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Stuff climbs every year in price. Cheapest I could find was $305 / ton for 3 x 3 x 8 bales, 800 pound grass, last year's barn stored hay. Farm store, Big R wanted $150 each. .

I switched to cubes for my old mule, less waste and he does better on them and eats less, but those were $400/T but will work out to about the same money feeding.PIA soaking them twice day though

Guys complain about paying $600 to rent a horse for a 10 day hunt. Cost me twice that much to feed two for a year and I pasture them for 2.5 months

I been letting a neighbor cut 42 acres just to keep it clean .

There isn't much grass hay for sale here yet but what's for sale is running about 225.Alfalfa's about the same

$320/T in the field here, if they are actual 50#ers, and available for a few days a year, on good years.

~900# rounds for $180. May go up this year with fertilizer and fuel costs.

nw Ia prices I have some 1500 # grass red clover hay 15 bales put up right at 150$ ton and I load.

You can pay all the freight you want

nw Ia prices I have some 1500 # grass red clover hay 15 bales put up right at 150$ ton and I load.

You can pay all the freight you want

You are making me jealous.

the sky is the limit on this years hay crop ,1rst cutting was dismal , Dakotas and western Ia. , and there mostly wont be 2nd cutting in these parts...........

Heat?

no rain and heat ....the dryest spring in maybe 120 years , and hot

quite a few days early June were 100...........normal for that time upper seventies

ass kicking long term drought in most of North Dakota

It’s gone up here too but our problem was too much rain to get the first cutting in.
Got what I needed but with increases in diesel and fertilizer costs I don’t expect prices to drop.

Paid $155 a ton last year for idiot squares. Alfalfa/grass mix, light on the alfalfa. Best and most consistent hay farmer I've ever bought from.

Haven't asked him yet if price is going up this year, doubt it. I need to source someone else for big rounds now, but I'll still get 3 ton of the small squares.

I thought we had it bad. 3x3 bales are $100 3 strand bales are $21 and 21 bundle 2 strand bales are $210. All alfalfa.

I’m getting $40 a wet ton on the stump for premium alfalfa in MI. I’m probably selling it too cheap.

The last couple of years I've fed Teff to my llamas as they waste less of it. It's an annual so farmers switch it in their rotation and you never know who will have it this year. It's too early for it this year. Right now I only see 2 adds for it on CL and both are in the Boise area, about 150 miles away. Around $250/ton.

With the severe drought conditions all throughout the Southwest, horse and cattle feed prices are going to be through the roof this year. On my farm, we grow not only alfalfa, but have started growing feed crops like Triticale and Kanex, which take less water than alfalfa, and are able to sell the stuff as fast as we can cut and bale it.
I fear that the perfect storm of regional drought, high and increasing demand for meat products, and water shortages are going to do nothing but continue to escalate both product and feed prices.

Afraid you are right.Even in good years, around here,a lot of the hay is bought up and shipped out to other states where the hay crop has been nonexistent

I paid $180 a ton for my 8 ton of premium oat hay I just put up 'in the milk.'

My supplier upped her prices $20 a ton due to the terrible drought and all-around inflation, but I knew I was getting a great buy even with the increase....

Farm news this morning talked of 10 dollar small squares.

I'm needing some grass hay. The prices I'm seeing on CL are 275 to 300/ton. The 3d cutting isn't in yet, though. It might drop. We still have good irrigation water around here.

Welcome to this place good Sir!

They are $13 here

Sure would like to sell hay out y'all's way. I have to haul hay 2 hours just to get $130 ton for excellent grass hay.

We won't put up any hay this year, we cant give it away, everyone has had good rains and there's hay every where, we are pasturing our hay fields this year. Rio7

Texas deserves a good hay year.Too many years without one

Saddlesore, That's for Damn sure. Rio7

Damn, but honestly that's what we're seeing up here overall price wise as well.
We buy from the same source every year and she didn't gouge us even though she could have.

My supplier told me that she was getting calls on 'second cutting' alfalfa and grass, and she just laughed. She was lucky to just get a first cutting with our dry conditions. Second/third cuttings don't exist in most places in the Panhandle this Summer.

Second cut small squares were $6 in the field here. Imagine they will hit $10 once they are being loaded out of barns for people who can’t store a winters worth.

I bought western Kansas alfalfa last week for $248 per ton. I don’t have to have a lot of alfalfa this time of year but do keep yearlings on it and the foals when I wean them which is coming up.