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Location: In The Snow, AZ | What are you all paying right now?
We bought enough for the winter @ $14.00 a bale for 3 string Alfalfa. But took on BILs horse. Our stock dwindled. Go to purchase hay and it is $19.99 a bale. Hoping everyone gets enough moisture this year and fuel cost stay low enough to get some better priced hay....soon, or I may have to decide which arm I'm willing to sell. |
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Location: Kentucky | I'm paying $3.00 for #50 pound square bale of grass hay. My round bales are kept inside and I pay $30.00 each. They are roughly 900-1000 pounds, grass hay. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We haven't found a hay source at our new location yet so we're buying at the feed store. Regular 50lb grass hay for $9 a bale. It's killing us too. We're looking forward to finding a good one and buying it more like $3-5 a bale out of the field. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | We paid $160 a ton for some really nice 2 string alfalfa so about $5.00 a bale. We also get big round bales from the same guy (they are grass with a little alfalfa in them) for about the same a ton.
If we don't start getting some moisture hay prices are going to sky rocket again. |
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| Yall's alfalfa is cheap! I am in the Houston area, paid $27 for 3 string alfalfa at the feed store last week. A friend was having a load of 3 string shipped in and was selling it for $20/ bale. I usally get a 1 ton bale from a friend every year whose husband goes and gets a load, I think I paid $350 it.
We grow our own coastal but bales sell on average for 6 or 7 dollars. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | My dad sells bermuda grass round bales... But he won't let me pay him when he brings me some! That helps tremendously since they're on that free choice.
I buy my alfalfa square bales at a feed store for $7.95. It's much cheaper than buying the Standlee bales at TSC, but I do hope to get more prepared next year and buy from out in the field or by the ton. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I was paying $22.99 for 3 string 110 pound bermuda in Southern California. Found really nice 1400lb bermuda round bales in OK and I pay $95 a bale |
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Location: Kansas | alfalfa here is anywhere from $7-$9 a bale. I feed 1500lb bales of brome for $25 each. One round bale will last the 3 in my pasture a few weeks. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I wish I could even FIND round bales nearby. I'd love to get my hands on a couple. Especially during the winter months. Anything I have found is a couple hundred a bale and a weekends worth of driving. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | up here it ranges from 4 to 6 cents a pound.....
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | $45 for 3x3x8 bermuda and $110 for 4x4x8 alfalfa |
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| I pay $8 a 60 pound bale of fertilized, irrigated coastal delivered. This is a bargain as far as I am concerned. |
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| Southern California:
21-22 a bale for good alfalfa
Orchard 24-27 a bale
Bermuda 15 a bale but refuse to feed it. Colic costs way more than 15.00 |
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Location: Kansas | $4.50 for brome small squares (70 pounds) and $3.50 for prairie |
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Location: NC | last weekend i paid 10.35 for 2nd cut alfalfa and the 2nd cut timothy/grass was 10.75. this is square bales that are lucky to weigh 50lbs.. it ranges usually from 9-15 a bale for small squares. No one on the island sells round bales either |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| I'm paying $32 a bale for 3 strand alfalfa, $20 delivery, and $1.50 a bale stacking fee. Usually about $670 for 20 bales. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | luckyjo - 2015-02-23 11:30 AM I'm paying $32 a bale for 3 strand alfalfa, $20 delivery, and $1.50 a bale stacking fee. Usually about $670 for 20 bales.
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Location: Oklahoma | We have a hay auction every Saturday, and thats where I get my hay from. Depending on the weather and the amount of people determins what the prices look like that week. They pretty much have the same suppliers bringing the same hay every week. I get HUGE 1500 lbs, barn kept, round bales of bermuda that range anywhere from $35 (when the weather is really crappy) to $60 (I paid $100+ for the same hay last year).Local so-so alfalfa squares (about 60-70lb bales) are bringing $4-5.50. Good (not-local 70ish lbs bales) alfalfa squares are bringing $6-7.50. And native prarie hay is around $3.50-4.50 a square for 50lb bales, and burmuda about $7ish.
I picked up some really nice prarie squares for $2.50 this last weekend. I'm fixing to move to Southern Texas....and I plan on stuffing every open crevice in my truck/trailer full of hay before I leave! lol |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | osu_barrelracer - 2015-02-23 2:16 PM
We have a hay auction every Saturday, and thats where I get my hay from. Depending on the weather and the amount of people determins what the prices look like that week. They pretty much have the same suppliers bringing the same hay every week. I get HUGE 1500 lbs, barn kept, round bales of bermuda that range anywhere from $35 (when the weather is really crappy) to $60 (I paid $100+ for the same hay last year).Local so-so alfalfa squares (about 60-70lb bales) are bringing $4-5.50. Good (not-local 70ish lbs bales) alfalfa squares are bringing $6-7.50. And native prarie hay is around $3.50-4.50 a square for 50lb bales, and burmuda about $7ish.
I picked up some really nice prarie squares for $2.50 this last weekend. I'm fixing to move to Southern Texas....and I plan on stuffing every open crevice in my truck/trailer full of hay before I leave! lol
Where in OK are you? I think a hay auction is a brilliant idea. |
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Location: Oklahoma | oija - 2015-02-23 3:56 PM osu_barrelracer - 2015-02-23 2:16 PM
We have a hay auction every Saturday, and thats where I get my hay from. Depending on the weather and the amount of people determins what the prices look like that week. They pretty much have the same suppliers bringing the same hay every week. I get HUGE 1500 lbs, barn kept, round bales of bermuda that range anywhere from $35 (when the weather is really crappy) to $60 (I paid $100+ for the same hay last year).Local so-so alfalfa squares (about 60-70lb bales) are bringing $4-5.50. Good (not-local 70ish lbs bales) alfalfa squares are bringing $6-7.50. And native prarie hay is around $3.50-4.50 a square for 50lb bales, and burmuda about $7ish.
I picked up some really nice prarie squares for $2.50 this last weekend. I'm fixing to move to Southern Texas....and I plan on stuffing every open crevice in my truck/trailer full of hay before I leave! lol
Where in OK are you? I think a hay auction is a brilliant idea.
Its just south of Stillwater. Its a general consignment auction, but they sell poultry and hay too. Hay sells every Saturday at noon. They have a few big farms that bring a set amount every week, and then you get a variety of what local guys are wanting to sell, as well as big shipments from other states randomly. I love it. Its easier and cheaper, and some good quality hay. I've been buying hay from there for almost five years now. |
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