Paying $17.00 for blister beetle free 3 string alfalfa, and $8.00 for coastal in here in Dallas / Fort Worth

In the San Antonio region of Texas Coastal was $9.00 – $10.00 (on average) everywhere just a few months ago, even from private farmers. Now you can get it from $4.00 – $6.00 from private farmers, but the feed stores are still at $9.50. I personally get it for $5.50 just down the street from my house.
Up until a year and 1/2 or so ago it was an average of $3.00 for as long as I have been here, which was refreshing from Florida prices.
Alfalfa is about $12.50 or so and hasn’t really fluctuated.
I would have thought hay would be a lot cheaper in KY – blue grass state and all.
Thanks for that question, it’s cool to see the differences and lack of.

In southern California, we are paying $14.75 for a 14-flake bale of alfalfa, $12.50 for oat mix, and $18 for timothy. The alfalfa is grown 40mi away, so it isn’t just the transportation cost alone that’s driving up the cost. Water rates have tripled and drought has been declared, so I’m sure it will climb even higher, and soon!

I’m in texas paying 8.75 a bale for coastal. All the rain and flooding and humidity has made cutting horrible! And bales that I had stored in my garage covered with a tarp still molded because of all the moisture. This winter is going to be worse than last year because no one has been able to cut anything!

We grow our own, but the second cut stunk big time, so we’ve been pre-buying for winter at 2.75 a bale for a nice grass mix hay. This is a hay growing area, so we have little trouble, but have had to pay as high as 6 dollars a bale if we needed some towrds the end of winter in a really bad hay year, the last being about ten years ago. Oh, shoot. This is Southwest Lower Michigan.

In Northern California hay is getting scarce already, we had a dry winter/spring so every ones crops were pretty light.
Our regular suppliers are already out as they do not have a 2nd or 3rd cut so we are driving quite a ways to get a load next week to hopefully get us thru winter. We are buying it at $6 a bale (grass hay) which I will happily pay considering I pay $12-15 at the feed store up the road.

I live in eastern South Dakota and for grass round bales it is about $80/ton. I don’t know the price of alfalfa because I am lucky and have small alfalfa bales from last year.
We didn’t have rain for 38 days straight but the last 2 weeks we have been getting dumped on. I was happy to get my grass hay put up right, and now there is alfalfa still in the windrows that people can’t get to cure from all this rain and humidity.
Most people I know that have shed space for their hay aren’t selling this year because of the crazy weather patterns lately.
Take care!

I live in Canada and i payed 1.50$ a bale for mine(quality, no dust, not been rained on) I have 3 horses and 2 cows, the horses get a bale a day and the cows get 4!

I live in Australia and due to the drought here a square (small) bale of grassy lucerne hay is currently $30 AUD per bale, as you can guess many cheap horses here at the moment even yearling race horses well bred are only a couple of hundred dollars at the sales they are being sold for less than the price of entry in the sale no profit, and that doesn’t include the price of the service fee to get the foal in the first place. I know this hasn’t really got anything to do with answering your question but just wanted to let you know what can happen to hay prices when a drought hits, we have been in drought for a couple of years here. I think you should buy as much cheap hay as you can while you can. I hope your drought is a short one. its really horrible people can’t give horses away in some places here, and the doggers are buying some great horses cheap because people just can’t afford to feed them. sad really.

$5 for a 75 pound bale in Tennessee at the Ky state line