wow,,last yr and this its bringing big bucks. I had been giving it away but now im keeping it all for goats. 7-9 bucks a bale here.

Heck straw is 6-8 bucks retail

They've been bailing hay here the last two weeks

here also

Most around here is being baledin big bales, mostly big round bales because you can't hire hay help no mater how much you offer them. When I was a kid I made 50 cents an hour and was glad to get it.

They do a lot of what I call super square bales around here. Have to be picked up with a skid tongs

$7-$9 / bale? LOL Who told you that? Other than very specific varieties sold to crazy horse people, or maybe sold to someone desperate, it's not bringing anywhere near that.

Here in western Oregon it's sold as soon as you can bale it. Most headed over to eastern Oregon.

I'm seeing nice quality 1st cutting timothy and orchard grass around here for 4.50-5 a small square

Last time I baked hay 2014 or 15 got $10 an hour. Had to stand by elevator and drop bales on at an even pace so I did kill the guys up in the barn.:). They have the wagon that picks up bales in the field and then stacks them on the wagon. When they get to the barn it tips up and sets the stack down in the barn( about 7-8 bales high I think) my job was to send up bales to stack them higher.
Easy work if you can get it.

thats because youre in hillbilly land....they want everything free. Last yr up here grass hay sold out at 6 a bale. This yr orchard grass with a little alfalfa and timothy with a little alfalfa is 7-9 a bale.
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Here in NY straw $7/bale and hay $4-5/bale.

A bale? Can weigh 60 - 140 lbs. for a two or three tie. How much for a ton?

I attended our local hay sale yesterday. There were 20 lots that varied in size from 2 ton to 22 ton. Not many small square lots at the sale, Poorer 1st cutting was $75-$90 per ton. Better first was $100-$110 and 2nd or 3rd was $125-$130. Large square 1st cutting was about $120 per ton. Large square clean grass was $50-$180 per ton. Clean and green 2nd and 3rd cutting large squares were from $170 to $290 per ton. Clean straw used in rations $140 per ton, bedding straw $80-$100 per ton. Most of the cleaner hay was from western states for large dairy herds. It was a hard year to make dry hay in eastern WI last year and quality was down. We are right in the middle of major 1st cutting for bunkers and piles and it is wet and ground will get soft after today. RFV dropped like a rock the last week so forage quality is already lower then hoped for.

Bryce

Here in NH....a local farm trucks in Canadien Hay first cut 50 lb bales = 13.00 per bale...Ouch ! We are paying 70.00 for Round bales

Good third and fourth cutting alfalfa here in the winter time will bring a pretty penny. I've seen it go for $10 to $14 dollars a small bale . Horse and sheep -goat owners pay that much. Prairie hay easily goes for 5 or 6 bucks to $10 a small bale pretty fast. Right out of the field the big round bales sell for a fair amount too. Our first cutting alfalfa was short here and early brome hay will be short too. Pretty dry this spring here in my area of SE Nebr.

I bale hay off a few surplus acres, both mine and my neighbors. Small square bales sold to equine and goat market. Selling 50 pound bales (standard used to be 60 pound bales, but this market will pay the same for 50 pounders as that is all many of the buyers are physically able to handle). But 50 pounders for $5 min, and have sold as high as $8. That translates to $200 per ton......to as high as $350 per ton. I pay 60 cents a bale for labor to haul it, and they way we do it, a two person crew can make as much as $45 per hour, so they show up when I call. A couple buyers insist on picking it up from the field themselves, and that does not hurt my feelings at all.

Hay market is very local. Some buyers very knowledgable, others clueless. Have finally educated enough buyers about what quality hay looks like that I can sell all I have to repeat customers.

But in small lots, I can double what I make by selling in small squares. Finding reliable labor is the key......most kids would rather lick a skunk's rear end than touch a hay bale.