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mudcreek183

mudcreek183

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Went into T.S.C. today to pickup a couple of chain links and what a surprice they had them but now they are selling square bale of hay on the sales floor for $7.00 a bale it was not bad look grass hay but $7.00 a little high hay in my area is bring about $4.00 now anyone else see this?
 
Funny... we saw the same thing this weekend. Only they were selling the same stuff for 9.45 per bail. Also just grass, and not nearly as heavy or as long as a normal quare bale.

Was thinking we should have baled our field drives and ditches for that kind of money.
 
Yup...............I think it was $7.99 locally here.....and it was about 2/3 of a normal bale......was listed as timothy but looked like orchard grass....
 
That's a pretty normal mark up- farmer sells to the store for 4, store marks up to 7 or 8 or 9. Pretty much how "retail" works.

Farmer doesn't have a store to support.
 
Went to an auction a week ago Saturday.

Small square bales of prairie hay and alfalfa both were going for $7 to $8 per bale in 25 bale lots.
 
Straw brings $4 a bale off the farm in my area - and you load it.

Any decent type of brome or native grass is going at least $5 a bale and as high as $8.

By late January I think we'll be looking back at this as the time we should have bought more.
 
I don't think they assume customers will buy them for animal feed, but... front lawn nativity/manger scenes, targets for archery practice, backstop on a driveway hockey rink- not for people to make a bulk tank of milk.....
 
They've had a trailer on there here since June.Bales weight about 30 lbs. and pure junk.$9.28 a bale.
Last week at the local auction alfalfa squares went for $5.25-$6.00.I left mine in the shed.
 
2 small squares I bought last night at Ranchers Supply in LaJunta, Colorado $14.00 each. Wheat straw $9.00 per small square. Bought 8 bales last week for a community hayride.
 
Ore you can bee like me and spell it each weigh once.

Even a secretary makes mistakes at the end of the day... bale or bail - I think everyone understood.
 
Sweetfeet's comment about baleing drives and ditches reminded me of something that I thought of several years ago. Ever wonder how much hay you could get if you were allowed to cut and bale the cloverleaf areas on a major four lane highway? I know, I know, there several factors which would make it impractical, I guess, but there is a lot of acreage there, all totaled.
 
The guy I get my big rounds from, has two big barns full of small squares at $5.00 a bale, all local grass hay mostly orchard and timothy. I give him $50.00 for the 1000 lb rounds. pepole coming for hay all week long, and usually haul in pickups.( urban horse folks) Scott will still have hay in June.
 
i remember in the late 60's riding with Dad in the semi out west. they were baling the inter-state along RT 70 back then.
 
Saw that within the past 3 years here, by Mankato MN they were baling hay off the ditch, median, and cloverleaf area.

We use hay off the road ditches around ere a lot.

---aul
 
We sold alfalfa bales that weighed 80-90 lbs for around $100 a ton in the late '70s, so $3.50 to $4.50 a bale. With inflation, I would guess that is close to $8 bucks a bale now. How someone would pay that much for a 30 lb bale of grass now is unreal.
 

That's not a bad price at all for a retail store. As someone else said they have their store overhead, and profit is not a dirty word. Now if you were to ask how about if I were to take 300 what would the price be? Then it would drop some. Wait 'till March, it will be a lot higher. Wholesale and trucking company that my friends operate nearby had 50# grass at $12.00 about two years ago in March. Helps me to raise my price come June LOL
 
7.99 doesn't sound that bad for a retail store. We're selling some real nice 2nd cut for $6.00/bale, 4x4 round 1st cut for $45.00 and wheat squares for $3.00. It's a good year to have hay.
 
I have so many related rants that I just don't know where to begin...

First off, it's not a sin to make a profit. You're spending $3+ a bale to make it, and every other business on the planet sells things based on what it cost to produce, plus overhead, plus a profit. Only farmers sell things at a loss and are happy about it.

"I just sold 1000 bales at $2 a bale! Look, I have $2000! That's a lot of money!" Dude, you spent $3000 on fuel and twine to make that hay...

Second off, horse people. Horse people wouldn't know a good bale of hay if it hit them in the head. Horse people will pay $7.99 a bale at TSC for rained-on bedding but won't give a farmer $4 a bale for good stuff because it's "dusty." Then they expect the farmer to load it, haul it, deliver it, and stack it for them for that $4 a bale.

I am sick of horse people crying on craigslist, looking for cheap hay because they didn't plan ahead and can't afford to feed their worthless pets. You offer them cheap hay and they won't take it, not good enough for their pweshus howrsie.
 
Around here, if TSC was selling squares for $7.00, they would run out in about 24 hrs.

In our area, TSC sells squares for $9.50 a bale and rounds are $99 a bale.
 
Rest assured Nancy, you are far too intelligent and honorable to be a horse person. Horse ownership does not make one a horse person.

Horse people will drive junk cars (and I mean JUNK, things that have no business being on the road), let their houses fall down, let their children go hungry and unclothed to make sure their horses have the best of everything.

Horse people are always looking for something for nothing. They want the farmer to sell them the best hay for $1 a bale, then fuss and complain about a little dust. They have no way to haul the hay, so you have to deliver. They wait until it's in the barn before, "Oh gee, I seem to be a little short..." and stiff you on the bill.

You, Nancy, are no horse person.
 
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