Hay Update for February

[Bill VA]

Our hay stocks are dwindling. Had a few customers since this video. Id say given the hay glut in our area, were very lucky to have moved the bales we have so far.

Enjoy!
Hay Update February

 

[showcrop]

My hay update: 2020 hay sold, 2021 hay sold at $5.75/bale picked up in the field.

 

[Bill VA]

Impressive!

 

[coshoo]

We have ours bought, $3.50 a bale, they load our trailer in the field. Good deal for buyers, he's at least a dollar a bale light on his price. He used to do like everybody else- bale and drop in the field, load your own. But got tired of overweight horse lady and her 9 and 7 year old girls trying to load, end up dumping the load from poor stacking, they're sitting on the bales bawling, and he had to help reload.

So he came up with a better plan. He hires and pays a crew and they load your rig. They know what they're doing and do it right. The whole operation starts at 5:30 PM., after both buyers and loaders are done with their "day job". He has lined up today's buyers from his list, and has noted how much each is taking. Buyers line up, crew loads each rig, and we're done. Very slick operation.

There's one very attractive girl on the crew, and for an unknown reason, she always ends up on my side of the pickup. Coincidence? I wonder. . .

 

[Willow Lane]

Maybe you need to haul what you have left to the northeast. People in Maine & NH asking $8-$10 for small squares, One person listed the bales as a 50/50 alfalfa-grass mix and they wanted $10 for 30# bales. There is one party listing small squares hauled in from NY for $18. 4x4 rounds are $80-$125 and some of the hay in the pictures doesn't look that great. Glad we don't need to buy any.

 

[paul]

See if I get to the hay auction in the next couple weeks.

Pretty much a glut here, and we are having a beautiful day, sunny, strong breeze, 40 degrees. Cant walk its either ice or 3 inches of mud, but to see melting and grass and dirt coming out of the cold this early means the pastures will come early, folk wont be interested in buying hay this spring any more.

Wonder if they are still getting $1.50 a bale or if its gone down some more.

Paul

 

[bc]

We sold a few semi loads of big brome round bales headed down to the northeast corner of the Texas panhandle. The 2019 cutting still left went for $80 a ton and the 2020 hay went for $95 a ton. Figured these bales were around 1500 pounds but they went to an elevator to weigh and came back as they were weighing 1700 pounds each so some had to be unloaded. They were worried about KS weight inspectors but not for OK or Tx. Don't really know what is going on in the Texas panhandle that they needed brome. Might be close to where Boone Pickens had a big ranch.

 

[SVcummins]

Does the horse lady have to be overweight or can the skinny ones not know how to stack either

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 11:37:31 03/02/21) We have ours bought, $3.50 a bale, they load our trailer in the field. Good deal for buyers, he's at least a dollar a bale light on his price. He used to do like everybody else- bale and drop in the field, load your own. But got tired of overweight horse lady and her 9 and 7 year old girls trying to load, end up dumping the load from poor stacking, they're sitting on the bales bawling, and he had to help reload.

So he came up with a better plan. He hires and pays a crew and they load your rig. They know what they're doing and do it right. The whole operation starts at 5:30 PM., after both buyers and loaders are done with their "day job". He has lined up today's buyers from his list, and has noted how much each is taking. Buyers line up, crew loads each rig, and we're done. Very slick operation.

There's one very attractive girl on the crew, and for an unknown reason, she always ends up on my side of the pickup. Coincidence? I wonder. . .

Coshoo, find out how he hires a crew to throw small squares. Write up a manual for the procedure and make a million dollars. The difficulty of what you say he does is the reason for the replacement of small squares with large squares and rounds.