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tarabella

Joined: 04 Nov 2009
Posts: 141
Location: Southam, Warwickshire

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 11 8:40 pm Post subject: What Are You Charging / Paying For Hay This Year?
Sold our first bales of hay this year - got ï¿½4.50/bale, which I thought was reasonable as it's going to be in short supply this winter. What's everyone else charging/paying for theirs?

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 11 9:25 pm Post subject:

depends on the area and the scare mongering i guess

We paid ï¿½25 per large round bale last winter and our farmer says his price is fixed for this year too

more local farmersare cutting for haylage this year than last around here, maybe it's the case elsewhere too where the grass is growing, after all the price hay went for down south last year will no doubt have encouraged more farmers to produce more - so the price should stay the same at least

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 11 9:41 pm Post subject:
Slightly off topic but we gave a lift to our local farmer today who told me it cost 13ï¿½ per large round bale (about 12 quid) for it to be baled and bound in plastic - not sure what it would sell for once baled.

northmoor

Joined: 08 Aug 2008
Posts: 380

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 11 10:53 am Post subject:
ï¿½4.50 golly did you use that new gold threaded bale band

Spruengli

Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 537
Location: Dorking(ish)

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 11 12:23 pm Post subject:
Still being charged ï¿½7.50 a bale here

northmoor

Joined: 08 Aug 2008
Posts: 380

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 11 1:47 pm Post subject:

Spruengli wrote:

Still being charged ï¿½7.50 a bale here

Lordy were are you? I will sell you hay

how much do you want

We are doing large bale haylege again this year as its easier to store and doesn't take up shed space..... At the prices quoted above for small bales I am wondering at my choice.

giveitago

Joined: 02 Jan 2011
Posts: 151
Location: surrey

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 11 8:11 pm Post subject:

Dont know how much we'll get as waiting for sunshine. If we get an average yeild it works out at around ï¿½3.20 each COST. Thats machinery, fertiliser, rent, labour etc so i would think mate rate will be ï¿½3.50 off the field, ï¿½4-5 per bale from the barn, depending on local prices and thats only if we have excess over what i need for the winter.

Local suppliers are selling between ï¿½6.50 to ï¿½8 per bale, last years cut.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:44 am Post subject:
We just paid ï¿½6.90 per bale.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 10:00 am Post subject:
we're not selling any, and and doing everything possible not to buy, as it'll be pricey!

giveitago

Joined: 02 Jan 2011
Posts: 151
Location: surrey

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 3:01 pm Post subject:
actual cost price after everything was ï¿½4.41 per bale. Local tack shop is selling last years meadow at ï¿½6.99 each

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 9:32 pm Post subject:
paying ï¿½6 for last years.... not got a price for this years yet...

Mr O

Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 5512
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 11 12:02 am Post subject:
Just bought 300 bales at can $ 2.25 per bale about ï¿½ 1.50 per bale.

Castle Farm

Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 457
Location: Powys/Hereford Border.Near Hay-on-Wye

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 11 8:19 am Post subject:

There is plenty of hay around Mid Wales with some in and some still to get.

There are people scare mongering that it will be in short supply again this year, but thats a load of manure.

I didn't bother to cut this year (15 acres) and have already booked mine and it's a very good crop, bought in large square bales, they are commercial, but easier to handle than the big round bales.

The small bales are used more by smallholders than farmers and the costs are about ï¿½1 per bale to harvest (local contractor) and I think ï¿½3 is average around here.

Any hay still out there has, by now started to thicken in the stem and is not the best quality, so buyer beware.

It's a buyers market, so don't get conned into paying big money.

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 11 8:52 am Post subject:
hay around here is in short supply so costs have gone up this years hay will be ï¿½3.00 - ï¿½4.50 depending on quality. our usual supplier has turned people away and the feed merchants are very low on stock already, so its a sellers market in this area .

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