Help on pricing haylage please

[JohnnyP]

I'd appreciate some advice on where to price my 2014 haylage. It's only my second year producing surplus forage and could use some help! I produce mini-round bales of haylage using the Star mini-baler from Danelander. The fields are permanent pasture, not re-seeded, fertilised at 500kg/Ha of 16-16-16, and the bales weigh between 40-50kg, average 45kg, and are wrapped with 4 layers. It's first cut (incredibly for Isle of Skye, I did actually manage a small 2nd cut for hay too). The cutting routine was Day 1 cut and spread, Day 2 ted, Day 3 row up, bale and wrap. I'm feeding it to my cows right now and it's a sweet-smelling, yellow haylage.

The nearest product on eBay seems to be 30kg conventional square bales of haylage for about 6 pounds, but that looks like a professional product. I can't deliver, plus my fields aren't top quality (although there's no ragwort or rushes), so I was thinking about 6.50? And I've only got about 100 or so to go...

Thanks for any input. John.

[ann]

£6.50 sounds very fair to me.

[JohnnyP]

Thanks Ann. My other point of reference is what I used to buy in - small square bales of hay at 4.80 delivered, which was so coarse that at least a third was inedible. The reason I started making my own!