hay prices

mmidlam · Jan 17, 2014

at last Wednesdays hay auction, nice 3rd cutting alfalfa sold for $5.30 a bale. Tight 1st cutting 4x4 round bales, stored inside, sold for $30. Hay seems to be coming down from falls price.

Hotflashjr · Jan 17, 2014

I am in Mass and small squares are $5 and up. My buddy's wife with a horse was very happy to get 1st cutting for $6 picked up at the farm. We are seeing wrapped silage bales around $30-$40 and non-wrapped between $40-$50.

larryanderson · Jan 17, 2014

The hay auctions in Iowa report shows top quality alfalfa at up to $275 a ton with excellent grass hay at $175 a ton.The want ads have many large rounds advertised at $50 on up but quality and size would be the main factor.Corn at $4.30 has had an effect and lack of rain hurt our hay crop after the first cutting.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2014

hay is not movin in s, ind ,,. I have 1000 lbs clover / orchard grass bales @ $30,, and cant get a call,,. sqares of clover / alfalfa / orchard grass@ $ 4 bux ,, and barely movin with a customer each week ,.. t he ronds have to go

hd6gtom · Jan 17, 2014

hay prices are down I sold my LG rounds, grass hay, right out of the field for 60.00, they are bringing 50.00 or less now.

charlie n · Jan 17, 2014

They ain't settin' the world on fire here either.

http://www.hamiltonhayauction.com/

I'm glad we sold all of ours out of the field.

oldtanker · Jan 17, 2014

Not sure what the current prices are but we had a bad year for hay so I'm sure in the local area it's up. The BIL and I are both good on hay but I'm feeling sorry for the guys that ain't.

Rick

mmidlam · Jan 17, 2014

we should post location when talking hay price. I am located in lower Michigan.

Dave H (MI) · Jan 17, 2014

I had quite a year in 2013 with grass hay. Yield was way up on the old field and demand was high so I opened up a few acres I had not sold in a while. That last stuff was surprisingly weed free for being untouched a couple years. Sold every bale off the field. It was gone in two hours. I never loaded a bale and took the wagons back empty. Price was higher than I used to get a few years back when I loaded and delivered. Each year is different and the price goes up and down with demand BUT....

I could get used to that!

Jack in Colo · Jan 17, 2014

Eastern Colorado hay prices are still up pretty high, avg. $11 for small sq. grass hay and $120 per bale for 800lb 3x3x8 lg. sq. grass hay, the drought we had in 2012 was the worst here in a long time, I didn't put up a single bale that year, 2013 hay crop was ok but wasn't the best after the drought and was a little weedy.

2013 totals was down by about 30% from normal years but should be better this year I hope.

Larry NEIL · Jan 17, 2014

Still tight in my area. Haven't checked large rounds here for a while, but the best prices on sm. sq's is $7.00

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