Hay at # a bale ???? Can I have some please ???? Here in Australia, I pay around $10 a bale in summer and up to $28 a bale in winter 

I pay $14 to $15 a bale for bermuda here in San Diego all year round.  I was surprised to find out last summer that my husband's cousin, who grows timothy in upstate New York, sells a bale for $3.  I know other types of hay can run upwards of $20/bale here in southern California.  I'm guessing the premium price we pay for hay here is due to shipping costs, but perhaps someone more knowing can enlighten me????!

Yikes guys! I guess Im lucky, I am paying what I did last year $1.50/ bale for small squares of good quality grassy hay, but now with a diesel surcharge.  Not to fun, but better than what I hear others are paying. Heres hoping for a little dry weather to be able to get the stuff, cut and baled with out any rain on it!

In northwestern Nevada, hay is at $16.00 a bale. We are not seeing many fat horses here!

YIKES! Alright, I will no longer complain about our hay prices! $19 PER BALE?? Ouch! I'm getting a delivery tomorrow. $6 per bale, and they help unload it.

Wow!  I just read all your prices and was totally shocked!  Are you all talking about the standard small square bales?  Like, 20 - 40 pounds or so?  We're at about $3.25 ($3.50 delivered and unloaded), with some farmers trying to get as much as $4.25 (unsuccessfully, in most cases).  I pay to have my own hay cut and baled, which is running me $2/bale--that's up from $1.75 last season.  Round bales (4 x 4) are running about $35 to $45 each--that's equivalent hay to roughly 16 square bales.  But last year's second cutting was so slim I wound up paying $100/bale to have round bales made.  

It's no wonder there are horses going hungry all over the country!

We've always made our hay and I have to say everyone on here has made me realize how fortunate we are to be able to do so.I'v never really minded doing it,ok third cutting i'm wondering how much do i really like my horses? Grandpa does all the cutting and raking and he's 90,so for that alone i'm grateful. I am usually  on the wagon then me and others unload. If he sales any it's usually 3.00 a bale they are probably 40#.

Hi everybody!  Saw this subject and just had to throw in my 2 cents - if you'll notice the biggest price differences are from area to area (North, South, East, West) across the states.  We're paying about $7.00 for a regular, 65-75 lb bale of coastal here in Central TX, but I know like in AZ, they just don't grow coastal, their main forage is Alfalfa, same with New Mexico, Alfalfa is cheaper, whereas here it is about twice as high as coastal.  So I think it also depends on what's grown where due to the climates, as well as fuel surcharges.  I know one thing, if we don't get some rain, we're gonna be in serious trouble!!

Obviously, not all hay bales are equally strung.  Some are 40, 50, 65, 85 pounds.  Ours are 100 pound bales with 19 - 21 flakes per bale or about 5 pounds a flake.  Our supplier just delivered a ton of first cutting premium at $260 with a warning that next week, it might have to be $290 a ton.  So, that's a bit under $0.15 a pound.

Retail was $19 for a 65 pound bale or $584 a ton (and it wasn't premium hay).

Our goal at the moment is to create and maintain as much good pasture as possible.

I'm glad for our bales are 40-50# after loading 2500-3000 and unloading I think i'd keel over lol

WOW some of your hay prices are really high we just got a delivery of three huge hay wagons full for .50 a bale for the 20-45 pound bales but we purchased a huge amount. ANd I live in virginia

And one of my uncles just purchased hay for .10 a bale were he lives and I was jelous

Live2Ride93:

WOW some of your hay prices are really high we just got a delivery of three huge hay wagons full for .50 a bale for the 20-45 pound bales but we purchased a huge amount. ANd I live in virginia

And one of my uncles just purchased hay for .10 a bale were he lives and I was jelous

??  I don't think I've ever seen a 20# bale of hay!  I guess that would make mine about $2 in VA -- good for you!  I do have to say though our Coastal is really nice, soft, short and so green it almost hurts your eyes because it's irrigated right out of the Colorado river and my horses just love it, so no waste; good thing too at $7.00/bale in the summertime!

txspots:

 

 our Coastal is really nice, soft, short and so green it almost hurts your eyes because it's irrigated right out of the Colorado river

 TXspots, my horses asked me to ask you if they can come live with you.  They promise to behave.  Really. They crossed their evil little hearts.  And they swear they don't eat much.  

We just got the last of our first-cut in last night.  We got about 500 bales from a field that normally yields at least twice that much.  This weather is killing us!  It cost me $2 per just to have it baled.  Add fertilizer and labor, and we're paying $3.50/bale for our own hay off our own field.  It's nice, but thin.  I'm nitrating like crazy for the second cutting.    

Just seen hay for sale in our local paper for $4.00 a bale. We just finished our first cutting yesterday,grandpa said he's been making hay for 70 years dang!!!! He loves his tractors like we love our horses lol.