One board. Every price we can find.

If you buy hay

See what it costs near you before you call anyone.

See every seller near you side by side, and what each one charges, before you call anyone.
A verdict on each price: good deal, fair, or high, measured against the sellers around you.
Free to browse. No account, nothing gated.

See the board

If you sell hay

Put your hay where buyers are already looking.

See what everyone else near you is charging before you set your price.
More eyes on your hay. Every buyer checking prices in your area sees it, including the ones your posts don't reach.
Free to list. Buyers can reach you about your hay.

Sell hay

How we check.

Every price on the board earns its place. These are the rules.

Every listing links to a live source.

Click any row, you land on the seller’s own website, ad, or directory entry. If we can’t link it, it doesn’t go on the board.

Re-checked all season.

We work through the regions on a rotation, so a given listing gets looked at about once a week, and every row shows the date it was last checked, so you never have to take our word for how fresh it is.

Price per bale, the way hay is actually sold.

That’s the number the seller quoted and the one you’ll pay. We show the seller’s bale size next to it, because a $50 bale and a $60 bale tell you nothing until you know one is a 4×5 and the other a 5×6.

Cost per ton only when the seller states a weight.

Then it’s exact. When they don’t, we leave it blank, we won’t put a number on the board that nobody told us.

Verdicts compare like with like.

“Good deal” means measurably under what the same size of bale costs near you, computed from the board itself, never a made-up “going rate,” and counted one price per seller so nobody tilts the yardstick by listing twice. Prices from fewer than six sellers nearby and we say nothing at all.

Warnings stay on.

Last year’s crop, light bales, stored-outside rounds, “not horse quality”, if the ad says it or we spot it, it’s labeled, not hidden.

Why BaleWise exists.

We were buying hay for our own farm. My wife found a price on Facebook Marketplace, from the same seller she always buys from, and it was steep. I said I could find better.

I couldn’t. Not because there wasn’t cheaper hay nearby, but because there was no way to see it. The prices were scattered across farm websites, feed store pages, Craigslist, Marketplace, a directory here and there, a dozen places, no two alike. I spent an evening at it and still couldn’t tell her whether her price was a good one.

So I built the thing I’d wanted that night: every hay price I could find, in one place, side by side. That’s all BaleWise is.

It started in June 2026 in Massachusetts with the sellers near home, and it’s still growing, town by town, state by state. It’s independent and family-run.

Jack, Massachusetts. Independent and family-run.

Talk to us.

Spotted a wrong price? Selling hay? Want BaleWise in your area? We read everything.