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| alistair leslie |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 2:04:54 PM
one of my suppliers just said he has no more left and cannot get any from any of his regular producers in the South.
I have enough at the present rate of consumption but thought it worth mentioning if you were hesitating to stock up. |
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| natntaz |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 11:20:22 PM
Thats discusting, I hope all these farmers who are so
greedy end up with hay that they cant get rid of.
I have to say the man who delivers ours is lovely and very
reliable. He has kept ours by for us as well. I just hope
he doesnt run out  |
| jp |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 6:26:07 PM
kezziecrj5, yes your quite right, no offense meant to you personally, if it was'nt for "greedy" farmers, we would'nt have hay, i know it's a hard and a thankless task.... but, i did say "from our area", being in the London bracket, it's very expensive and i feel that a £35 increase in a week is eexcessive £10.50 for a smale bale??.... we DO have "greedy farmers!"
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| jp |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 5:24:35 PM
Just had to reply to this.....
We have just had an increase, for the same reason, string and diesel have gone up, last week we payed £50 per large bale, this week it's gone up to £85!!!!, now that's a HUGE increase in a week, for the same hay, from the same supplier, from the same barn and under 10 miles away. So, i made a few calls...there is plenty of hay, BUT.... it appears that all the local suppliers are around the £80 per large bale, all of a sudden! Small bales are available also, at between £7.50 and £10.50, yes, you did just read that right! So, from our area, it appears GREEDY farmers, holding onto hay to push the prices up..... rant over 
So, if anyone knows of "cheaper" hay, who will deliver to the Windsor area, please PM me 
Also, anyone else noticed feed prices creeping up......
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| purdeysue |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 5:08:38 PM
Thanks to my supplier rationing & not taking new customers, he was able to bring me 75 bales of june hay in january. We'll probably be good now till the first cut (fingers X'd) |
| natntaz |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 4:16:41 PM
Hi Nichole i have pmd you back. I will get the
number for you and send it to you |
| Nichole Waller |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 2:32:49 PM
Nathntaz & Lou,
Where abouts in Essex are you and can you PM my your suppliers?
I'm between Epping & Ongar and i paid £3.50 a bale off the field, then £4.00 a bale delivered after that. I bought 150 bales in one go to last me through the winter i think i'm just about going to have enough to last me until mid March.
The same farmer (from the same crop) is now charging £4.50 a bale due to diesel increase..... He won't deliver to new customers though as he only has enough for his cows and his current customers.
My nieces use another supplier from Abridge / Chigwell area and he is charging £40 for round bale Hay / Haylage |
| s.jade |
Posted - 15 Feb 2011 : 07:50:14 AM
Prices of hay are just frightening 
We had enough stocked up to last us through until about August, stored at the place we were buying from - however it was all lost in a fire there few weeks back - struggling to find more up here in the North too |
| natntaz |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 11:03:02 PM
Lol pashon, we hear it year in and year out how they have to
put the price up for one reason or another. I dont mind a little
price increase but ours went up £15 a large bale this year
im with you think its pure greed. They dont put anything down
when they have a good crop ! Very rarely see a poor farmer  |
| Pashon2001 |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 10:42:27 PM
They are greedy, last winter my hay doubled in price over the course of the bad weather and it came from the same damn barn!!!! Did it grow gold flecks or something??????? |
| jaj |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 10:14:36 PM
Price of string - brilliant !
Mine eat almost a bale between them over a 24 hour period  .
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| rosie |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 10:13:17 PM
don't think its a case of farmers being greedy - hay was scarce last year due to the VERY dry summer. Most farmers around us were about 50% down on their usual crop, and we had bad snow from mid- Nov which didn't help matters.
And no we're not farmers (just make enough hay with a tiny amount spare to sell)
If you have storage facilities its usually a lot cheaper to buy hay out of the field rather than in Jan/Feb |
| natntaz |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 9:59:24 PM
We are paying £50 a large bale, I asked our supplier if
it would be going down if there was a good crop this year
and was told that because of the price of diesel and string
and so on he wasn't sure. I know i can collect from up the
road for £35 a bale but i don't like the hay as much as our
present supplier.Plus he delivers and is very reliable but
i wont pay so much in the next winter as its costing me £50
a week for two horses in hay thats without all the other costs
I think there will be lots of hungry horses if things carry
on as they are. Luckily for mine i would rather feed them than
myself. |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 9:42:24 PM
"Lucky mine aren't hard on it a blae last two horses near a week lol"
Xsara, can I swop my horses for yours! Luckily I have my own hay, the farmers who cut it also store it for me and deliver it five huge bales (hestons) at a time as I don't have a barn to store it all in and that last me 6 days!
Barbara |
| jaj |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 9:15:01 PM
I'm paying £5 per bale for the most beautiful hay ever, delivered to my door and I don't begrudge it at all as such reliable quality and really good size bales.
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| xsara |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 9:04:03 PM
farmers are getting greedy. I am lucky have I get haylage delivered by the people who supply the race yard and have always been very good to me. I am down to my last couple of bales of hay but will hopefully get a big bale delivered with the next haylage. I had brought the hay in aug to keep me going till christmas and still using it having throwing 7 bales out. Lucky mine aren't hard on it a blae last two horses near a week lol |
| LOU |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 8:55:44 PM
I have rang over 10 adverts in essex for hay and they want £6 plus per conventional bale, the thing is, im sure there was a shortage because farmers have stock piled hay as every farmer I called I asked how many bales they had these farmers were all in a 10 mile radius from my yard, I added up what they all had and it came to 13,000 bales in my area alone as they said they had kept it for the new yaer when it is short.
There is alot of greedy farmers in Essex who make handbag size bales instead of the good old fashioned bale, I have gone with haylage as I refuse to pay these prices.
I hope they have a barn full come harvest time! There are many thin horses in fields around my area who in years gone by had hay in the fields, I said to one farmer GREED IS ONE OF THE SEVEN SINS!!!! |
| Pasha |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 4:17:43 PM
It is so worrying! Our supplier has said they will have enough to last until 1st cut at the current rate of consumption - they put prices up to limit demand, but I guess when everyone else runs out it won't matter how much they charge!
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| doug ault |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 4:16:37 PM
One of our neighbours has a few sheep grazing on a friend's farm in Pembroke, his friend took a small flat bed trailer of small bale hay to the local market last week and sold it for £12 per bale.... |
| Pashon2001 |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 4:07:42 PM
Please do not mention SNOW....................pleeeezzze |
| Kazzy |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 3:35:47 PM
Getting very scarse around here (cheshire) I have enough, well I say that, enough to last till about begining of April and they are out, so hopefully it will last. Noticed though they not eating it all up anymore and the grass is greening up a lot, but you never know this time of year, it could snow for a month!!
Janet |
| jaj |
Posted - 14 Feb 2011 : 3:33:24 PM
Gosh that's a worry with it only being the middle of February !
My supply is from a local farm who seem to have rationed it well this year, I cherish them I really do.
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