How much does a bale of hay cost?!
As an acre of land can yield 100 UK "squares" ( small bales ) I would have thought any money made from 3,000 bales would be so insignificant that it wouldn't be worth selling.
Just wondering, i was staggered to learn hay was worth so much.
any ideas what they earn ?
Sorry for posting this in the V&V section, thats where the other question was so I assume all "hay" related questions need to go here.
Answers: I saw a recent post in this forum where the questioner described 3000 bales of hay as yeilding "huge profit$".
As an acre of land can yield 100 UK "squares" ( small bales ) I would have thought any money made from 3,000 bales would be so insignificant that it wouldn't be worth selling.
Just wondering, i was staggered to learn hay was worth so much.
any ideas what they earn ?
Sorry for posting this in the V&V section, thats where the other question was so I assume all "hay" related questions need to go here.
Me-, (if that is you, Me-), you've said you weren't using the V&V forum when the trolls began hounding Michael H about selling hay. When I first started using V&V (not long ago) they were saying 'Michael H eats his chickens, he's admitted it'.
They gave that nonsense up when he said exactly what he claims to have said - I went back and checked - about selling hay, and began this campaign instead. Now they're trying to whip up a 'Michael H bullies young kids' slur, and you yourself have agreed that he was not bullying the child concerned.
Do you see a pattern emerging here?
This is character assassination, pure and simple. I don't know Michael H and we certainly don't always agree, but I dislike bullying intensely, and that is what their harrassment of him amounts to. One of the people who regularly repeats the hay stuff as fact, even dragging it into his 'answer' to a question about vegan 'meats', started using the forum long after the campaign began, and so never saw the Q&A concerned but just jumped on the bandwagon
I don't consider you to be a troll, and I would have thought you had too much integrity to join in a witch hunt. You're pissed off because Michael blocked you - seems there's a frenzy of blocking at the moment. I'd like to have answered fake Tracelicious' question about this but in between my reading it and attempting to answer it she blocked me. I've never had words with her - hell she even gave me 'best answer' once lol - so presumably she did it because she knew that I knew the facts and would respond with them.
She must be really pissed off that she hasn't had the answers she wanted; never mind fake trace, Skully will be along soon to add her venomous two-pennorth.
EDIT** Flexivegan (NOT Flexitarian-vegan aka nasty-nuts) Here is the link to the question from young woman working at McDonalds that has provoked accusations of bullying; You may want to check it out and decide for yourself whoo is doing the bullying
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Dont be sorry vegitarians rock!!
O.k.....I realize this question is actually a retort but in the U.S., it depends on where and what the bale consists of that determines its price. I bought about 100 bales for goats 5 years ago for 70 dollars (central IN). It wasn't quality hay either.
sorry, don't know what large scale baling acrues...
I don't know what hay goes for in the UK, but in the US it goes for like $20 or so a large rolled bail, or not a whole heckuva lot. Want a money crop, grow Marijuana or Opium poppies! On the other hand if you raise cattle, you might want to allow a few acres to be turned into hay for Winter use.
I've deleted my original answer because I was misinformed. Thanks for confirming you don't sell hay to the meat industry... I saw it mentioned so many times and didn't see you deny it so assumed it was the truth. Now I know that its just an attempt of the trolls to condemn you and think they're being pathetic. Sorry to have doubted you... I really was only going by what I had read on here. Even if it had been true I still thought people were blowing it out of proportion. Just try and ignore the trolls... hopefully they'll get bored of harassing you.
Everyone who lives in the modern world contributes in some way to animal suffering unless they are living in the woods off of berries and twigs. That is a fact. We all choose to what extent we contribute to that suffering. When you own a business and are selling to customers you typically don't ask them what they're doing with that product. It's none of your business! When I buy something from someone I don't find out what they're going to do with the money first to make sure it fits in with my lifestyle. People buying hay can be using it for other things besides farm animals due for slaughter anyway. And even if the customers are going to be feeding the hay to "food animals" then I'd take some comfort in providing them with clean, natural hay rather than crappy bagged feed filled with who-knows-what. In this same respect I would be in favor of reforming HOW slaughter animals are kept and making sure they are humanely killed rather than just turning my nose up and saying I want NO animals killed or nothing.
This is not supposed to be a place where we have to constantly defend ourselves to the trolls. It's supposed to be a place where people with knowledge about a vegetarian lifestyle assist those who are interested in learning more. The constant attacks are really getting out of control. This is not a debate forum or game to see who can come up with the most insulting and witty and tricky questions/answers and it's unfortunate that the "veg regulars" (myself included) keep getting sucked in by these personal attacks. It would seem that, for those who clearly get their kicks in debating the vegetarian lifestyle, there would be better places that are more geared towards debate than Yahoo Answers. Why don't you find one of those places and let this place get back to being the beneficial source for vegetarian information it is MEANT to be?
Last time I bought hay, a long time ago, it was less then a buck a bale for the 50 pound bales. You make more with small bales because you're getting people who don't need tons and tons of hay, they might have a horse or two and can't handle the large bales.
As far as profit goes don't forget you have a LOT more labor involved in small bales. So if you live in a place where people have small hobby farms and don't have a lot of storage, and can't handle large bales, you can make more money then the large round bales. But you'll work for it, nothing is free.
Hoped it helped.
about $3.00 for the straw for Halloween bales (rectangular), but they are free in the dumpster after Halloween...
LOL, trolls are stupid.
BTW, did you know that Meg and Skully are really veg people that are pulling an Ashley on the omnis by trying to make them look bad?
No one is really as ignorant as they are trying to make themselves seem.
I grow alfalfa hay in California.
This summer season has had record hay prices to go along with record feed prices in general.
We generally bale "big bales" for commercial dairies. Our bales weigh about 1375 lbs (625 Kilos) but they are sold by the ton (2000 lbs) not by the unit.
I just sold a lot of hay a couple weeks ago for $210/ton. With a bale at .675 tons, each bale in that lot would be worth $142.
The price range can vary of course and this year has been running from about $175/ton for "dry cow" hay with a TDN (total digestible nutrient) of less than 54% all the way up to $210 for "test" hay with 56%+ TDN.
The dairyman has to add trucking costs on to that to get it to the dairy, a minimum of $10/ton.
Hi, I just got here and thought this was a kinda odd question in the vegetarian forum. So I thought I would look.
I don't know for sure, but I sure would want to prove them fools if they accused me of something I didn't do and I could prove it.
You sure look guilty as hell if you don't. Just the thoughts of an old man.
By the way: Only a flat-out bully and manipulative person would lay a guilt trip on a young woman without producing any proof. It's the kind of thinking process a criminal does.
Yea, it's not the value of the hay, it's you saying you didn't do it when several people on here saw the original post, including me.