Hay prices up

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Just saw and add on Craig's list for hay. 4X5 round bale of hay listed for $75 each. That is almost twice what hay was last years here in Missouri but with the lack of rain the hay crop has also been way down. I only have around 25 big round done and in the barn so far this year. But at least that should be enough to get my by this winter and maybe have a few left over. I know I will not be selling any till late winter if I sell any at all. Most years my hay barn would be move then half full but not this year or the year before
 
Not in my area there were some 4 X 4 bales on CL the other day for $15 if the buyer would get them while they were still in the field.Hay has been pretty heavy so far.
 
>This infuriates me to no end, my hay sells for thirty a bale good times and bad. What are these money grubbing, greedy dirty dogs thinking? If everyone sells their cows who will buy hay from them in the
future? This happened a few years back and hay sales were just coming back strong. Here hay is poor this year mostly weeds these monkeys are selling. Hope they enjoy the profits







 
Now the hay price has gone up from the $75 to $100. Been a bad hay years but still people taking advantage of that should be hung
 
I am being real. Checked at the local place I buy hay if/when I need it. $44 per 4X5 bale. So the scalpers are asking more then twice going rate
 
Sell a 4X5 bale for $100 is well over priced when one can buy the same size bae for $44. But some like to take advantage of others when they can.
 
Majority of time hay is under sold. So all those corn growers should sell the corn for $3 a bushel when corn is $7? Hay should always be sold for the highest you can get, it's a tough way to make a living.
 
Exactly. I never had one person offer me a little more when I was struggling to get $2 out of it. I try to be fair, but when yields are half what they normally are, I'm not going to go in the red so someone can happily feed their little fur babies.
 
No if someone pays $100 for something they can buy for $44 then the buyer is just being plain stupid,I see over priced things for sale all the time if I'm dumb enough to
buy its sure not the seller's fault.
 
Exactly conditions change,supply changes, lots of variables,what something sold for last year or even last week really can no effect on current prices.See that at the hay auction
many times.
 
I know around me, the hay crop is a lot thinner due to some late frosts we experienced. I have heard some talk that hay is going to be hard to find this year. I have sold hay for the last 13 years and have tried to stay in the "average going price" for my area. For me, I wont price gouge. most of my customers have been coming to me since I started selling hay. I value their long time repeat business and when I have had to raise my price it has only been to cover increased input costs, my customers haven't complained. the way I see it, why raise your price double one season and run off your good repeat customers? I just hope I have enough to be able to cover what my regular customers usually buy. just my two cents.
 
My second cutting of sorghum sudan was a flop-nada as was my first cutting of Bermuda-nada. As usual, the faucet runs full blast so you can't bale winter-spring crops and when it turns off it turns off so you can't bale summer crops.....no product.

Starting to see Wheat straw, Corn stalks, Soybean plants (whatever that is) and Milo bales selling for what good hay ought to sell for. Some are ashamed of the bale size so they don't post it.
 
Stood at a consignment auction yesterday afternoon. They could not get a $25.00 bid on round bales. It was good grass hay, still green looking inside the bale.
 
Here in East Texas, our 4x5 rolls average about $50-$60 a roll. I sell for $60 to my normal customers, but only because I deliver and its all fertilized with no weeds. Other hay farmers around the area are charging from $75-$100 a roll to the buyers that are coming in from the surrounding cities.
 
Strange summer here in Missouri. I'm south of St. Louis and we have had decent rainfall almost all summer. My farmer friend's fields are better than knee high for his third cutting. The lady on the news yesterday said there is a three county area that has had good rainfall, but outside that area the state is in drought. She said livestock farmers were already into the hay and others were selling off their herds.
 
(quoted from post at 04:16:45 08/17/18) Strange summer here in Missouri. I'm south of St. Louis and we have had decent rainfall almost all summer. My farmer friend's fields are better than knee high for his third cutting. The lady on the news yesterday said there is a three county area that has had good rainfall, but outside that area the state is in drought. She said livestock farmers were already into the hay and others were selling off their herds.
ow far south of St. Louis? I'm at Jackson.
 
Well you have been to my place one time and up till this week we where over 4 inch behind for the year. By this time most years my hay barn if over half full but not this year or last year. Looks like I may get a second cutting if it does not get cold to early and we get a bit more rain. By the way isn't there a town in that area called Bontere or something like that?? Back I nth 80s I would drive out there to pick up what was called Ni-Pack which was a safe type of explosive much like TNT. Wish I could still get he stuff I have a few little rocks that I need to move but have nothing that will do more then make them shake. When I say little some are the size of a full size pickup
 
Yes we do. It's about as close to me as St. Louis. It's Bonne Terre Missouri. Apparently it means beautiful land. I haven't been through it enough to know about the explosives there.
 
Back in the 80s the first time I got the Ni-Pack stuff I had to drive there and fill out paper work. After that I could call them and they would meet me someplace close and I could order how much I wanted and pay the driver for it. But laws have changed a whole lot and I can not get the stuff any more. Sure would be nice if I could I have some small rocks I need to move and I have nothing that will most a rock the size of a pickup truck
 
1 stick of Ni-Pack was about the same as one stick of TNT. So yes it would make a very big bang. One time we where blowing some rock and had a rock go flying. It went straight up to the point we could not see it. Then we saw it and it landed in my small lake. Never have found it
 

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