> I ended up paying $7.50 per bale for this timothy, which probably did average > 40 pounds per bale. I guess it could be worse.
Karen, my mom and dad live 30 min. outside Wytheville VA--one of their part-time neighbors lives 30 miles south of them, in NC. They are complaining about the lack of hay, so I guess it's bad all over your area--the whole SW maybe? We got lucky this year. Hay is plentiful and cheap here--I paid $5/ bale for nice grass hay, a bit stemmy, but fine for my boys. They are about 60-70# bales, pretty much our norm. No one around here sells a 40# bale, that I know of. When we had a bad time a few years ago, hay was $8+ per bale (about the same size, 50-60# grass), very hard to come by. But then a bunch of people up north brought tractor trailer loads in, up from where it was cheap and plentiful. That helped a lot for the cattle ranchers in CO. Robyn S
