Equiscan Shoeing Saare Saddles The Hay Company Educational Clinics Articles Clinic Dates Appraisal and Auction Services Contact Us Email	Miller Land & Livestock Leading provider of auction & appraisal services through North America Ray Miller The Hay Company The Hay Company was formed in part to market our own home grown Timothy/Brome grass horse hay to our horse shoeing clients here in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa. The second part was to bring in and market Prairie Grass Hay from Kansas. We have now expanded to offer this same quality hay and service to other horse owners. Premium quality Horse Hay is hard to find. That is hay, that has not been rained on, or that has no mold in it. We Guarantee all of our bales of hay to be free of rain and mold. We will refund or replace any bales of our hay found with rain or mold. Our Mission to Our Clients Is to provide the Highest Quality Hay available, for a fair market price. To save our clients the hassle of locating the hay, checking to see if the hay meets equine nutritional standards. To save the client the problem of trucking. To get a fair price for them in trucking the hay to their location. To be sure that they are assured of the amount of hay that they need throughout the year. Amount of hay needed You can figure 2% of your horse body weight per day. From Mid October to Mid May. About 210 days x 2% of Body Weight = lbs. of hay. A 1,000 lbs. horse will use 20 lbs. per day x 210 days = 2.1 tons per winter season. The Hay Company Product Line · Prairie Hay: Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), Little Bluestem (Andropogon scoporius) and Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) are three rather unique varieties of native grass which thrive in the "True Prairie Belt of Southeastern Kansas. The feeding value of these hays is unsurpassed among perennial forages. The crude Protein content of prairie hay, for example, will average between 5 and 10 percent; hay cut in early July will routinely run as high as 9 percent. The Total Digestive Nutrient content of prairie hay averages 50 to 60 percent. This hay is grown in fields which overlie a unique combination of sandstone and limestone formations. As a result, the hay produced in these fields is consistently sweet and nutritious. Because it is so palatable, prairie hay is an excellent hay for horses. The hay company that produces this hay has been in the hay business for 117 years. It has five generations of a family owned business. To ensure that the prairie hay they produce and sell is of the highest quality, they stress proper range management techniques and carefully time the cutting of their prairie hay meadows. They cut their prairie hay once a year, usually early in July. Great care is taken to ensure that the prairie hay is cut only when Total digestive Nutrient (TDN) and Crude Protein levels are optimal. To ensure that the hay is processed at exactly the right time, from eighty to one hundred people are employed to cut and "put up" the hay. They are members of the National Hay Association. This hay is in standard bales that weigh between 70 and 80 lbs or can be gotten in a double compressed bale size. Same weight but about one third smaller. Their hay is truly sold around the world, from the King Ranch in Texas to Arab nations. This is top quality horse hay. · Wisconsin Perennial Grasses: Our Wisconsin Hays are checked for quality. We select only the best Wisconsin hay. They are produced by a number of different hay producers throughout the state. Perennial cool-season grasses have long been an important part of the Wisconsin forage program. Perennial grasses have very diverse uses foraging from hay, silage, and pasture to sod for roadside and animal lots. · Smooth Brome Grass: Smooth Bromegrass is extremely hardy, long lived, and well adapted to the entire state. It can be grazed or cut for hay. Smooth Brome Grass is extremely palatable for horses. · Timothy: Timothy is a very hardy, bunch-type grass used primarily in mixture with Smooth Brome grass, red clover. Timothy is also extremely palatable for horses. · Timothy/Smooth Brome Grass: The mixture of Smooth Bromegrass and Timothy is one of the better horse hays in Wisconsin. Next to the Kansas Prairie Hay, this is the hay we select to feed our horses. · Orchard Grass/Brome/Timothy: Orchard Grass is a moderately winter-hardy, bunch-type grass. It is commonly grown in mixtures with grasses, such as smooth Brome Grass. This type of mixture makes a fair horse hay. Legumes · Alfalfa: Alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures are grown for hay over 3 million acres in Wisconsin. Alfalfa is high protein hay. Alfalfa is used and grown mostly for dairy milk production. In most cases, horses don't need a complete diet of alfalfa hay. Protein is money and your horse will probably not need the amount of protein that is in alfalfa hay. However it will not hurt the horse to be fed Alfalfa. · Alfalfa/Orchard Grass: Depending on the amount of alfalfa, this will make fair hay for horses. Again, you are feeding protein that your horse may not need. · Red Clover/Timothy/Brome Grass: Again, this makes fair horse hay. It has the same qualities as the Timothy/Brome Grass hay. Size of bales · Small squares--39# to 89# · Med Squares--450# to 800# · Large squares--800# to 1500# · Med to Large Round--550# to 2000# Other Hays: We can arrange for other types of grass and legumes hays or hay mixes. We also have hay sources in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado. Pricing All hay is sold by the ton. As hay bale size differs by the producer, all shipments are weighed. If you wish, we can divide the number of bales and come up with an average price per bale. Hay price will vary from day to day and month to month. The best time to buy hay is in the haying season. This is when you will have a lower price in most cases. Hay is a commodity. If you place an order for hay at such and such a price, you must pay for that hay that day. If you do not pay for it that day, the price may move up or down. No price can be guaranteed, unless paid for at time of order. If delivery is to be at a later date, there will be a storage fee applied. Payment Because of problems in the past, ALL HAY MUST BE PAID FOR AT TIME OF ORDER for Delivery. This may be done by personal check, money order, cash or credit card (if by credit card there will be 8% added to cost). Unless you have a tax resale number, all hay for horses is taxable in Wisconsin (WI residents 5.5% only). If you issue an NSF Check or Stop payment check, you will be charged both criminally and civilly for three times the amount of the check and cost. We do have financing and factoring available. This will range from 5% to 21% if needed. This is through a Commercial Factoring Bank in Chicago, Illinois. If you want to contract with us for an amount of hay for the coming year, but will not pick it up or pay for it until delivery is arranged, the price will be the current price per ton F.O.B. our location. You will then be required to pay trucking. Trucking Movement of hay costs money, man hours, gas, and equipment. All trucking prices will be by private treaty. In most cases, this will be $2.50 per loaded mile to your location from our hay barn. This will cover loading of hay and trucking to your location. It will be your responsibility for the unloading of the hay. This must be done in a timely manner. If you are buying in Semi lots 460 to 800 bales, you can figure four to six people two hours to three hours to unload by hand. If we are hauling to you in 120 bales or less, you can figure two people 30 minuets to unload. If you need manpower to unload, we can arrange this for $25.00 per hour per person. This will cover insurance and transportation to your location. Our drivers will not unload the hay. Moving Hay that you have purchased You may buy the hay and then pick it up at our location yourself or arrange for you own trucking. If that is done, we will have one of our people help load, but again you must supply enough labor to load in a timely manner. It takes 1/2 times longer to load then unload. You will need to make an appointment for this. Storage of hay If you order, pay for, and have us store your hay, there will be a storage fee applied to the hay in most cases. This will be to cover the insurance of product against lost and cost of building for storage. The Hay Company is here to supply you Premium Quality Hay at the best possible price with the least amount of Hassle. The Hay Company W 3410 Dore Rd. Lyndon Station, WI 53944 Email or Telephone: 608-524-0365
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