how much is small bale hay worth

[multi power]

off field or delivered

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Trade or end user


What price do you sell your milk for ?

 

[multi power]

im selling it, lot of people wanting small amounts delivered

 

[Baling Hay]

£5 - £6 a bale

 

[multi power]

£5 - £6 a bale

how many do you want?

 

[Baling Hay]

how many do you want?

None but thats what it has sold for up in Ayrshire. That is in the winter though from the shed.

 

[Charlie]

How much for off the field in herefordshire next week?

 

[Post Driver]

We are putting 1500 bales into one of our regular customers at £4. Loaded with a flat 8 but chucked off and stacked by hand. About a 20 minute haul up the road.

Too cheap?

 

[Baling Hay]

We are putting 1500 bales into one of our regular customers at £4. Loaded with a flat 8 but chucked off and stacked by hand. About a 20 minute haul up the road.

Too cheap?

Depends on what part of the country you are, if you are in a sunny part of england, no not too cheap. if you are in a wet part of scotland then possibly yes.

 

[Big_Alan]

Last year we were selling them at £5 a bale collected. extra 50p a bale delivered. That's in Lanarkshire

 

[nick channer]

Off field snything from £2 upwards.. Ours is min £3 but goes up to £4-5 in autumn.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£5 delivered , £4 loaded ex yard

Don't do the farmer trick , work for nothing

You ain't doing trade prices

 

[ianw]

£5 delivered , £4 loaded ex yard

Don't do the farmer trick , work for nothing

You ain't doing trade prices

And as I've said before 50p extra for those who never have there wallet/purse but will pay the next time they see you

 

[Shetlandsheep]

I don't think last years prices have so much relevance this year. Last year hay was hard to get in large areas of the UK and there was big competition for scarce supplies.

This year there are massive amounts of good quality hay all over the UK being made and the market is going to be very well supplied. Customers will have a good choice and I can't see many paying 5-6 a bale - if they wait there will be barns full of the stuff looking for a home IMO.

Even my neighbour who normally only makes one or two fields of hay has made nearly everywhere into hay, to sell on. And he's never done that the 5 years we've been here! And lots of others the same. Farmer next but one has made more silage than I have ever seen him make, the stack stretches into the horizon.....

Last year when our own baler broke we paid £3.50 a bale collected ( but barn stored by the farmer) or £4.25 when things got tight. This year hopefully wont buy any but won't have to pay more than £3-3.50.

If you can get £5 or £6 from anyone for small bale hay this year, bite their hands off, I don't think it will last. Having said that the days of the £1.50 or £2 bale are over (rightly).

 

[multi power]

We are putting 1500 bales into one of our regular customers at £4. Loaded with a flat 8 but chucked off and stacked by hand. About a 20 minute haul up the road.

Too cheap?

i would not like to pay 4 quid for a bale of hay, i would ask if they want an extra load !

 

[Walterp]

i would not like to pay 4 quid for a bale of hay, i would ask if they want an extra load !

Pembrokeshire is out of fodder by the end of April; towards the end we were paying £3.50 a bale, but £3.00 thru' the Winter, for small amounts at irregular intervals for Julie's sheep and calves.

We're told that very little hay is being made around here, despite the fine weather, because farmers no longer have spare shed space. It's being wrapped instead.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Depends if you run a farm shop or selling your surplus , comments on here at tipical farmer attitude to marketing and just show why they would never be any good at it, public want somewhere where they can go anytime without making an appointment get loaded and be away again , if you can man a shed 6 days a week to do that at £3 and bale you bonkers

 

[B R C]

For good meadow hay for horses £4.50 delivered straight from field, once in shed £5 delivered. Local delivery min 50 bales.

I don't think there will much more hay made round here as you either do or don't do it especially for small bale market. I am 20% down per acre from last year.

 

[Andy26]

Depends if you run a farm shop or selling your surplus , comments on here at tipical farmer attitude to marketing and just show why they would never be any good at it, public want somewhere where they can go anytime without making an appointment get loaded and be away again , if you can man a shed 6 days a week to do that at £3 and bale you bonkers

Yes, there's a big difference between buying it by the artic load straight of the field and stacking and dry storing small bales all winter to sell them a dozen at a time.

For good meadow hay for horses £4.50 delivered straight from field, once in shed £5 delivered. Local delivery min 50 bales.
I don't think there will much more hay made round here as you either do or don't do it especially for small bale market. I am 20% down per acre from last year.

50p to stack into shed, store and load out seems cheap?

 

[Bev]

I sell hay on a small scale and all my customers come back year after year. Farmers won't take them on as customers, they all make big bales. My customers want small bales as they use spare stables and sheds for storing it and can't get big bales through the door, they want to be able to come for 10-20 bales at a time, they know when I am around and come at set times throughout the winter. And I sell a lot of last years hay in the summer for the ponies who are on restricted grazing. Farmers won't put up with them coming frequently for small loads - so its all good for me.
I more than cover my costs for making it which is all I want to do, my animals basically get fed for nothing in the winter.
I am selling last years hay at £3.50 a bale at the moment, not sure what this years will be this winter, maybe £4.