Why would straw be more expensive than hay?

[redhen]

Not by much, but still.. Straw was $9.75 a bale and hay was $7.25...
I would think that since hay is mainly feed for animals, that it would be more expensive.. No?

 

[debilorrah]

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$7.25 a bale????

Ours is $14. And yes, straw is MUCH cheaper.

 

[redhen]

Thats what if figured, I just thought it was weird that straw was more expensive than hay...

*you all know that little things amuse my little brain..*

 

[Fred's Hens]

Wow!! Our straw, clean and yellow, is only $3 a bale. Even the "higher priced" places only get $4.50 a bale. Geeeeeesh. If there is shipping, trucking and handling involved, it raises the price I reckon.

 

[Sword]

Around here, they charge tons for straw because people just get two or three as decorations for their yard, and so are willing to pay a higher price.

 

[gritsar]

There's no hay available anywhere around here right now. Our neighbor/leasee told us he is down some 600 round bales now. They got only one cutting vs. the five or six they usually get.

Tomorrow I will be traveling north where they got a bit more rain than we did this summer. If I can find a square bale of hay for under $20 I am going to buy it and be glad to get it. I don't want to resort to straw in my nestboxes, so I really need that hay. Dang cow busted into the pumphouse and ate what I had left of a bale.

 

[teeville5]

Wow. I pay $2.50-3 depending on where I stop for either hay or straw.

 

[dainerra]

I bought a bale of hay a couple weeks ago. $5, but it wasn't really good quality. I get mixed grass hay, but this looks like it was cut with a lawn mower or something. Just small scraps of grass packed together.

straw here is $4.50

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Stray went up in price recently locally because people are buying a lot for Halloween decorating. Is it always that price for you, or is it a temporarily inflated price?

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

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