Price of hay

[LAMBCHOPS]

Been selling small bale with plenty in at £4 for last 10 years not much but to regular customers. Price the same this year to them as i want them to come back another year!!!. Seen some silly prices but everybody has got to live

 

[Derrick Hughes]

'Big bale hay £160-170 delivered if it can be found'. Done a bit of phoning today.

Better to feed straw and cake then

 

[czechmate]

I would almost be sure he us taking round bales mind

Me too.

 

[chris wink]

You said they were “good big bales”. I was just asking that surely a 4x4 is 4ft. For my wrapped bales for eg, I make them 1.5m (5ft), I would call those 5x4 but maybe that is what you would call a big 4x4?

Give me a minty I'll go get my tape out and check and get strait back to u with an accurate measurement , when I say good big 4x4 I mean they are a decent 4ft bale not 3 and a half foot baled for selling shite that u see folk charging the earth for

 

[czechmate]

Give me a minty I'll go get my tape out and check and get strait back to u with an accurate measurement , when I say good big 4x4 I mean they are a decent 4ft bale not 3 and a half foot baled for selling shite that u see folk charging the earth for

Fair enough. I have a vario baler and wouldn’t do hay in anything other than 6ft for ourselves. As I say we have to drop to 5 ft to wrap them. But then I bale for a few neighbours and some want this size, others want that size , so maybe it makes me a bit anal about bale size

By the way, I always think of this when I see you posting

 

[Woolless]

Better to feed straw and cake then

You may well be right. However, what I have found with in-lamb ewes is that if the forage part of the ration is good, they are much less likely to succumb to twin lamb disease

Fair enough. I have a vario baler and wouldn’t do hay in anything other than 6ft for ourselves. As I say we have to drop to 5 ft to wrap them. But then I bale for a few neighbours and some want this size, others want that size , so maybe it makes me a bit anal about bale size

By the way, I always think of this when I see you posting

Banging Tune!!

 

[DeeGee]

Been selling small bale with plenty in at £4 for last 10 years not much but to regular customers. Price the same this year to them as i want them to come back another year!!!. Seen some silly prices but everybody has got to live

You really need to be at £5 minimum this year, it’s not unreasonable and you are not robbing regular customers at that price. I have been at £4 for several years but this year it’s £5 and nobody bats an eyelid, they are just happy to be able to ge it.

I know it’s entirely your own business what you choose to charge, but believe me £5 is cheap this year.

 

[bobk]

I've weaned my buyers off small bales , they now love mini hesstons .

 

[valtra]

I sold some small bales off the field £4.50 a bale this year all sold within half hour of advertising all horsey folk..

 

[Deutzdx3]

Currently selling for £25 per bale. Going up to £35 next week to slow down sales. Will be out before Christmas otherwise.

 

[Chae1]

Fair enough. I have a vario baler and wouldn’t do hay in anything other than 6ft for ourselves. As I say we have to drop to 5 ft to wrap them. But then I bale for a few neighbours and some want this size, others want that size , so maybe it makes me a bit anal about bale size

By the way, I always think of this when I see you posting

That's some tune!

Reminds me of marquee dances.

 

[chris wink]

Fair enough. I have a vario baler and wouldn’t do hay in anything other than 6ft for ourselves. As I say we have to drop to 5 ft to wrap them. But then I bale for a few neighbours and some want this size, others want that size , so maybe it makes me a bit anal about bale size

By the way, I always think of this when I see you posting

It was on the radio twice at hairst time this year , no relation of mine sadly , I remember my brother coming home with this on record playing it over and over again

 

[cotswoldcs]

How much for a 8 foot 6 string bale (I'm selling) Very good meadow hay?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Currently selling for £25 per bale. Going up to £35 next week to slow down sales..

Why don’t you put it up to £50 and it’ll slow to a stop

 

[bobk]

Currently selling for £25 per bale. Going up to £35 next week to slow down sales. Will be out before Christmas otherwise.

For small bales . ?