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LadyB
Gold Member
 England
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 Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 11:54:44 AM
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I cant believe it - its £3.50 now!! For a bog standard bale of hay...
I am sure last year it was £2.50.
What do you pay?
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Lanabanana
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 11:59:59 AM
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LOL I haven't paid £2.50 for hay for a good 20 yrs.
Last time I bought average quality hay round here it was £3.50-£4.00.
We use large bale haylage which has just gone up by £5 a bale to £30.00. |
     
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precious
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:00:08 PM
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| I pay £2.80 a bale of good quality hay. Lots of other suppliers by me are alot more tho between £3-£3.50 |
     
Gemma Thompson
Birmingham West Midlands
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Vera
Membership Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:02:34 PM
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| I've just paid £6 a bale, got in 50 bales but need double that really. |
    
Hampshire |
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kirsty
Gold Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:07:38 PM
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Hi i paid £2.00 a bale for fantastic hay off the field and £20 a bale for big square haylage all cash of course
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joanna_piana
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:10:01 PM
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| Yep I pay £3.50 per bale |
      
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Chorleywood, Hertfordshire |
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rosie
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:23:49 PM
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Where abouts in the country are all of you?
We sell out of the field for £1.50 a bale, or barn stored for £2 a bale! & its VERY good quality this year.
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Tahir
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:23:58 PM
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Thankfully I don't have to buy hay or haylage, we make our own. Thankfully also, we can guarantee it is ragwort/rubbish free!!!
We sold hay off the field, collected at £3.00 per bale this year (depending on quantity). We are now selling hay at £3.25 (again depending on quantity) per bale out of the barn, delivery/handling is extra. Last year was the first time we had increased our prices for almost 12 years!!!!!!
OH gets very angry when he sees hay for sale at £1.50/£2.00 per bale in the local rag. OH knows that it has been made at the wrong time and the quality is more than suspect, let alone the probability that it is contaminated with ragwort, etc. Guess where the local equine populace get their hay from I have to pity the horses, no doubt the owners are laughing all the way to the bank - until they get their vet bill!!!
Providing hay/haylage/straw is a major part of our income, and we think we are charging a fair price, but it makes us really mad when we see forage advertised at an exhorbitant price, and when the quality isn't guaranteed
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leezee26
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England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:31:02 PM
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| I was paying £20 for a 6' round bale, Hay was £2.10 per bale to me but he normally charged £2.50. I have some round ones left so haven't called yet, I'm hoping it's not bad this year, I know he had a far better crop on quantity this year but he still had the prices of fuel, etc etc! Lx |
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kathleen
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England
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jaj
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:57:26 PM
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£3.50 per bale in North Bucks
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Vera
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 12:59:43 PM
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| Susan, can you PM where you get your hay from please? I get mine from George Smith's. |
Hampshire |
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geegee
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:00:55 PM
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Luckily we made our own hay this year but I am also using haylage (small bales) which has now gone up to £6 per bale
Bedding has also gone up. Due to buy feed soon so that has probably gone up as well.
They do say that prices should have reached their peak now, so fingers crossed..... |
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Suelin
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:12:08 PM
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| We buy wonderful quality hay for £2 bale from our neighbour farmer. That is the delivered price. We got ours in at harvest along with beautiful straw at 30p bale. I guess we are lucky to live next door to one of the best farmers in England. The land is fantastically managed and he really knows what he's doing. |
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rosie
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:21:27 PM
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I take offence when people say that if we sell hay for less than £3.25 a bale it must be rubbish!
We have our own hay & it is NOT rubbish - & I will not feed rubbish to my horses! & there is certainly NO ragwort in it.
On the other end of the scale, you can say the people who charge an extortionate rate are ripping off the buyers!!!
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Pauline
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:26:21 PM
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In the last 5 years my hay has gone up from £2.50p to £3.50p this year.
When the hay was not good last year I was still paying £3.00p a bale.
Hopefully straw has not gone up.
The trouble is that things are going up but my pension does not keep up with them.
Fuel at the moment seems to be dropping in price so that has easied things a bit.
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Pauline Higgs
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www.thegentlestouch.co.cc
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KittyB
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:29:51 PM
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| I've recently paid £3.00 per bale for (very nice) straw - more expensive than my hay at £2.00 per bale (from a relation). |
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Eeyore
Gold Member
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:36:45 PM
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At the mo I am paying £1.50 a bale for really good quality.
Last year I had to pay £5.00 a bale!
I pay whatever it takes to get good quality. Like everyone else I like a bargain but not if its at the expense of their health.
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nikki
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Wales
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:39:26 PM
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£4.oo a bale of hay, but i get big square baled haylage at £22.00 though not many made this year, so may have to go elsewhere?
£6.00 for small baled haylage(enough for 2and 1/2 a day) |
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Lanabanana
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:49:55 PM
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| Hmmm! Think we'd better move to another county don't you Vera??? |
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Vera
Membership Moderator
United Kingdom
8652 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 1:53:19 PM
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Everything is twice the price in Hampshire.
Its so tempting to move to Kent! |
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NUTTER
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England
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suyents
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 2:59:23 PM
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if anyone in east devon is looking for AMAZING small round bale haylage, OH is selling at £6 a bale...they weigh about 35-40 kgs. Hay is £4 i'm afraid....no rain etc, just lote of sun!! Early june...
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rosie
Platinum Member
England
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 3:31:45 PM
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I'm in North Yorkshire & most farmers had a good hay-time. Getting straw has been harder due to the wet weather, but we buy our straw in at £1 a bale this year.
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Tahir
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 4:07:41 PM
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Rosie, I hope you didn't think that I was insinuating that your hay is rubbish, I am sure it's not, and I appoligise if I gave you the wrong impression.
What I meant to say (and not very well) is that hay is sold in our area for £1.50/£2.00 a bale, and it is rubbish. We know it's rubbish because we know who makes the hay, and the land that it is made from (strewn with rubbish and ragwort). I didn't mean to generalise, again apologies
Carla, xx. |
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Pixie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Oct 2008 : 4:19:16 PM
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| Not related to anyone on here before i start...... but i used to be on a yard where the farmer had old old stuff that either needed burning or ploughing back in which he gave away to someone else for disposal only to learn that a week later it was being sold for £1.50 a bale and they were using his name to sell it too. he was not a happy bunny as he was selling the proper stuff for £3 a bale. there are always scammers out there |
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