hay prices

[ss55]

Attend a local hay auction to see what hay like yours sells for in your area. A phone call or website check will get a range of prices, but being in-person at the auction gives you an idea of the quality of the hay sold.

If you can store the hay, prices often peak in late winter.

One hundred acres of hay is a lot to put up in small square bales, you must have a good supply of labor, LOL.

 

[Tx Jim]

Last year & this year I'm giving $10 per 4X5+ rd bale uncut mixed grass & I cut & bale. Hay was in my locale short supply last year & this year

 

[cjunrau]

Around here in Manitoba regardless of hay quality or amount, any alfalfa mix hay is sold for 3-3.5 cents a lbs standing. Take it or somebody else will. If it is a very thin crop then the price goes down as it costs to much to cut and bale with no volume. I was paying $20 a big round bale but was getting less than a bale an acre so I quit cutting it. so far every year someone else is cutting and baling it. I have no idea what there paying but always another sucker born every day they say. Another thing people do is half shares or even the guy that cuts and bales gets 60 percent. the owner of land can then sell his share to the baler or to anyone else at the going price for that year. right now rounds are $50-100 depending on the alfalfa content. The more hay on your field the more you get even at the same price per lbs. I still believe you should rent per acre to him or cents a lbs for what is on there as one person gets heavy bales and the next is lighter. Weigh 2-3 random bales and you got his weights.

 

[Jim.ME]

He has posted he is looking to sell it ''on the stump'' as 1200-pound round bales. This would also known as: the grass is standing in the field, the buyer cuts, makes and takes the hay. The OP just collects the money.

He is not making the hay, not looking at small squares, not storing it, or doing it on shares from what he has posted.

Who is fertilizing the fields to maintain quality? Anyone? If the OP is that cost would need to be figured in.

At a minimum if the $5 per bale covers the taxes on the land and the only thing one has to do is collect the money, while setting in the air conditioning or doing things he enjoys, he is breaking even.

Maybe a rental price for the fields would be easier based on past production. Set a price, let the buyer cut when and as he sees fit and make what he wants for type and size bales. If he wants to fertilize a multi-year rental may be best.

 

[544hydro]

I rent my hay ground out by the acre. Renter does everything including fertilizer if he wants. I get the same amount regardless of the yield.

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 08:48:32 07/13/23) He has posted he is looking to sell it ''on the stump'' as 1200-pound round bales. This would also known as: the grass is standing in the field, the buyer cuts, makes and takes the hay. The OP just collects the money.

He is not making the hay, not looking at small squares, not storing it, or doing it on shares from what he has posted.

Who is fertilizing the fields to maintain quality? Anyone? If the OP is that cost would need to be figured in.

At a minimum if the $5 per bale covers the taxes on the land and the only thing one has to do is collect the money, while setting in the air conditioning or doing things he enjoys, he is breaking even.

Maybe a rental price for the fields would be easier based on past production. Set a price, let the buyer cut when and as he sees fit and make what he wants for type and size bales. If he wants to fertilize a multi-year rental may be best.

xactly, Jim,...some people don't read, they just post!

 

[dhermesc]

I've never heard the term on the stump in my life. Usually if a person is renting their hay ground they say they are renting their hay ground.

 

[dhermesc]

Is it brome, bluestem, or fescue?

Last year we paid a guy $1 a bale for 60 pound square bales for bluestem - all he did was give us the key to gate. That would come out to $20 a bale for 1200 bales. This year we are paying him 1.25 per bale. Bluestem is going for $6-$7 a small square bale - right now.

 

[dhermesc]

We also paid what we guessed would be half up front, then settled the balance in the field when the last load left.

 

[rrlund]

How dry are you guys? If hay's short around there, sure, ask more. No takers, drop the price back down.

 

[DoubleO7]

(reply to post at 10:05:14 07/13/23)

Exactly, Jim,...some people don't read, they just post! Sad

A Classic View bad habit.......

 

[BillinCentralMO]

Asking prices for mixed grass , big bales here - about $150 and some asking $170/bale. It will be $200 in December I bet.

 

[504]

A friend of mine was quoted 80.00 a bale and he told the guy he would take everything he had to sell. He also started feeding hay two weeks ago. Maybe well get the rain we need and he can bale his own later this summer.