Great pics. It's interesting to hear what it's like selling hay from the person who's actually doing it. I'm a buyer of round bales. I seem to find a good source every year, and it's like a curse or something, but then never last until the following year. Right now I have a guy about 20 minutes away from me with true 6 foot bales that are really nice hay for a very good price of $65 each. Here in East Texas, 5 1/2 foot bales are going for $50 on up and 5 foot bales start can be found for $35 for cow quality on up to about $50 for horse quality, or more. I have two feed stores that I rely on when my regular guy retires, or just quits baling hay. They are both $80 a bale, with the one that's closer to me in Lindale, having better quality hay. It's kept indoors and always weed free. The other guy has it under a carport that gets some rain on it, and I've had issues with weeds, small branches and stickers in his hay. I have to be really desperate to buy from him.
This is a picture of how I haul hay. One in the bed, four in the trailer. These are six foot bales and it's easiest the heaviest load of hay that I have ever hauled. He said that he would deliver 10 bales to my house for an extra $50, which I think is the deal of the century. I have a fresh bale out and one more waiting, so I'll give him a call in a week or so and see if he's still in business and if he will still deliver the ten bales for $50 extra, or $700 for a load of ten. For me, this is the best deal that I've come across since I started buying round bales about five years ago.
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