Garden Straw doubled in price

Geo-TH,In · Jul 23, 2022

My neighbor is my source for garage straw.

Last year $2. This year $4 for a wire bale of straw.

I can't complain. $4 a bale is what I should have paid him last year.

He's my age. 73, and bales hay and straw.

Has old equipment. Does round and square bales.

I noticed he had bailed square bails of hay and left them on the ground.

He said he never dreamed that no one wants to help throw bails for $20/hr.

I didn't mention he only charged me. $2 Last year. What everything costing more I'm happy paying $4.

What is hay and straw going for in your neighborhood?

What's part time farm help going for in your hood?

Dad had a gizmo we attached to the side of a wagon that would lift the hay about 7 ft off the ground so no one had to pitch the hay on the wagon.

What do you call that gismo?

stevob671 · Jul 23, 2022

Lot of asking anywhere from 4 to 8 dollars around here (Minneapolis). Most being 5-6. Sold some wheat straw at auction in 2020 went 6.50, my cut 5.85.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jul 23, 2022

I will get $3 off the wagon and $4.00 out of the barn next winter for rye straw. Should be cutting and baling next week. Tom

GermantownGreen · Jul 23, 2022

Graves pop up loader,
I'll get you a picture tomorrow.
I have the angled version, but I learned
On the pop up version. It tended to curl the bale up, my angled version has a cable to raise it in elevation as you get a taller load.
It can do little round bales too. GG

GermantownGreen · Jul 23, 2022

Graves pop up loader,
I'll get you a picture tomorrow.
I have the angled version, but I learned
On the pop up version. It tended to curl the bale up, my angled version has a cable to raise it in elevation as you get a taller load.
It can do little round bales too. GG

tomNE · Jul 23, 2022

$20 green cash paid daily will sometimes get you help and sometimes, NOT!

sandcastle1 · Jul 23, 2022

last year, $50 for a 4x4 round bale, I have not come up with a price for selling this year's hay yet.

Richard G. · Jul 23, 2022

Our son has been getting $4 for a while.
He has to go up now because of fuel costs.
When I was young enough to help him, we loaded it all by hand.
One year he put up 17000 bales.
For several years now, he has used a bale accumulator and grabbers on his loaders to load, unload and stack.
He round baled a lot this year and got it stacked in the big sheds.
An outfit buys it and they rebale it to sell.

Kansas4010 · Jul 23, 2022

In this area round bales are bringing $70-$90 a bale regardless of size. Pastures are about burnt up and people are desperate. Army worms came through and destroyed many peoples brome fields last year. This year all that came up was weeds.

560Dennis · Jul 23, 2022

Pretty cheap ,better buy ahead for next year

flying belgian · Jul 23, 2022

8 dollars out of my roadside stand. I pay my help 18/hour.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 23, 2022

$5/small square bale of straw in central NY.

paul · Jul 23, 2022

Straw = fertilizer, fertilizer doubled. Add in the extra labor costs. Add in twine and fuel costs.

Its tough to make anything even with double of last year.

Most of us know this, I know.

mjbrown · Jul 23, 2022

Lots of beautiful wheat straw being baled in ny this year.

redforlife · Jul 23, 2022

I charged 2 dollars for those who wanted to pick there own up out of the feild at harvest time (twine, not wire tied).

I charge 4 dollars if they get them out of my shed.

Would of went up this year, but I did last year, and hated to go up in back to back years. Considering going up another 50 cents atleast, for next year.

I charge 15 an hour for labor. That's not for throwing bales, but for pretty much anything else. That's going to be going up too, it looks like. The way things are going, I don't think that is going to work much longer.

Dopp Creek · Jul 23, 2022

For as long as I remember I have paid $2/bale for wheat straw out of the field. I put 80-120 in the loft each year for bedding and sell some to friends with chickens or muddy yards for $4/bale. Last year my cost went to $3/bale so Im charging $6.. Im sure the feed store is double whatever Im charging.

showcrop · Jul 24, 2022

I have never heard of garage straw. What is it? I'll bet that you are posting about bales and baling. I can tell because hay bales and boats don't often got together. I was paying $15.00/hour for hay help fifteen years ago.

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