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wolfman

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Our local (Southwest PA) Craigslist has 175 Ads for hay for sale. Most winters you'd see 5 or 6 ads for hay. I can't believe 175 and two are mine! I think next summer about 12 of my fields will be rested, maybe 20.
 
Where I am in MO the Lake of the Ozarks area many have run out of hay or are close to running out. Normal year for me is around 70 or so big rounds and this year I got around 30 due to being to hot and to dry and then when we did get rain we got way to much
 
I put 42 big 4X5 rounds on a guy's trailer one afternoon. Slow job, couldn't be higher than 13 ft three. Never saw so many ratchet straps. He hauled them over 300 miles and said he didn't make money, and that was back when fuel was a lot less.
 
I'm in Missouri like old is. I have hay wanted ads up, no replies.

I don't want to spend 7.00 per small bale of grass. Alfalfa is even higher.

Whenever ANY hay is for sale by the time it comes to Craigslist, I call on it and already sold.

On Craigslist there are more people needing hay than ever. NO big round bales available at all. DOUG
 
Lot of hay for sale around me and with it wet and getting in the 70's won't be but so much more fed not like its real cold and snow that eats up the hay.I see some grass squares down to
$3.50/bale.
 
Yes Wolfman, you can blame me for one of those ads. Maybe your post will induce someone from a dry area to get up here and move some of this hay out. Heard the big Yeo Farms (Lowellville OH)valentines day hay sale did not set any price records. There are quite a few signs around that spring is not too far away, not good news for those of us with hay.
 
What part of MO are you in?Hay seems to be a little more plentiful in extreme western MO but its not cheap..Go on east of us and it was much drier in 2017...
 

Plenty of hay was made here in Cooper County (slightly west central MO) as we had more than enough rain last summer and it's a good thing. My farming partner made a 2nd cutting of orchard grass/timothy/fescue hay last summer on my place and brought in some extra bales from another place and he's still going to run out of hay for his cows on my place before winter's over. So he'll be bring more in. Everything is dry/dead and his cows are really going through it. Luckily we are finally getting some real rain this week. Mike
 
Many areas south of HWY 54 have been in drought conditions since late summer of 17. Last year it got to warm in Feb and then in march we had a heavy frost so many of the plants started to do there spring thing and got hit hard and set way back. Plus we went from cool and wet to hot and dry so most every thing down this way did not do well. Even my garden did poorly in 17
 
I'm at least lucky enough to have a place not far from me that has 4X5 bales for $39.50 which to me is a bit high but when you need hay you have to pay what it is going for or do with out
 
I'm 40 miles west of Hannibal or 60 miles north of Columbia. I did find some hay in Hesston, KS but that is too far away at 65 dollars per big round.

Last year it was 30 dollars per big rounds. I called my hay supplier in late September and he was out of hay already. He was out of hay by August 15.
 
Can't hardly give hay away here. Big rounds at $35.00 for good hay, if you can find someone that wants it.
 
After the last drought we had farmers have been bailing anything cattle will eat for hay (corn stalks, milo stubble, etc). Now you still really can't sell any hay for cattle (even at $25 for a 5x6 round bale). The only hay that sells for good money around here now is horse quality hay, people will pay for the hay, and pick the bales up right after it comes out the bailer on horse hay.
 
I'm in SE Illinois, have been sold out of hay since September. Been buying some and resaling. We never got a 3rd cutting of alfalfa. 2nd was light. Just quit raining. But Corn and Beans were ok.
 
Hay is a waste crop here, grass hay anyhow. Very few work at top quality stuff, the market is saturated with slightly over ripe hay. $15-35 per big round bale. We are too wet around here, and hay is made from the ground you can't get drained to grow a row crop on. So it is lush and probably over ripe and maybe didn't quite get dried perfectly before baking, but there will always be plenty around.

A few folk make money custom baking, but really grass hay is a throw away thing here.

I can't believe the prices some of you can get for hay in different areas.

Alfalfa brings good money if made right, but a lot you see on auctions is there for a reason, and not worth too much either.

Paul
 
I've been setting on hay since 2 years ago till the last month now it has gone fast. 40.00 for 4x4 rounds. I have hauled hay as far away as TX from MI a few years ago would take a load about every 2 weeks. 46 bales per load.
All the 2nd and 3 rd is gone and about half of the 1st.
 
Sounds like an opportunity for someone with a truck and a trailer, if nothing else, to help out some fellow farmers in need and hopefully make a little money in the process.

Of course you guys receiving the hay you need to understand there are expenses involved and that the hay will cost more. You can't sit there and expect to pay local-during-a-hay-boom prices.
 

I'm close to running out and have to get with my hay guy to see if he has any left and can bring it over. Had surgery recently and still on lifting restrictions so no way to haul and mow it on my own. After doing my taxes and adding up what we paid for hay last year I see we need to reduce the herd, a lot.
 
With a feed conversion rate of around 6 pounds of feed for every pound of gain, when is it better to sell/haul cattle to where the hay is than to ship hay to the cattle, especially light weight feeder cattle?
 
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