Just wondering how much everyone is paying, we're at $3.50 a bale (delivered) here in upstate NY.. 
Fiddlegirl and Danielle, where are you, please? Just the state is fine. Thanks!
Here in Missouri you can find bales for $2.00 all the way to $6.50, and this is for cheap grass hay. I have priced brome and its around $7.00 to $9.00. Mind you this is for the small square bales. Now for the rounds, I have seen anywhere from $50.00 to $80.00. Thats without delivery.
Note: I am having 150 bale delivered next week, (Grass hay) at $4.25. Plus delivery price($30.00) as I currently have no truck to haul my trailer with. The grand total is $665.50.
Lord, please make next season nice and rainy so I can keep all my horses. Because if hay prices are like they are now, I will have to down size. I dont even know how I would be able to choose which one has to go. "(
Consider yourself lucky! Here in parts of the midwest, there is none! If you find some at a feed store, its pushing $5.00!
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Thats cheap, here in northern IL the cheapest is $5.25 for grass, most are $6-7 a bale.
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It was 2.50 in the summer for a nice-sized bale, but now it's going be 2.50 a bale for a small sized-bale,
up in MI
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Man ship some of that down to me in TN!!! reg grass hay is going for about 8.25 a bale prarie grass is 14.25 and alfalfa is 18.25!!!!!!!!! You can find some bales for 5-7 but they are crappy bales not really worth feeding. putting this way the cows wont even eat soem of the cheap hay!!!!!
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We pay 2.50 a bale here in Southern MI. We grow our own for the most part, but the neighbor is having ancient tractor issues, so we wind up buying a couple hundredlots in the summer for the winter months. Most it has ever been around here is 6 dollars in a year it rained the entire season. Many farmers here are getting 4th cuts this year. We live in an excellent hay area. I wish we had more acreage we could put into hay to help people. And I sure wouldn't charge highway robbery prices for it. I can't get rich on other people's problems, it goes against my grain.
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Nice green alfalfa bales are $4 now, they were $3 last year. Timothy is comparable. Poorer quality grass hay will sell slightly lower.
I buy only a few square bales, they are necessary when I haul to shows or the trainer, but otherwise I use round bales. We bale our own round, but even if you buy them they are about $35 - $40 a 1000 -1200 pound bale, which comes to much cheaper than the square, so I can afford the wastage that comes with the rounds.
Did you know that a new round baler can cost $70,000! That isn't the price of the tractor, just the baler! At that cost my bales seem quite reasonable, and it helps explain why hay costs as much as it does!
Oh, and I almost forgot to say that I live in Alberta, Canada, where a second cut of alfalfa is fairly rare!
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In southeast Georgia its anywhere from $4.00 - $9.00 depending on what kind of hay it is. We just payed $4.00 a bale for mixed grass bermuda hay and they were small bales..
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Dang…I'd love to pay 3.50 for it to be delivered! That'd save me from getting my car full of hay! Down in Mobile, Alabama, hay bales used to be 3.50, but have gone up to $4-$5 the past couple of years. I only buy hay in the fall, so it's possible it's cheaper in the summer.
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I'm in Lexington KY and paid $5.25 per bale for timothy but that was a month ago. I think it's now over $6 per bale and some of it is pretty crappy
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$3-4 a bale, delivered
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a regular small square bale ( the kind you can lift, not the 1000 lb ones) are $2-$2.50 each for grassy hay, no alfalfa, and $3-$3.50 for alfalfa mix, and $3.50 -4 for pure alfalfa.
A lot really depends on who you know as well. We got a bunch of mix hay for $1 a bale because we knew the farmer. Luckily, with 8 horses and our pastures, we only go through about 800-1000 bales a year.
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depending on the quality anywhere from 3 to 5 only pick up in minnesota
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Here in Newell South Dakota, they are selling 3rd cutting alfalfa for $4.00 a bale, stalky stuff though. In Sturgis, South Dakota, they are selling wheat grass, grass mix for $4.50 a bale at the local floral and tree store. We cut our own hay and it's prairie hay. People around here in Newell do a lot of irrigation and they got 5 to 6 cuttings off their alfalfa fields this year…wouldn't touch it though. Can't be anything but stalks. I don't know about delivery though. We got a lot of moisture this summer so the farmers around here say that we are going to have a big winter full of snow as the last time they got such a big crop of hay was 10 years ago and that was the last winter that we got a good amount of snow fall too. Interesting to see all the different prices in hay though. I know that I will be buying a few round bales this year as we started haying late. We get them from a friend though and don't pay that much for them. It's just grass hay but it's good and clean.
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Last I remember it was two bucks a bale (grass hay), but now we're baling our own hay. We also get round bales for our boarding arena, but I'm not sure how much those cost.
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Here in Missouri you can find bales for $2.00 all the way to $6.50, and this is for cheap grass hay. I have priced brome and its around $7.00 to $9.00. Mind you this is for the small square bales. Now for the rounds, I have seen anywhere from $50.00 to $80.00. Thats without delivery.
Note: I am having 150 bale delivered next week, (Grass hay) at $4.25. Plus delivery price($30.00) as I currently have no truck to haul my trailer with. The grand total is $665.50.
Lord, please make next season nice and rainy so I can keep all my horses. Because if hay prices are like they are now, I will have to down size. I dont even know how I would be able to choose which one has to go. "(
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Southern california 18.50 for Timothy, 17.50 for orchard &15ish for alphalfa. Someone put a big rant on here about the cost of feed in there area how it was up to almost $5 a bale! Sheesh! We should be so lucky! I could afford more rescues if the feed were cheaper here!
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In Johannesberg South Africa where i live it costs R26 per bale. But prices are on the rise due to shortage of rain. Not that this of any help but if your interested.
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That's what I usually pay in Indiana in a non-drought year. This year it's drought, though, and it's bringing about $5 for a 75-80 lb bale with any color at all at the local sales.
I bought alfalfa for $4.00 off the wagon in the barn (lucky, lucky lucky) and another guy is wanting $7 for his alfalfa squares. Another guy wanted $8 for his clover squares.
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