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| marionpack |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 10:42:22 AM
I have just got a price for my hay this year (400 bales) and it is being quoted at £3.50 per bale, delivered and stacked, this in Berkshire, just wandered what sort of prices other people are paying, my supplier has said that he is not getting the yield he normally gets and that hay could be short this year |
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| Nichole Waller |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 10:23:39 PM
Our local farmer sold it to us for £2.50 a bale straight from the field last year. Then it was £3.00 a bale until he ran out in January...! After this we had terrible trouble getting any good quality hay and what we did manage to buy was £4.75 - £6.00 a bale...!
This year my local farmer has put his price up to £3.50 per bale straight form the field and then he wants £4.00 a bale. He said his yeild is down but he put more fields for hay this year so shouldn't run out (he also has about 100 cattle to feed).
I've just bought 60 bales and have another 60 coming next week. Now need to go out and buy a load of plastic sheets to cover it all as our ban roof leeks... |
| Hazel Cornes |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 6:20:52 PM
Originally posted by alison I am really sick of the old story of 'bad year this year so will have to put price up' have heard this old chchestnut so often!!!!! Alison 
Similar to other posts, our crop is definitely less and we've used some of the haylage fields for grazing as the cold winter set everything back. What can happen between now and the end of summer Alison is that if we get some decent rain, an extra crop can be got and therefore there will be a good supply. It is really farmers forward planning and fore warning as best they can due to the weather conditions being out of their control. They're not just talking re the horse market, there's a huge number of cattle in this country to feed and if they have to buy in early next year it will be at a much higher price.
When we were selling haylage we were always picking up "casual" customers in late Spring early Summer when their regular supplier had run out before the new crop was ready. We used to supply them if we could but would always keep plenty back for our regulars. These casual customers always promised to buy off us in the Winter, which a few did, but alot didn't and we didn't mind we just sold what was available.
Hazel
(Yes Farmer's Wife!!!!!!!!!!!)
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| stuart |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 2:41:09 PM
£25.00 for large heston bales - and £40.00 for Quadrant bales.... |
| flosskins |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 12:17:12 PM
yield is definitely down, i just cut my 1 1/2 acres which normally gets me through the winter and got 21 bales! barely worth doing. and worked out at £1.70 per bale so i didn't really save anything making my own. Hoping to get another 50 bales in the next week or so but no idea what i'm going to have to pay for it, over £2.50 i'm sure as that was the normal price last year. |
| Pop |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 09:05:09 AM
I pay £30 per large bale, delivered. Berks/Bucks/Oxon border. Its very nice, I bought a couple of small bales from a feed store when I ran out, they were £5.75 each, they wouldn't touch it. I buy it and then he stores it for me until I need it. I think he has loads. |
| gossy |
Posted - 29 Jun 2010 : 08:32:29 AM
£2 small bales delivered and stacked, good quality hay, large square bales £25 delivered and stacked. |
| suyents |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 10:03:22 PM
well, here in east devon our yield was down by fifty per cent, so i dont think there will be much spare hay around this winter...may have lots of chestnuts though!! :)) |
| arabesque |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 9:47:25 PM
Hi Alison, where are you based? If you're close enough I'd love to know your supplier . Pretty please haha. |
| Red Rum |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 9:40:29 PM
I am really lucky hay has been cut and really down on number of bales BUT my man cutting the hay has offered me as many bales as I like at £1.75 delivered. Hurray Mandy |
| proctorclaire |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 8:35:07 PM
Ours are £4.75 for a square bale up in Scotland. |
| Dark Angel |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 7:55:19 PM
I have just paid £1.50 for some lovely meadow hay off the field. I'm in Hereford. Sadly the yield was down for the field owners too and I could only have 80 bales. Still looking for more. |
| LadyLuck1 |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 7:04:44 PM
We are paying £4.50- £6.50 a bale think I will be getting haylage for Kirstie as thereisnt much difference in price and its what she hasbeen fed on until I bought her a 6 weeks ago. |
| rollin |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 3:40:23 PM
Yields are down because of the dry and cool spring. We cut our own hay and got 40% of last year's. We are already buying in from elsewhere to see us through the winter.
Straw is also in short supply and being sold before it is cut. I am only 3 hours drive south of Cherbourg. |
| rosie |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 1:57:47 PM
We're selling ours from the field for £2.50.
Contractor thinks they'll be good hay about but not the quantity.
Our crop was down by a lot this year!
Only got 50 bales left to sell now and it was only baled yesterday! |
| honey |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 1:54:00 PM
we just had 100 bales delivered and stacked straight from the field for 2.50 a bale this was the average price of hay last year so its not changed price any from last years. |
| avanti |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 1:36:53 PM
Its £5 a bale here, KENT (new hay) no one selling it off the field, I've just bought some from devon £3.50 a bale delivered and stacked,
Mandy |
| Barnsey |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 1:08:44 PM
I'm in Berkshire but having to pay anything from £4.50 to £4.75 per bale, think I need to move |
| moatside |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 1:00:00 PM
I am cutting in the next 2 weeks - looks like I will be a bit down due to the slow start but I won't be selling it at any more than normal! |
| Suelin |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 12:41:27 PM
£2.50 a small bale delivered and stacked in my barn. That is Lincolnshire. Wheat straw this year 40p small bale delivered and stacked. All top quality. My neighbour farmer is just marvellous to us. Yield would seem to be down by about a 1/3 this year due to drought. |
| marionpack |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 11:55:51 AM
Vera I think we need to move to Wales or up North |
| Susie T |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 11:41:32 AM
I'm in Derbyshire and I have just paid £2 per bale - collected. |
| Vera |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 11:37:08 AM
I've just been offered some from a friend at £3.50 a bale but I have to collect myself straight off the field tonight! She said that the yield is down by a quarter on last year. She also said that she has people queuingto buy it and people are literally driving past and stopping asking to buy it.
From my usual supplier it is £6 a bale, he won't sell off the field so its barn stored. |
| alison |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 10:58:21 AM
I can get it £1 a bale if I collect off field or £2 delivered, it's always good quality. I am really sick of the old story of 'bad year this year so will have to put price up' have heard this old chchestnut so often!!!!!
Alison |
| LYNDILOU |
Posted - 28 Jun 2010 : 10:45:50 AM
I have just paid £2.50 a bale off the field delivered stacked, so I am getting as much a he will give me |
