The price of hay

[Faster horses]

I just called a place up the road, a polo ranch, actually, to see if they have hay for sale. They do. They just cut it. $9/bale and the bales
usually weigh 65# he said. That's $270/ton. There are a lot of horses around here now, not sure how many will be here later on, or what kind of shape they will be in.
I knew hay was short, ours included, but that was shocking to me. Supply and demand at work...
We just can't do that to our hay customers. So call us stupid...

 

[leanin' H]

It's $12 to $15 bucks a bale for horse hay in SLC area.
The cheapest feeder hay I've seen is over $250 a ton

 

[Broke Cowboy]

We have a small hay field in front of the barn. It is only 8 acres but really good ground.
I cut that 8 acres of hay twice last year and got 65 very nice dry hay bales - four foot round bales. Sold all but four of them for $70 a bale. I was one of the cheapest prices around.
I could have sold those four bales as well, but I gave them to a couple of retired neighbors who are a bit hard up for cash and have a couple of horses that are mainly pets. It got them through to Spring grass and they were quite grateful.
I sold out completely of all the remaining bales in about a week or so after advertising them.
Hay is becoming hard to find these days.
Prices are going to go up big time in my opinion.
Best to all.
B.C.