Small square bales of horse hay are hard to find in parts of Kentucky as spring begins, reports grower Mark Flynn.
“They’re few and far between right now,” he says. Flynn and his father, Ron, put up alfalfa, mixed-grass and timothy hay on 400 acres at Flynn Farms of Kentucky near Louisville. “We had some pretty brutal weather for four or five weeks in January and February with lots of snow. Horse owners and livestock producers were feeding up a lot more hay than usual.”
The Flynns market most of their production within 150 miles of the farm. They sold out of small squares by late December.
“We usually have some stock to carry through until the end of January,” he says. “But our production was off a little last fall because we didn’t have as much rain as we would have liked. Then we had the early snows, so people were buying earlier than they normally would.” Some large round bales of grass hay are still for sale.
While the supply has tightened, area prices have remained fairly constant through the winter.
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