How much do YOU pay for hay?

Question

so we all know hay prices have skyrocketed, and are now even more absurd than before.

how much are you paying these days?

i have it good and we've made a deal with a neighbor. we're paying $2.75 a bale. it's mediocre quality, but it get's our guys through the winter looking ok. everywhere else around here it's pushing $9 a bale for a timothy/orchard grass mix

wow, i just love this question thing xD

Answer 1

for a rectangular bale of lucerern hay in -brisbane queensland Austrlia- its $18.50 because of the drought!

Answer 2

I'm in northern MD and am paying $5 a bale for grass hay and $50 for a roundbale.  Luckily the rain has been good and I have grass.  Not really feeding hay right now.

Answer 3

In MICHIGAN I get hay at $2.50 a square bale and $25 a round bale! Hope I helped!

Answer 4

$6/bale for very good quality orchard grass bales in central MD.  I've only bought one load so far this year and that's the same price as last year.  I was hoping it would come down a bit since the weather is much better so far this year, but the farmer cites high fuel and fertilizer prices.  Year before last, I paid $3.50/bale for this same hay.

Answer 5

the cheapest square bales we can find here in Indiana are $8.50 a bale.....  isnt that crazy?

Answer 6

Gah...I live in central Oregon and right now where I am working they pay about $260 for a ton of hay (good quality)...three twined bales at about 130 lbs. per bale.  It's like putting gas in your car.

Answer 7

Nearly $300/ton in So Utah [alfalfa/alfalfa mx] we've seen nearly 100% increase in the last year

Answer 8

i know this is outragous! we've been having the prises push over here like that too.. i don't know what to do.. i hope we don't have to sell any horses but what is there to do about this? good luck to you!

Answer 9

The drought last year really killed the fields. (NC-USA)

Mine looks like c**p.  Weeds galore.

COASTAL:

I managed to hoard away enough to get me to March but then I had to buy.

I was given the cheap price of $40 for the round bale while others were told $50 (he hays my field so I'm buying back my own hay!)

Small bales were getting $4.50 a bale.

In the fall it was $80 for a round bale of coastal and $8 for a small square!  Hay was in high demand.  Some farmers were holding the hay back waiting for the best time to sell.  

Lots of starving horses around here too. :(

People trucking in Timothy are paying something like $12 a bale.

Just pulled in 4 round bales and gave my farmer the rest.

It's a bad cut (weedy) but the next cut will be good and small bales.  :)

Answer 10

I'm moving to where some of you live..I'm in California and alfalfa is between 16.00 and 20 dollars a bale, timothy/orchard 21 dollars a bale.  I buy grass to and i think it was 13 dollars a bale.

Answer 11

I just moved to central Oklahoma from Austin Texas.  We paid $7 for 50lb bales of coastal grass last year in Austin, $4 for 60lb bales of orchard grass last winter in Stillwater.  I am growing my own this year but the gas to bale it OUCH. I am from Illinois and have friends there who are paying $2.50 -$3.00 for 75lb bales of orchard grass and $3.75 for alfalfa.

Answer 12

pay $2.25 for timothy mix square bale around 80lbs, and if we take them off the trailor, we can get seconds for a $1.75

oh ya im from north eastern ohio

Answer 13

$7 a bale. I live in Colorado

Answer 14

I can hardly imagine what hay prices will be this year...no doubt through the roof.  Here in Central Oregon, good grass hay/timothy mix, last year's cut is going for $200 to $245 a ton retail..that's right, last years cut....

Answer 15

We grow and bale our own hay.  I figure that this year it will cost me about $2 a bale to put up if we don't loose any to rain or drought.  Hay is extremely high here now since we usually can bale first crop the last week in May and this year it still isn't ready to cut and it's the middle of June!

It might interest people to know that it takes about 3 hours of my time to put up 100 bales from cutting to raking to baleing to putting up into the mow,  if nothing much breaks.

Answer 16

$6.50 for a 50lb bag of alfalfa hay cubes.

$22.50 for a bale of grass hay

$25 for a bale of alfalfa

I wish we had it for $9 a bale...

I'm in NV

Answer 17

Wow, Hay is soo expensive!  In California we just paid to have 285 tons delivered of good quality alfalfa at just under $17/bale. approx 120 lb bales. I know people who are paying up to $22 for forage and grass type hays.  It's insane!

Other answerers let us know your location!

Answer 18

The last time I bought hay was early 2007. We were buying 5x4 feet round bales. At that time, they were $17 per bale.

I can just imagine what the prices are now. And that is the only reason that I am glad I no longer own my horses.

Answer 19

I live in Indiana and I get 80lbs bales of timothy orchard and alfafa for 3.50. I used to buy round bales for 20 but not anymore.

Answer 20

wow i'm shocked i though 4$ a bale was expensive! haha

my neighbors just moveddown from Denver and it was 9$ a bale, and she had to bale it herself

in kansas it's about 2-5$ a bale!

Answer 21

$5 for a 100lbs bale.

Answer 22

I'm in Southern Ohio and we are currently paying $100 a ton (for grass hay), which I think is pretty good all things considered. We recently found some round bales for $15 so we bought 30 of them. Again its only grass hay, but we have several rescues in the field and thats all they can eat....

Answer 23

I wished I lived where y'all are. Just north of San Antonio, I'm paying $11 for a scrawny 60lbs bale of costal hay, and $15 for a little bale of alfalfa that weighs at most 75lbs. Hay prices suck.

Answer 24

wow! It's 16$ a bale here! I'm jealous of you all!

Answer 25

i pay $2 in south carolina