Tracking hay prices so you don't have to. Free weekly USDA auction data across 80+ markets every Tuesday
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The pricing layer hay always needed.
HayWire Pro benchmarks every load against USDA AMS verified auction data. Every US market, every grade, every week.
From your first load to your ten-thousandth.
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New story from @AllAgAllDay : high freight costs are making hay harder to move between regions, and drought makes it worse. Hay is bulky and low value per pound, so freight can erase the price advantage. Free weekly hay prices at haywireag.com
Someone quotes you a hay price. Is it fair?
HayWire checks it against USDA auction data by state and grade. Free every Tuesday.
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HayWire’s newsletter format got a HUGE upgrade.
If you buy or sell hay and you're not reading this on Tuesdays, you're playing from behind.
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That's August data. Two months old.
What sold last week: $170/ton national index, week of Sept 28.
Even Grok is behind on hay prices. Free every Tuesday at haywireag.com
US hay, this week.
National index: $170/ton, up 2.1%
Alfalfa composite: $156/ton, down 6.6%
Mixed grass: $180/ton, up 8.7%
21 USDA markets reporting
The slack is in average alfalfa, not hay as a whole. Good alfalfa held. South Dakota held. Every grass type moved up.
Buyers are paying for quality and passing on the rest.
Free every Tuesday.
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Hay prices have always lived in PDFs.
101 USDA markets. Different formats, different grades, different units. Useful if you have time to read all of them.
We spent the last year turning that into structured data. 124,517 records since 2019, cleaned and updated weekly.
31 issues of the newsletter in, and the same data is now available as an API for lenders, insurers, and ag platforms.
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Stop calling around to find out what hay is worth.
HayWire puts real USDA hay sales from 101 markets in one place. Pick your state, pick your hay, see what it's actually selling for.
Free every Tuesday at 6 AM.
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Hay buyers shouldn’t have to call around to find out what hay is worth. That’s the whole point of this. haywireag.com
Opus 5.5 made a full animated video for my SaaS in 20 minutes.
Voiceover, Music, Sound effects Everything.
unreal.
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Colorado's average, five markets in. 34 trades, from $70 utility mix in Topeka, Indiana to $428 supreme mix at Wolgemuth, Pennsylvania.
One to watch: Pipestone, Minnesota. Good alfalfa reported at $221, up 48.2% from last week's price.
National index sits at $170. More markets report through Friday.
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Week of Aug 31 is in.
HayWire national hay index: $171/ton. Up 0.8% week over week.
23 markets. 123 trades. Range $50 to $490.
Every one an actual sale. No estimates, no asking prices.
Right at your fingertips…
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I’ve seen so many farming AI companies pitch ranchers the same thing. A genius advisor that tells you what to do.
Ranchers don’t want it. They’ve been reading their land for 30 years. They don’t need a chatbot second-guessing them.
What they kept telling me and @ColeGlasgoww is they wanted something boring. Something that pulls every reported and missing hay price onto one screen.
So we built it. @HayWireag
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We gather it so you don't have to.
Get the latest prices and news every Tuesday for FREE. haywireag.com
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Just moved into my new apartment at my new college getting ready for my junior year. Reflecting on the crazy summer I’ve had.
Summer stats:
1 Bloomberg podcast.
350 producers talked to.
134 regions tracked.
122,602 price records processed.
66,000 clean enough to publish.
3.4M Reddit views.
3 partnerships.
Hundreds of farmers mad at me, most of them fairly.
27 newsletters published.
733 hours of screen time (do not do the math).
6 states, 1 country.
1 girlfriend who has heard more about hay than anyone should.
Averaged a 37 minute walk every day, the only time I went outside.
2 Diet Cokes a day on average.
Got to build something real with one of my best friends. Newsletter 6am Tuesday.
Hay index, week of Aug 17: $175/ton, up 0.8%.
First uptick after three straight weeks down.
21 markets, 117 quotes. Range $60 to $480.
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