Feed hay prices

[Hay Dude]

With everyone raising prices on all my inputs, I just emailed my feed hay customers this morning that I’m raising prices to $100 for a 1000 pound round bale picked up at my barn.
Has anyone that buys/sells seen increased prices?

The endophyte free fescue bales are a little less than my orchard grass bales. Might be an option for some. Delivery prices are now increasing dramatically per mile and for loading time for longer distance delivery. Buddy of mine that sells hay charges a loading fee, a minimum delivery charge fee and $3/loaded mile. I’m thinking of doing same.
I called my 3 customers I deliver to locally, by tractor (in my neighborhood) and they seemed very understanding, almost like they expected it….

Hate to do it, but I’ve no choice. Welcome to the “new norm”. Everything costs 25-100% more.

 

[groundcover]

Wonder what the price point will be to see critter sell off ? The crazy prices may be ok for the top of the one percenters
but it's going to be pretty tough on those that were just getting by to begin with.

 

[ultrarunner]

The new normal as it were...

Orchard seems to be the most popular around here but I don't know much about hay except proper storage...

Can anyone say $30 a bale???

We have a few put out to pasture horse boarders at the tree farm and they are 100% on the wild grasses on a rolling 40 acre plot... with park district barbed wire in the rear...

They are the healthiest easy to keep horses with only water provided year after year.

 

[Hay Dude]

The new normal as it were...

Orchard seems to be the most popular around here but I don't know much about hay except proper storage...

Can anyone say $30 a bale???

We have a few put out to pasture horse boarders at the tree farm and they are 100% on the wild grasses on a rolling 40 acre plot... with park district barbed wire in the rear...

They are the healthiest easy to keep horses with only water provided year after year.

It’s true!
a few of my more intelligent customers actually prefer hay that’s a mix of naturally occurring grasses. Most of the time, they forage off the ground, which is healthier for their digestive tracts.
The ones on the high octane hay fed from a 6’ high feeder look fat & lazy and founder.

 

[sea2summit]

With everyone raising prices on all my inputs, I just emailed my feed hay customers this morning that I’m raising prices to $100 for a 1000 pound round bale picked up at my barn.
Has anyone that buys/sells seen increased prices?

The endophyte free fescue bales are a little less than my orchard grass bales. Might be an option for some. Delivery prices are now increasing dramatically per mile and for loading time for longer distance delivery. Buddy of mine that sells hay charges a loading fee, a minimum delivery charge fee and $3/loaded mile. I’m thinking of doing same.
I called my 3 customers I deliver to locally, by tractor (in my neighborhood) and they seemed very understanding, almost like they expected it….

Hate to do it, but I’ve no choice. Welcome to the “new norm”. Everything costs 25-100% more.

Just curious, what was it before?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I have sold 4' by 5' round rolls of barn stored coastal for $45.00 per roll picked up at the barn , but granular fertilizer has doubled and as of right now is between $ 650 up to $875 per ton depending on analysis, liquid fertilizer has also doubled in price, I haven't checked yet to see what off road diesel is going to cost me to fill up my storage tanks, so the price of hay has got to go up if there is any profit to be made, which is already very little.

 

[Hay Dude]

Just curious, what was it before?

I was $80 picked up.

 

[Snobdds]

Is it really a cost to you if you just pass it on?

 

[Hay Dude]

Is it really a cost to you if you just pass it on?

Not if all my customers accept the “passed on” costs, but might lose customers if the next guy selling hay down the road raises his prices less than mine.

Its always a risk when you raise prices, even if just to cover costs

 

[Hay Dude]

Wonder what the price point will be to see critter sell off ? The crazy prices may be ok for the top of the one percenters
but it's going to be pretty tough on those that were just getting by to begin with.

Agree. I cant imagine going forward how anyone can continue to afford to own horses after this? I think they calculate the average household will spend $2,000 more per year on fossil fuels. Groceries will probably go up 50-100%, too.

Maybe its part of the “great reset” to get methane fart gas from livestock reduced? Lol

 

[mred2]

I look for my hay guy to go up. I have purchased 4 x 5 roll of costal from him for a long time for $35 a roll of about 800 lbs. I have expected it to be $40 to $45 for the past three years. He also raises chickens, so has chicken litter. I would not be surprised to see $60 or more here for good hay. We still have a lot of people bailing grass (weeds) and selling it for $20-$25 a roll. Most of that a cow won't eat. I am trying to keep my usage down to less than 45 rolls a year. At one time it was over 80.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Agree. I cant imagine going forward how anyone can continue to afford to own horses after this? I think they calculate the average household will spend $2,000 more per year on fossil fuels. Groceries will probably go up 50-100%, too.

Maybe its part of the “great reset” to get methane fart gas from livestock reduced? Lol

Currently the average family will spend $3000 more per year to cover inflation, per the “experts”

 

[jyoutz]

IDK yet. I usually buy hay at local farms in July/August and stock up for the year. I’m not looking forward to seeing what the going rate will be this summer.

 

[Macinnis]

Wonder what the price point will be to see critter sell off ? The crazy prices may be ok for the top of the one percenters
but it's going to be pretty tough on those that were just getting by to begin with.

Do you know how much a household needs to make to be in the 1% category? It’s not as high as you would think.

 

[ultrarunner]

I keep hearing it varies depending on geography...

Then again I went to school with the kids of a Pan Am executive and somewhere his salary was posted which was impressive and then my Dad said isn't that the family with 10 kids?

But, working for Pan Am all the kids flew free... if we had a 3 day weekend my friend would fly to Hong Kong or Australia, etc... just for fun.

I wonder what percent those with 500 million yachts are?

 

[jyoutz]

I keep hearing it varies depending on geography...

Then again I went to school with the kids of a Pan Am executive and somewhere his salary was posted which was impressive and then my Dad said isn't that the family with 10 kids?

But, working for Pan Am all the kids flew free... if we had a 3 day weekend my friend would fly to Hong Kong or Australia, etc... just for fun.

I wonder what percent those with 500 million yachts are?

Since most of those $500M yacht people are from Russia, they have to be a tiny fraction of a percent.

 

[WM75Guy]

I still have 100 bales to pick up from my hay guy that I already paid for, just need to go get them. I will learn what this year's price will be then. If he goes up from $8 to $10 for a square bale it will be an extra $400, as I only use 200 square bales/year. Well worth it to keep the wife happy. He puts out good quality horse hay so he is entitled to earn a profit.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm seeing horse quality square bales go from $8 to $10 in my area of East Texas. I'm nervous about round bales. Last year I paid $65 for full 6 foot horse quality bales delivered 18 at a time. I'm seeing 5 foot bales from last year selling for the same price right now, but that's normal for end of the season pricing.

 

[Hay Dude]

Since most of those $500M yacht people are from Russia, they have to be a tiny fraction of a percent.

Uh that would be false. We have a very large group of oligarchs amassing in the US.
Most are in the internet web based businesses. They have a lot more control on policy making in this country than most Americans could ever believe.

 

[jyoutz]

Uh that would be false. We have a very large group of oligarchs amassing in the US.
Most are in the internet web based businesses. They have a lot more control on policy making in this country than most Americans could ever believe.

No doubt that’s true.