what is hay prices in your area

Dave

Keith & Shawn

this is a field of alfalfa/1800 lb bales. SE WA about 50 N of me.

So. Wisconsin

My wife and I have a goat dairy farm, and we're down to 1/3 of peak production. We'll have to dry off by February, as goats are seasonal milkers, and we won't start freshening until April, but the goats still gotta eat. We also raise fiber sheep, and we won't have fleeces to sell until June, so it's a long, hard, expensive winter.

Going rate is 50-120 per round bale. Doesnt matter what the round bale is, its how desperate the guy wanting it is. I had a wagon load I bought down by the road asking 65 a roll for some weedy late cut 4x5's. One guy stopped and said that was mighty high and he'd call back. Before he pulled out the next guy pulled in and paid cash on the spot. Been that way all winter. Squares 6-10, when you can get them. Been a guy coming into the Kroger parking lot with a semi load out of Illinois, getting 6.00 cash on the spot and he never sits more than 3 hrs.

State rankings for beef cows, numbers expressed times 1000.

1. Texas 5,303 2. Missouri 2,146 3. Oklahoma 2,000 4. Nebraska 1,940 5. South Dakota 1,669 6. Kansas 1,500 7. Montana 1,382
8. Kentucky 1,207
9. Tennessee 1,153

Source:
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Kentucky/Publications/Annual_Statistical_Bulletin/B2007/p060.pdf

Rolls of hay doesnt matter whether they are 4x4 or 6x6 starting price is $45 to $50 per roll and goes higher. Square bales good luck finding any less then 6.50 a bale. If you want it delivered then its even higher. This for all types and mixes of hay. Now you can find Trash hay for less.

Talked to a guy last week who sold 100 5x5 rolls of orchard grass that had been kept outside for 3 years for $45/roll.

I just sold 50 barn kept 4x4 rolls of orchard grass and timothy hay for $55 to one of the local horse folks.

There was a big add in the local paper back in December with local horse folks complaining about the outrages prices of hay. One guy who was interviewd said it was highway robbery and there was no sense in farmers charging such ridiculous prices for hay.