I think prices are rocketting because of the cold weather.
what REALLY REALLY BUGS ME is the waste i see driving around. Bales being put out for horses, and the scatterings obviously not being picked up. Call me Scrooge but i go out every evening and scrape up the scatterings for the horses in their stables, before they get their nighttime haynets. I reckon that, out of every large bale put out in my field we waste only half a haynet....whereas others seem to waste half of each of their bales- they get left and trodden into the ground.
these are the folk who then clamour for more hay cos they are running out, thus driving prices up etc
And dont even get me started on the waste of straw, when folk muck out
Emma T