How bad is the hay situation...

[Pam M]

...up in the Western VA area? I'm headed up there next week and was told they're paying $14 per bale for grass hay. I can probably fit 30-40 bales extra and charge a lot less than that if anyone needs them. My route is up to Birmingham - Chattanooga, TN - Knoxville - into VA.

[Terry Wallace]

Hey Pam...make a swing through COLORADO and I'll but all 40 bales!

On my trip to South Dakota, I saw thousands of round bales out in fields...looks like they had been there for months....wonder why they weren't ever picked up? With the rain I drove through...they are cow hay now if they weren't before! What a waste....

[SQUEAKS]

Pam

There is plenty of hay available in Jefferson and Madison County why ya going so far for hay. It's running $4 to $5 a bale here.

Bob

[Pam M]

Bob, it's close to that here - maybe a little more. But I'm not going up there to get hay - I'm offering to take some if it's as bad as I heard, since I'm headed up that way anyway. Might help pay for some of the gas! Someone told me they were paying $14/bale for coastal and since I'm going up there I can take a little bit for a lot less that that if anyone needs it.

[Marleen Robinson]

Pam, will you be passing thru North Carolina? I will take whatever hay I can get right now. Getting scary here. Stil have a few more call to make today, but things do not look promising :cry: .

[pasofantasy]

We recently paid less than $6 in Ocala for coastal. I can't remember the exact amount. Lately it had been about $7. I believe, it was a special deal. There are several places, that have had it for around $7. Maybe you need to make trips to Ocala.

[Red Ryder]

Just made a deal for 600+ bales [enclosed box 53 foot trailer load] imported from New York state at $5.50/bale sight unseen [dangerous]said to be 60 to 70 % Bermuda, 20% [tops] clover, 10 to 20% orchid grass. It will cost me another $ .50/bale to get it into the barn, for a total of $6.00/bale. Next best I could come up with was $7.50 per bale

2 people that told me 4 weeks ago I could get 3/400 bales from each one, suddenly are getting 1 or 2 rolls per acre, or a better price than they told me. I prefer to believe their story.

Local man called me with 240 bales of "grass hay" wanted $5.50/bale

I truly only need 450 bales [I think] so if any of you guys run short later in the year let me know and I'll let you have some or all of the surplus at $15.00/bale [only kidding, price will be the same $6.00 I have in it]
gotta make some money some how to pay for the $3600 I've got to shell out.

I may go hungry, but my animals want.

[Monty]

Hay is running $3 to $3.50 a bale - we were lucky and had a guy bale our Boss's field for $1.75 a bale - third cut -
we have what we need - may buy another 100 bales - we needed 1000 for the year thru June . It WILL go up in price this winter ,since areas shere had drought and then flooding :roll:

[My Pasos]

Its kinda bad here. They have now rolled what was left over in corn fields into round bails to get buy.
We have been buying the alfalfa bails. In some places they are rolling what ever. Too risky for us to even try. They are literally full of trash and garbage.