The drought continues to bake much of the U.S., slashing the prospects and raising the prices for most field crops. This week’s online poll question asks: “What’s your local price for good grass hay?”
Be sure to leave your thoughts on the topic in the comments section.
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Hard to feed that 12$ hay just cringe everytime cut a set of wires
Hay is currently selling for $325 per ton on the western slope of Colorado if you can find it.
small squares sold for 12.00 per bale at an auction barn
Central Montana: Emergency CRP opened up so everybody ran out and set fires with their swathers trying to cut it. Alfalfa/grass mix $150 locally
Platte Valley Central Ne we have alfalfa in large rounds for $220/ ton or more if you can find a seller. Supply is about 60% normal.
200- 250 a ton in wyoming Look to way what are cattle prices doing diesel price insurance what is cost to put the hay up. Hay should be around 300 dollare a ton THINK!!
Watch for hay theft. It happened to me last year and I caught the thieves. The county attorney let them go because he knows them and I have not been compensated. It was even a repeat offense for them but the law does nothing because of who they are.
Northern Mi small sqs 5 to 7 $. 4x5 rounds very scarce at 50 to 65$
Paid $170 for first round of alfalfa...next round will be $200 and had trouble finding that....
Still recovering from 2002 drought (financially) and from 2011. This year water sources more scare than last year.
We've been pretty dry up here in North East PA, but as of late have had some benificial rains. Unfortunatley a few of the showers were accompanied by tornado's, but I guess we'll take the good with the bad! We're currently experiencing hay prices that usually don't hit these high's until after the first of the year. Mixed Grass hay is averaging $250 a ton, and alfalfa is averaging $235 a ton.
We're fortunate that we only need to run as many head of Beefalo cattle as we have pasture and hay fields for. In my opinion, I feel that if more producers lived within their "means", (don't raise more livestock than you can produce feed stuff's for), we wouldn't have the drastically fluctuating cattle and hay prices we experience every year. We need to stop relying on other folks to take care of our needs. Don't be dependent on others, it's never a profitable venture. At least not for you!
South Central Missouri has no local hay. Imported hay from OK, MS is running $180-$200 delivered.
Wheat hay from $50.00 to $80.00 for a 1100 # bale. Starting to bale corn leaves and stocks. Fortunately was blessed with good wheat hay crop this spring. August 1st and cows are attacking hay as if the dead of winter. It is going to get ugly.
The Houston area has been blessed with rain......have not offered any 2012 hay....still attempting to recover from 2011. Ouch.
Currently selling tifton (in field) $5.00 for a square bale weight 50 to 60 pounds. Selling 4 by 5 round bales for $50 (stored in barn). Limited supply. Hay crop currently about 50% of normal. If we do not receive rain will not sell over 50 more rolls.
We raise grass hay and have price what we have at $150/ton
I sold 23 big round rolls, fescue , for $ 40.00 each, which was all that I could spare. Hoping for another mild winter. Got to help your neighbor.
Big rds (14-1600#) early were at 50-80 and now none can be found. CRP just opened up so should open some up but quality will be ??. Have not picked up on $$. This area most will try to grass if fence and water.
had some offered in washington state for 16 dollars a 110 lb bale. Generally most good grass hay runs 200 or higher
It is over $200/ton in north central NE, if you can find any, which we can't.
we only have 100 bales left out of 1,000. selling 1,000 round bales at $45 plus cost of loading. some last years hay left at 35 but will sell out by Sept. 30. (eastern Ohio)
Went to a farm sale last week and year old brome hay (big round bales) sold for $87.50 per bale.
We're in Southeast Texas; we've finally been blessed with some rain. We've been selling 5x6 rounds of cow hay for $55/bale.
Sellin Hybrid Beemuda for $5 a small square
Small squares are going for $3.00/each right now in central PA.
I paid $180/ton last load I bought
It depends on the package of course. Big rounds are the most economical cost per ton, small squares are the most expensive.
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