Know what hay
is actually worth.
Every USDA hay auction price, gathered and checked in one place — then turned into a free weekly read, a live price board, and a dashboard for buyers and sellers. Know what to pay before you haggle.
| Region | Grade | Avg / ton | WoW |
|---|---|---|---|
Rock Valley, Iowa Alfalfa |
PREMIUM/SUPREME | $205.00 | ▼ −3.2% |
Alabama, Southeast Bermuda Grass |
PREMIUM | $271.00 | ▲ +2.5% |
Idaho, East Alfalfa |
SUPREME | $303.00 | ▲ +23.8% |
Wyoming, East Alfalfa |
GOOD | $270.00 | ▲ +3.9% |
Shipshewana, Indiana Alfalfa/Grass Mix |
GOOD | $233.00 | ▲ +19.8% |
Supporting findings.
The evidence file →One place for the
whole hay market.
Hay prices used to live in scattered PDFs and word of mouth. We put the whole market in one place — gathered, checked, and simple enough to use in the time it takes to read a text.
We gather the prices.
Every week we pull real sale prices from USDA auction reports across the country — plus results emailed straight from the barns and prices reported by members.
We check every number.
No asking prices. No guesses. Every figure is a real, reported sale, checked against a sanity range before it reaches you — so you can quote it and trust it.
You use it three ways.
Read the free Tuesday wire, look up any market on the live price board, or open the Pro dashboard to track your own buying against the market.
The full US hay market,
in a five-minute read.
Every Tuesday morning at 6 a.m. Central. Real USDA auction prices, organized by region and grade. Built for buyers and sellers who need the number, not the narrative.
- A. Average 234 price records per issue
- B. 26 auction markets reporting in a typical week
- C. Plain-English commentary on the spreads that matter
What the wire shows this week.
Your own numbers,
against the whole market.
Log what you buy or sell and the dashboard shows it against what the market actually paid that week — so you can see, load by load, whether you got a good deal. Set your state, your hay, and your season budget; it does the rest.
- A. Every load benchmarked against the same-week local price
- B. Season savings, budget, and a check-a-quote tool
- C. Buyer or seller — the whole board flips to fit you
The reads that come
with Pro.
Beyond the raw numbers, Pro members get the analysis: the Friday Pulse before Monday's auctions, and The Call — one clear read on where the market is headed. Plain-English, no jargon, built to help you time a buy.
See Wire Intelligence →The hay market,
on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots.
We went on the biggest podcast in finance to talk about the business of hay: a $15 billion market that ran on word of mouth, and the wire we built to fix it. If the episode brought you here — welcome. The story’s short, and the wire is free.
Pay for Pro with
one decision.
Pro costs less than what one 50-ton buyer overpays by not knowing the local price. See the spreads, the moves, and exactly where your price stands — before the money changes hands.
One good buy covers years of Pro.
Free tells you what happened.
Pro tells you what to do.
Free covers the market. Pro is for buyers and sellers who want the dashboard, the directional reads, and a direct line.
- Tuesday market wire, 26 regions in a typical week
- Live prices page, sortable & filterable
- Public version of The Call
- Everything in Free
- The Pro dashboard — your buys benchmarked against the market
- Wire Intelligence — the Friday Pulse and The Call
- Direct line for market questions
Know what hay is worth.
Every Tuesday.
Free USDA-backed hay market intelligence, delivered every Tuesday morning at six o'clock Central.