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With fuel prices going up..did anybody elses hay prices increase?? Our supplier charged 50 cnts more per bale..and we picked it up out the field!!
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We paid an extra 15 cents a bale!
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That's a little step if you ask me! You get the same amount of hay on the ground per gollon of gas! But some people don't understand that! If you get 10 bale of hay per gallon of gas and the price increases $1.00 a gallon the cost per bale only goes up 10 cents on the average!

Bill
 
Well..our supplier/neighbor got "fancy" he just bought all the equipment that picks the bales up and loads/unloads..I guess it's just easier to blame the fuel prices
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Your proabaly right!
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Bill
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The winter hay rush is certainly on here. Every day I see truck loads going up and down the road, mostly round bails.

Christine, I just got 60 bales, my first attempt at stocking up for winter.

It is $4.00 a bail. That is orchard grass, 100% gaurenteed and tested fescue free with just a touch of volunteer timothy. It's clean and nice, 2nd cutting. The first cutting was not so good and the third cutting may have some issues too, so I am rushing to get the rest of the 2nd cutting asap.

I have thought I could do better price-wise but from experience I get stickers in it and weeds and crap and then I have had it not cut up enough and had long strands of hay. So I sucked it up and pay the price for this.

This hay man told me that it's up not due to gas, but due to increases on fertilizer and seed, and the hay string. Oh well......
 
I bought mine when 2nd was cut 4.00 bucks a bale delivered. Its such good hay. Next year oughta be fun, once it goes up it doesnt seem to come back down.
 
$241.00 for 1 ton (18 bales) of Eastern Oregon Orchard Grass hay. Granted some of the best stuff I have seen in awhile, as I am picky. But Bloomin Och!! Hope to get another ton next month.

Only buying hay just in case we end up with lots of snow up here and the horses can't get to the grass.

Buying hay at these prices, I do not think we will be able to put a new roof on the sheds like we planned. Sigh ~ ~
 
AS a farmer I know where they are coming from. You all realize of course that it takes a minimum of three trips over the field to bale hay. Possibly more depending on your haying equipment. All those trips over the field cost money. Our tank got empty so I took the tractor to fill at the coop cardloc pump. I stopped filling the tractor at a hundred dollars and it was half full. How much did you expect to pay for hay when thats what the man is doing for a living. I sell mine much cheaper but its to friends and neighbors. I am charging them $1.50 a bale and did the math and am coming out about .35 cents a bale ahead. Not getting rich on that. But I do not begrudge the people doing it for a living charging $4.00 a bale and have to truck it as well.
 
We got ours for $2.50 a bale. Cheapest you will find around here really. Super nice grassy/alfalfa/clover 2nd crop hay.
 
I paid $70 per ton of about 20-22 bales per ton. So that's . . . about $1.50 a bale I guess. I can't imagine paying $4.00 a bale. Ouch!
 
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I paid $70 per ton of about 20-22 bales per ton. So that's . . . about $1.50 a bale I guess. I can't imagine paying $4.00 a bale. Ouch!
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Hmm..if you paid 70.00 per 22 bales One bale is 3.18..or did I mis understand that??
 
We are in a share crop deal with ours but we pay the owner for 1/2 the crop. Which comes out $80/ton less 1/2 the expenses. But have a really good hay dealer that I buy from when we run out for $2.50 a bale which his bales weigh about 80 - 90 lbs.
 
You are so lucky. Hay here is 22/00 a bale for timothy and that was before the gas went up. Three way which is what the burros get is up to 13 from 7 .
 
Hi Christine,

I get all my hay for the year in August......the Only cutting here at 7500 feet and a very short growing season. Ours did not go up and is still $90 a ton (26 square bales). It is EXCELLENT grass hay....mostly timothy. I have to feed hay most of the year and buy one ton per mini. :)

Susan O.
 
$4-$5 per bale!!!!
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Ouch!

Here people pay $2.75 for timothy/alfalfa mix.

I am lucky though. My Dad puts up hay so I guess I could say ours is "free."
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I just bought some from the feed store and it was $10.95 a bale for 115lb bales of Eastern Oregon Grass hay. Nice stuff but OUCH!!! I was broke earlier when it was more available locally and about $80-90 a ton for the local grass. Now I will probably be getting from the hay dealer just out of town at about $100-$135 a ton for Orchard or whatever decent grass hay they have.

I sure liked it when I had a friend who had her field done and she sold me her half of the hay for $60 a ton, kept it in her barn and I just came and got a ton at a time. I wish she dind't move a couple years ago, and of course prices have went up since then too.

Sheri
 
We buy really nice local grass hay for 2.50 a bale, delivered. Thank goodness for Daryl -- he stores our hay and his in his barn, and we get a few bales at a time, since we have very limited hay storage. I'll probably supplement this with some orchard grass hay, but this is great stuff -- soft with no big stems and no weeds. The horses love it, but if they hear about the stuff Shari bought, they're going to want to go there for dinner!

Sherri, when we lived in town we bought from a guy in Molalla, and he too had very nice grass hay at about 2.50-3.00 per bale, and he didn't mind small purchases.
 
We just got a ton(80 bales) in for $9.00 a bale. It actually wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be. This is(so far) really nice alfalfa, a little loose, but nicely cured and not over mature(fine stemmed). And its the good green once you get past the yellow sun tan.

I wish we could get hay for 1-5 bucks a bale!!!
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