hay pricing

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2012

How many buy their hay by pound. It makes sense as the size of bale doesn't matter.How much per pound does hay sell for.It is 1st cut mixed grass with some timothy.We are near Ottawa Ontario Canada.

Zachary Hoyt · Jul 13, 2012

I am familiar with hay being sold by the ton, but have never heard of it being done by the pound. Would you weigh each bale individually?
Zach

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2012

100kg and ton here... Usually the 100kg because rolls usually are 350kg....
Most folks won't charge the full price tho unless they are hay producers (fertilizer, all new equip, yadda yadda)

IE, talking 13 bucks /100kg = 45 bucks a roll... I bought all mine for 32 except for 20 that were 35 each.......

WyoDave · Jul 13, 2012

It's a volume thing. In this area, most producers are large, and hay is always sold by the ton, for the most part in semi load lots. Weigh the truck empty, weigh the truck full. I had never heard of selling by the bale till I started frequenting this forum.
David

Allan in NE · Jul 13, 2012

Hi Dave,

Lady told me yesterday she bought 2 loads. $8K.

Allan

Vernon in Ks · Jul 13, 2012

$80-100 a ton for round Bluestem grass hay here in Ks. $100-125 a ton for round Brome. Squares are higher by $15-20 a ton.

LazyWP · Jul 13, 2012

Heard of a guy over towards Merriman Nebraska, that turned $160/ton down in the field. Did you get any wheat this year Allen?

Kerry50 · Jul 13, 2012

A friend of mine just bought second cutting of fescue and clover in the Kansas City area, $80 a ton plus trucking.

Allan in NE · Jul 13, 2012

It would have been damned good wheat, but I cut 'er all for hay.

It's gonna be touch and go; darned pastures are all but gone now.

Yeah, local guy is charging $90 a bale for new hay. Another wants $60 a ton for 5-year old junk.

Allan

Wheat Farmer · Jul 13, 2012

Sounds like I could ship hay in from back East cheaper than around here. I had to pay $11 a bale, and the bales averaged 69.5lbs weight 12 (51-81 lbs)I do MY numbers per lbs, but think I should be weighing the whole load. One Alpaca will eat 2.2 lbs per day. I use that number to buy my hay for the year. 2.2 x 280 x 365 = 224840 x $0.16 =$35,974.40. Numbers have worked for 16 years. Ya I do the ton thing too.
Do have a scale 1 mile away. Want to start getting 3x3x8. One guy in the area is asking $184 for them about 720 lb bales. That would be about $16 for a 60 lbs small bale. He thinks he can get $20 in January. He might not be happy seeing Truck for the East.

MN Scott · Jul 13, 2012

Wouldn't selling it by the ton and by the pound be the same thing? A ton is 2000 pounds so if you weighed your hay and it came to say 1 ton 450 lbs or 2450lbs you would just divide your per ton price by 2000 to get your per pound price. So say $200 a ton is 10 cents a pound. So 2450X.10=$245.

WyoDave · Jul 13, 2012

Terribly dry over here this year. First cutting is $200 a ton. We're grazing emergency CRP ground, it's dry old grass, but at least it's something.
David

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 13, 2012

Thats about right, we charge 120$ a ton for small squares out of our barn. Much cheaper out of the field.

730-LP · Jul 13, 2012

Bought 162 4 X 5 round bales[800 lb]for $15.00 +$3.00 fuel to get them home.In East Tn.

Errin OH · Jul 13, 2012

Folks who know buy by the ton. Folks who don't by the bale. Seen it to many times to count. Guy calls around and ask how much a bale one says $3 next says $4, so they go with the $3 bales that weigh a wopping 40lbs over the 80lb $4 bales ($150 a ton for light bales/ $100 for heavy). I have a friend that, even after 10 years, still doesn't get it and I don't even try to explain it anymore.

Pair-a-dice farm · Jul 13, 2012

Obviously buy/sell by the ton is the best way. But around here it has always been sold by the bale. Most people I know that buy hay have enough sense to know what kind of bale a baler puts up. A 4x5 M&W bale won't have nearly as much as a 4x5 Vermeer. I've gone to the trouble of weighing hay but usually spend more in gas chasing down a set of scales than the +/- of the hay. I would have to drive 60 miles round trip to the nearest set of scales.

Tx Jim · Jul 13, 2012

(quoted from post at 10:24:04 07/13/12) Bought 162 4 X 5 round bales[800 lb]for $15.00 +$3.00 fuel to get them home.In East Tn.

If those 162 bales had fertilizer on the them someone lost a lot of $$$$$$$$$. I charge $22 per 4X5.5 bale to cut rake & bale.

Jimmy King · Jul 13, 2012

I saw a load on the side of the Will Rogers TP Wed afternoon that could have been bought cheep. Until the FD got done hosing it down.

kyplowboy · Jul 13, 2012

Every one around here sells by the bale, I loosly buy by the ton or lb. If there are two guys ask'n $30 a bale for the same type/quality of hay I will ask what kind of baler they have and look at the hay. I will pay alot more for a round bale out of say a 605M than I will for one out of a 851. I never buy hay over the phone with out looking at it. In years where there is plenty of hay around I will buy one load, co-op 5 miles from the house has scales in the parking lot with a digital display in the window that stays on 24-7. If two guys have same type/quality hay about the same distance from home and are asking the same price I will buy a load from each, swing by the co-op on the way home and call the one with the heavier bales and buy all I need from him.

Dave

LazyWP · Jul 13, 2012

I have a cousin north of Hemingford, that baled all his wheat too, but he said there wasn't much of a chance of making a crop anyway.

old harv · Jul 13, 2012

I understand hay is 12-14 cents per pound in southern Ontario because of drought and I expect it to be that much here in Temiskaming to for the same reason. People are making silage of their oats because there is no grain in the heads. I would guess it will depend on how dry it is in your area.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 13, 2012

I am selling surplus grass hay,$20.00 per bale 4x4 soft core,or .05 per pound over the scale. Most bales weigh in over 500lb, so if they want to pay more for grass hay , I will let them pay more. Bruce

Bruce from Can. · Jul 13, 2012

Hey Old Harv, Bride and I are going on a sight see tour up in your neck of the woods next week . Anything special to see?? Bruce

Bill in Colo · Jul 13, 2012

The plant center here sold hay off 80 acres,two cuts on a sealed bid for $ 109 per ton on the stump. buyer will move it 34 miles to their ranch
One friend sold 2010 barn stored round bales at 180 per ton based on weight in the barn.

UP Oliver · Jul 15, 2012

Sorry for coming in here off topic, but I have a question for WyoDave and don"t know how else to reach him.

Dave, just wondered if I could ask a few questions about your building; you put pictures on back in January.

I don"t know if you"ll see this, but if you feel like answering a few questions, I put my email in the box.

Thanks

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