Straw is very pricey in Devon and Cornwall this year. £4 and £5 a small bale. I was offered some at £3 but I didn’t follow that one up as I was having my time wasted by someone else
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I’ve paid £7 a bale for small bale haylage - it’s excellent stuff, mind, no waste at all, not a crumb! and it’s for Hillie our milk cow, so we don’t resent it.
I bought a load of straw, small bales, from our local agri merchant. I’d seen a bale in the store and it seemed fine. £4 a bale, so as good as I was going to get, and I could have it delivered if I bought £300-worth.
When it arrived, every single bale was wrapped
. There are lots of advantages - takes up less space, could store somewhere not completely rainproof, keeps it clean of cat and dog poo, etc - but I wouldn’t have bought it had I realised I was buying so much plastic. The driver says it’s mostly wrapped these days. I’d never even heard of wrapped straw.