marsha
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Hay
What is everyone paying for hay this year, off the field this way at the moment is fetching £4 a small bale
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Julie
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Here too - when you can get it!
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L-J
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Hay £3/small bale up this way, sadly my asthma means we feed haylage if they need supplementing & that is £5/small bale
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vakizz
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£3.00/bale just up A1 from you Marsha. Depends on who you ask and where. Have negotiated with a friend to buy some this year, first lot meadow hay,
£3.00 second lot might have been slightly less, but I don't mind friend making a bit as she is storing for me. Some people up here jumping on
bandwagon and saying there is a shortage and not sure there is, unlike Bucks area which has had no rain for weeks and weeks.
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susie
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Its £3.50 to £4 here for decent size bales.I would prefer haylage for winter though as am allergic to hay
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JoandZef
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£3 from my usual supplier but they are huge and very dense so good value - but others are charging £3.50 for a looser bale. He did say that the
quality this year is superb, but there isn't the quantity (they didn't get the rain at the right time), so God knows what we'll do if the winter is as
prolonged as it was last year.........sorry to be pessimistic.
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marlee
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I bought three bales last week and it was £5.95 for a square bale . There is a lot of people saying that there is going to be a shortage of hay again this year.
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Rossie
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We are at livery on a farm that makes hay and I can assure you it isn't scaremongering! He tells me he's made approximately half the amount of bales
he normally takes off the same acreage. Round here, from another supplier, we can get small bales at £3 plus £10 delivery. Another supplier is / was
trying to charge £5 a bale!
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Lysander
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just had 14 big bales of haylage £26 each delivered,he said his small bale hay is £4.50 per bale,and he's already had a dealer trying to buy it off of
him,but he;s going to hang on to it for now.he 's hoping the dry weather comes back so he can cut the rest.( we've had rain for weeks in wales)
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BrocksfieldJo
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People have been paying £8 from the feed merchants round here Our
farmer has made less than half the amount he normally hopes for and will be putting his up to around £5 but wont take on any new customers to be sure
he can supply his regulars. I buy big round bales of hay or haylage at about £35 each.
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