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That's pretty steep. Just the other day I bought some good 5x6 brome bales (1400-1500 lbs) in Kansas for $70 each. I was surprised it was this cheap because we're in the grips of a serious drought and the hay yield is about half of normal for this area. Hay could be in short supply around here come later this year.
 
Hay yields are way down here in Missouri for the last 2 years. Been to hot and to dry this year and last year was about the same. Most years I get around 30-40 bales on my first cutting but last year and this year it was around 15.
 
Hay was short last year and very short this year. Right now its selling from 130 to 150 a ton. Lots of guys did not have any left over when grass season got here.
 
Some 4 X 4 bales mixed grass hay advertised in a local buy/sell for $15 each if they were picked up while the hay was in the field, once in the hay shed they would be $20.
 
Hay is usually kind of a waste product around here, bale the road ditches and low wet ground for grass. Dairy folk grow or contract their own alfalfa, and now a days put it up wet (silage or wet bales) as our climate is too wet and humid to make many dry bales dependably.

So that leaves a few hobby cattle and horse buyers for 'good' hay and alfalfa. Pretty small market and generally very cheap, $1.50 to $3 a small bale, mostly on the lower side.

With the very long winter and cold May no pasture growing, hay became short, and bales sold for big bucks! I saw $8 small squares, wow!

Now it has rained and rained and rained. Few of us have made 1st cutting of grass, should have 3 weeks ago. All over ripe and very soggy. First cutting of alfalfa should have been 4 weeks ago, should be starting 2nd cutting now. Some have zero cuttings, most have very poor rained on cutting, and field in terrible shape from mudding that out, windrows were laying 8 days or more.

So I wonder what hay will go for this winter?

We are in uncharted territory.

Paul
 
Anyone with hay to sell and close to MO just advertise on craigslist in MO. You can't get as much as you would here due to freight but market is very high. All you find advertised is high priced. Mostly want to buy ads. Lots of those. Any good grass or brome in KS I will send a semi for it. I planned on buying 200 5x6 this year but may sell all heifers instead and just go thru the winter with the milk cows on the high hay prices if not a change before Nov. I also use 3x3x8 in brome or grass. Good alfalfa is more available as it is pretty much always too high for the backyard beef guys. So not so worried about getting that. LB
 

I am selling small squares for $5.75 off the ground. My friend made a lot of bale age last year and he had to sell a lot at deep discount this spring. He is baling more small squares this year.
 
For less than about 40.00 for 4x4 bales I would let it set in the field and save my labor. Cost of land fuel twine mowing raking and putting in out of the weather I wouldn't sell for less than the 40on up. Off the field I would consider 30.00 this is for 4x4 I'll load it for the 30.00 on your wagon about it.
 
Last year I had trouble getting hay sold. This year I'm getting calls from strangers (never advertised) trying to buy hay I don't have. My brome looked good but only produced about 70% of what it normally produces. Lots of guys that used urea for fertilizer have fields that look like they didn't fertilize at all - and are getting about 50% of normal production.

If you think hay is high now - give it 4 months. Bother is selling semi loads of big squares to guys who are feeding it to their cattle on pasture. Extremely dry spring and putting cow out before the grass had a chance to grow much and now their fields are bare.
 
That is very high, around here 35.00 to 50.00 for the best hay, 1500+ lbs. Doesn't matter if it is twine or net wrapped.
 


You can buy decent grass hay in northern NY for $15.00 a bale out of the field. Trucking, that's the killer.
 
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