MOUNTAIN HAY FOR SALE PRICING AND INVENTORY
This hay truck is loaded with 26 4'x5' round bales weighing about 1,000 pounds each, for a total weight of around 13 tons. You can make small round bales like this with a $35,000 tractor (retail) and a $13,000 baler. If you're shipping short distances, this solution might make sense.
This truck is being loaded with 42 3'x4'x8' square bales of straight alfalfa weighing about 1,800 pounds apiece for shipment from the San Luis Valley to a dairy in Texas, for a total weight of about 38 tons. Obviously, it is more efficient to make square bales if you're planning to ship your hay long distances. However, large square balers cost about $100,000, and the tractors that pull them cost about $250,000. Oh, and the front-end loader costs $80,000...Hmmmm....but with this setup, you can load a truck in 7 minutes!
NEW ACQUISITION: LARGE QUANTITY OF QUALITY GRASS/ALFALFA COW/HORSE HAY
This hay is from a ranch right next to my hayfields. I know the quality of the hay. It is excellent horse hay and cattle hay--about 20% alfalfa and the rest high-protein native mountain grasses. This hay is put up in large round bales that weighed 1,800 pounds when baled and have shrunk down to about 1,650 pounds apiece with very few, if any, weeds. $140 a ton. Posted 11/10/2009. There are good quantities available, but it will go fast. Call now. 970 988 2122. grandviewranch@gmail.com
NEW ACQUISITION: LARGE QUANTITY OF QUALITY GRASS/ALFALFA SMALL SQUARE BALE HORSE HAY
I personally know this hay grower, and he does a GREAT job raising quality hay. For those of you looking for a high concentration of alfalfa, buy this hay. It's probably 75% alfalfa and 25% mountain grass hay, with practically zero weeds. This is absolute top quality horse hay. You break open a bale, and you want to eat it yourself. $7 a bale, delivery available at additional cost, semi loads of 450-700 bales ONLY, except in the North Fork and Roaring Fork valleys, where delivery of 150-bale loads is available. POSTED 11/10/2009 call 970 988 2122
At Grandview Ranch, we grow hay on 100 acres of mountain ranch land. We bale about 300 tons of hay a year. We are surrounded on all sides by productive hayfields belonging to other ranchers who raise hay for sale. We can often obtain excellent quality hay in our local area from other ranchers if we run out.
Most of the ranchers in our area put hay up in either large round bales weighing up to 1,800 pounds each, or small square bales (actually rectangular) that weigh 60-65 pounds. Very few ranchers in this part of Colorado bale hay in large (3’x4’x8’) square bales. Ranchers use the round bales to feed out cattle and most horse owners use small square bales to feed horses.
You can purchase our hay in either round bales or square bales. Our square bales are 14”x16”x42” and weigh between 60 and 65 pounds. We have found that our buyers generally appreciate a lighter bale rather than a heavier bale. Many of our small bale buyers are women, and can’t stack heavier bales.
GRANDVIEW RANCH SQUARE BALES:
First cutting grass/alfalfa mix $7 per bale
Nice green hay, very nutritious, excellent quality 00 bales available SOLD OUT--NO INVENTORY LEFT. RESERVE NOW FOR 2010.
GRANDVIEW RANCH ROUND BALES:
First cutting grass/alfalfa mix $100 per bale
(00 bales available, 1,000-pound 4'x5' round bales, excellent hay) SOLD OUT--NO INVENTORY LEFT. RESERVE NOW FOR 2010.
PRICES WILL BE GOING UP. HAY QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED. BUY NOW OR PAY MORE LATER.
NOW ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR 2010 HAY. CUSTOM ORDER YOUR BALE WEIGHTS, CONTENT, AND PICK THE FIELD WHERE YOUR HAY IS GROWN.
Come on over, we'll show you around, and you can order exactly the hay that you want. You want 50-pound bales? Okay, fine. You want 1,500-pound round bales? That's fine, too! Let us know, and we'll provide exactly the hay that you want.
