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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Castle Farm on July 12, 2014, 08:11:24 pm

Title: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Castle Farm on July 12, 2014, 08:11:24 pm

Looking local (Welsh border Powys/Herefordshire)


Small bale prices are between £3.50 and £5.50.
Large round about £25.
8ft Long about £30-£35.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: in the hills on July 12, 2014, 08:51:55 pm

We have just paid £3.50 small bale. Baled to order and delivered to us and unloaded.

It was £3.25 if collected from the field.

Powys ..... between Welshpool and Newtown.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Mel Rice on July 12, 2014, 09:28:47 pm

25 euro delivered and rolled into place.....large rolls too (I got at least 5 in that space last year)

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Womble on July 18, 2014, 09:36:56 am

I've just been quoted £3.25 per square bale if I collect myself (Central Scotland).
 
Does anybody know how many I should buy to see half a dozen sheep safely through until the Spring?  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Daisys Mum on July 18, 2014, 12:28:10 pm

£3.00 a small bale collected and £20 for a big round bale off the field....Scottish Borders.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: sabrina on July 18, 2014, 01:15:12 pm

I have just paid £25 for round bales delivered. Seen small bales for sale between £3.50 to £4. Plenty going being made at the moment.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Bramblecot on July 18, 2014, 02:25:44 pm

Local Dorset farm shop this morning.  Small straw £4 and hay £6  :o . 

I  pay £2 straw and £4 hay (if I need to buy any, mainly we use our own).

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: devonlad on July 18, 2014, 03:45:52 pm

anyone asking for £6 a small bale for hay this year is having a laugh. just been offered some at £2 a bale which seems about right for the best grass growing year most farmers can remember.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Kitchen Cottage on July 27, 2014, 06:45:11 am

£2 off the field in East Essex

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: henchard on July 27, 2014, 07:56:57 am

£2.50 off the field here, plenty about but if it stays (desert like!) dry much longer here in south west Wales dairy farmers will soon be feeding fodder and prices could go up.

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Sudanpan on July 27, 2014, 07:23:01 pm

We just sold our hay -small bale - for £2.50 off the field. Well theoretically off the field but we do seem to have ended up stacking, loading, delivering and unloading hay for that...!

Title: Re: Hay prices for 2014/15
Post by: Porterlauren on July 27, 2014, 09:45:35 pm

£2.50. Lots about!