & now £2.00 a bale & are still having no luck so definitely a surplus round here
 
I'm in the south east and we sell small bales at £3.00 a bale at the yard I work on.

I buy rounds in at £25.00 a bale and medium size haylage at £30 a bale. That's delivered. I brought a trailer load off small bales off the field last year and paid £2.50 a bale and that was with them delivering the trailer to mine but I was the one who loaded the trailer lol and had to unload it and they collected the trailer few days later. (That was off my boss though hence them leaving the trailer with me and me loading it!).
 
A few girls at our yard use him. Hays great apparently but I wont swap from a dairy farmer in Plaxtol. £30 a round delivered :-) and his hay is lovely! And will bring you out another one if the bale you get is rot. He only delivers one at a time though- perfect for me!
 
irishdraft said:
Well I am in the south east & have been trying to sell our home made hay with no ragwort for 2.50 & now £2.00 a bale & are still having no luck so definitely a surplus round here
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Where are you?
I'm in NW Surrey & there is nothing around here at that price, apart from 1 seller but the bales are undersized and are not good qual at all.
 
popsdosh said:
Hay should be a lot cheaper at the moment! anybody paying over £2.50 a bale is being well and truely ripped off ! The wholesale market is awash with it and haylage several producers will be packing up soon at these prices. I can buy good hay at the moment for £1 bale and haylage £12/large bale both prices lower than what I can make it for .
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There may be an abundance of hay due to a good summer but firstly the cost of producing it isn't any less and secondly we may have a horrible summer this year and hay may be very scarce. I think it's wrong for you to say people are being ripped off TBH. We make our own hay and straw and the price remains the same and has done for years (£4 hay and £3 straw). We spend a substantial amount on weedkillers and fertilisers and don't get me started on the work involved in carting it in and stacking it! Every year my nerves are at breaking point worrying about the weather and whether or not we will get it in before it gets ruined etc so I'm sorry but if we had to sell it for £2.50 a bale we just wouldn't bother making it in the first place. Our bale are VERY tightly packed and I am confident they represent good value for money. Perhaps those that think they are being 'ripped off' should have a go at hay making themselves and see if your opinion changes then! I breath a huge sigh of relief once the last bale is safely stored and I know my liveries won't have to worry about buying it in from other sources which has in the past proved to be very expensive and problematic in so many ways. We make no money at all from livery and the only way we can make this business work is on the sale of hay and straw but as our horses live out 24/7 from April to October, we have to make hay while the sun shines! Pardon the choice of expression!
 
chocolategirl said:
There may be an abundance of hay due to a good summer but firstly the cost of producing it isn't any less and secondly we may have a horrible summer this year and hay may be very scarce. I think it's wrong for you to say people are being ripped off TBH. We make our own hay and straw and the price remains the same and has done for years (£4 hay and £3 straw). We spend a substantial amount on weedkillers and fertilisers and don't get me started on the work involved in carting it in and stacking it! Every year my nerves are at breaking point worrying about the weather and whether or not we will get it in before it gets ruined etc so I'm sorry but if we had to sell it for £2.50 a bale we just wouldn't bother making it in the first place. Our bale are VERY tightly packed and I am confident they represent good value for money. Perhaps those that think they are being 'ripped off' should have a go at hay making themselves and see if your opinion changes then! I breath a huge sigh of relief once the last bale is safely stored and I know my liveries won't have to worry about buying it in from other sources which has in the past proved to be very expensive and problematic in so many ways. We make no money at all from livery and the only way we can make this business work is on the sale of hay and straw but as our horses live out 24/7 from April to October, we have to make hay while the sun shines! Pardon the choice of expression!
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We don't have liveries but I feel your pain with the making of hay. Most stressful week of the year! My husband gets more stressed about harvest but it all about the hay for me. We are selling £3 a bale, tight bales and heavy.
 
chocolategirl said:
There may be an abundance of hay due to a good summer but firstly the cost of producing it isn't any less and secondly we may have a horrible summer this year and hay may be very scarce. I think it's wrong for you to say people are being ripped off TBH. We make our own hay and straw and the price remains the same and has done for years (£4 hay and £3 straw). We spend a substantial amount on weedkillers and fertilisers and don't get me started on the work involved in carting it in and stacking it! Every year my nerves are at breaking point worrying about the weather and whether or not we will get it in before it gets ruined etc so I'm sorry but if we had to sell it for £2.50 a bale we just wouldn't bother making it in the first place. Our bale are VERY tightly packed and I am confident they represent good value for money. Perhaps those that think they are being 'ripped off' should have a go at hay making themselves and see if your opinion changes then! I breath a huge sigh of relief once the last bale is safely stored and I know my liveries won't have to worry about buying it in from other sources which has in the past proved to be very expensive and problematic in so many ways. We make no money at all from livery and the only way we can make this business work is on the sale of hay and straw but as our horses live out 24/7 from April to October, we have to make hay while the sun shines! Pardon the choice of expression!
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I am just pointing out to people that there is supply and demand in the hay market and all the time people pay what the merchant is asking they will keep charging it.
I too produce forage in a large way but not to sell for my own stock and laugh at some of the merchants who charge my neighbour £40 bale for quadrants and offered the same to me for 15
I stood in Melton market on tuesday and saw a load of very good horse hay make £12/quadrant including delivery.
The straight answer about your hay being £4bale and straw 3 is if you can get it good on you however I think soon reality will kick in . There is a big auction near here on monday with several thousand tonnes of Hay, Hayledge and straw and the auctioneer is not confident of selling any.
 
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