500$ a ton hay

Where do I sign up to sell hay like this

I picked up a trailer load of hay last week, Timothy hay was going for $29 & some change for a bale #1 cut alfalfa about $15 a bale,.......this is in "commiefornia"

Kinda akin to that kritter corn they sell at the city stores for about 1000 per cent more than a farmer gets for it.

Ever calculate the price of a bushel of Doritos corn chips from a vending machine?

When you start baling it that size, you can charge like that.

Yellow banded hay bales means certified weed free. Certain parks and various places require you to use only this expensive certified weed free hay for your horses while you're there. Looks like it's pretty easy to get your field approved. Here's a copy of how it works.

CERTIFIED NOXIOUS WEED FREE
Certified Noxious Weed Free
“Certified” means that a forage product is free of any noxious weeds. A number of certified noxious weed free forage programs are based on weed-free forage standards set by the North American Weed Management Association. NAWMA provides a list of noxious weeds found in North America and many states start with that list and add other noxious weeds found in their states as qualifying factors. Many states accept these minimum standards.

The benefit to you is that Certified forage products can be fed in protected National and State lands without the risk of spreading unwanted noxious weeds which squeeze out other naturally occurring vegetation. Certified Noxious Weed Free products are required by Federal and State authorities in protected areas. Each states requirement on Noxious Weed Free Forage differs, so please check with your states Department of Agriculture for specific details.

Certification Process:
Producers contact their local Department of Agriculture inspector prior to the forage harvest.
A certified inspector checks the forage for noxious weeds; once the field is inspected it must be harvested within 10 days.
The inspector files the “Certificate of Inspection” with the State Department of Agriculture. Once the certificate has been registered, the forage can then be labeled according to State labeling requirements. Compressed bales will have a yellow band with the letters NWFFS (Noxious Weed Free Forage Straw) and bagged products will have the Idaho Department of Ag logo and certification number in the lower left hand corner of the bag.
Forage inspections have zero tolerance for State identified noxious weed species.
Certified Noxious Weed Free Products
The weed free forage program was initiated to meet the demand for weed free products and prevent the spread of invasive plant species throughout North America. Certain state and federal government agencies have forage restrictions on where noxious weed free forages are required.

Standlee has several of its’ fields inspected yearly and certified to be free of noxious weeds by the State of Idaho Department of Agriculture. Select Standlee Premium Western Forage® products are Certified Noxious Weed Free in compliance with the North American Weed Free Management program. Standlee Premium Western Forage® certified bagged products include Alfalfa Cubes and Timothy Grass Pellets. Standlee also has certified compressed bales of Alfalfa, Timothy Grass and Straw, as well as certified Grab & Go™ compressed bales of Alfalfa and Straw.

With the mix of brown and green color and the kind of puffiness to the shape, it looks to me like it is a rebaled mix of good hay and mulch.

Those look like the bales compressed for export- would weigh about 100#. But sign says 55#- don't get it. We got some of the compressed ones a couple years ago- that was a disaster. Wife couldn't handle them, so would just tip them off the stack onto the plywood floor of the loft, resulting in many broken spots that I now get to fix. Swell. And they weren't even any good- turns out that they were culls, mainly because they had too much moisture, so we had to pick through them. No wonder they were only $6 per bale. Never again.

Atwoods, a farm chain store hqr'd in Oklahoma as I recall sells them in their Greenville, Tx. store. Looks like a brick to me, not a bale of hay. Just a passing comment as I have no use for them....I do hay, no more cows.

Never heard what the hay actually sells for, but, the trucking company I work for hauls hay and straw from as far away as Montana back to Kentucky. 39 3x4x8 bales usually. Have done 3x3x8 and small squares also but not often. 1.25 or more per mile makes that some costly hay even before the actual bale cost. Not sure of haul rates ( above my pay grade. All pays me the same) but easily could be $2000 plus per load.

Yes s55 but Doritos are the end product. This still needs to be processed into meat and manure and then shipped the the slaughter house and made into a useable product and then packaged and then shipped again and stocked at the store so we can buy it

I might buy one just to see what the quality is like
because just looking at it seems pretty poor at 557$
A ton

As usual.......I'm in the wrong business!

Patsdeere I think I could shorten the bales up that the 440 ih makes to be about that size I don?t think I can get that much hay in one though

Chump change....WalMart has timothy hay for rabbits at 12.88 for 6 pounds
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Forti-Di...r-Small-Animals-Treat-and-Food-96-oz/47336166

Not sure that is made in the first place for cattle feed. Up here there is an outfit that makes it and ships it all over the world (if it is the same category of hay). Pretty much used exclusively by the horse people (well by their horses, not by the people), and even then the horse people with money (if they have any left after looking after their horses). The weight of the stuff I have seen is amazing, it is packed so tight. Big business and they've been going for a while now so I suspect somebody must think it's worth the extra.

Timothy hay for rabbits? When I was raising rabbits and had lots of them only wanted the best alfalfa and sold some to others for rabbits.

Years back while i was hauling the big ugly and heavy oversized loads i hauled a load of high octane horse hay out of South Dakota to Miami Fl. on the RGN got caught in a blizzard and was not able to just run it down to Fl for a week , when i did get it there i was Shocked at the price them Horse people were paying per bale , they were paying 35 bucks for a standard twine tied bale. My cut was real good had i been able to load and go straight down but due to weather and having to drag it home and camp on the load was not in my game plan .