What hay sold for this week in 20 US states, per bale and per ton

Every USDA Market News direct-hay report turned into one table per state: hay type, grade, bale size, quantity, price range and weighted average, with the report's own market comment. Free, in early access.

Who this is for

Horse owners, small ranchers and anyone who buys hay by the bale or by the ton and wants to know what hay actually sold for in their state this week, not what an article from a few years ago says it cost.

The problem

USDA Market News publishes a direct-hay report for 20 states every week or two, with the type, grade, bale size, quantity, price range, weighted average and freight terms of every reported sale. It comes as a PDF of 2 to 10 pages, split by region, and the per-bale small-square prices a horse owner needs sit on page 3 behind the dairy and feedlot tonnage. Search "hay prices in kansas" and the results are undated trade-press rewrites of that PDF, static guides and, at the bottom, the PDF itself.

What this does

One page per state with that state's most recent USDA report turned into a single table, per-bale rows first, then per-ton rows, with confirmed trades separated from asking prices and the report's own market comment quoted above the table. Each page also gives USDA's monthly state average for scale. The tables on this site were built from the reports listed below (525 price lines across 20 states, 225 of them per bale). The finished product will rebuild every state page every Friday from that week's reports and keep the previous week visible, with its date, when USDA publishes nothing.

What is free and what is early access

The state tables are free. The weekly email, your state's new prices every Friday when the report comes out, is in early access: leave your email above and you will be the first to get it when it launches. No listings, no classifieds, no prices submitted by users: only what USDA reports.

How to read the table

The reports behind each page

The other 30 states have no USDA direct-hay report. The finished site will show USDA NASS's monthly state average for those states where NASS publishes one, labelled as monthly.

Where the numbers come from

All data is from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock, Poultry and Grain Market News direct-hay reports (public domain, the report list comes from the public MARS endpoint) and USDA NASS Agricultural Prices (29 September 2026). Links are listed below.