Hay is one of the biggest crops in the country and it trades almost entirely in the dark. We went on @Bloomberg to talk about the business we're building to change that. Listen: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… See the data subscribe free: haywireag.com

NEW ODD LOTS The 20-year old college student who’s building the “Bloomberg for hay” @tracyalloway and I talk to @aidenjohnsonn_, the co-founder of HaywireAG, a burgeoning media and data empire bringing transparency and insight the hay market open.spotify.com/episode/1uO…

Everyone follow @aidenjohnsonn_. I think with any luck we can get him to start posting more about hay. And if you’re a young journalist, you should look what he’s building at @HayWireag which is one of the most exciting new media startups I know of right now.

My college friend and I have been working on a startup. It helps farmers know hay auction prices that are hard to find in hundreds of USDA auction documents. So far we have: 200 Free Subscribers 3 Paid Subscribers 1 Data Partner Will be on the @business odd lots podcast soon.. Let me know what you think about the site, I am open to suggestions. @HayWireag haywireag.com

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Platte Valley delivered ground alfalfa up $35/ton week over week. Round bales up $10-20. Cornstalks up $20. Grass hay flat, alfalfa is doing all the work. Report called demand “very good.” The cornstalks number is the one to watch. Stalks are the cheapest roughage in the Plains. When alfalfa gets expensive, cattle guys substitute into them. When even the cheap substitute is up $20 in a week, there’s no escape valve in the ration. Kansas same week, demand strong, inventories tight, prices “substantially higher” per the report. Drought Monitor 5/21, Oklahoma Panhandle hit D4, worst category there is. Southwest Kansas and southern Colorado expanded to D3. Long-range outlook keeps High Plains drought through summer with above-normal temps May–July. Carryover from last year is thin. If first cutting comes in light where demand is heaviest, the buyers who waited pay the spike. You may have a decision to make, Pay now or pray for rain. If you’re selling with hay coming, you’ve got way more leverage than you did three weeks ago. Stay up to date!

Hay prices hitting $483/ton in Colorado - double normal. Horse families forced to give up animals they've loved for decades because feed costs became impossible. Geography determines everything right now.

HayWire was quoted in Cowboy State Daily today on Wyoming's hay shortage. $375-380/ton for alfalfa cubes. Essentially sold out. The data has been telling this story for weeks. @daily_cowboy cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04… (cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04…)"

My scraper confidently told my subscribers that premium Colorado hay was $168/ton this week. real number was $280. turns out "per bale" and "per ton" are different things. who knew. Rock valley Auction caught it before i did. saved the newsletter from being a work of fiction.

Hay in Pennsylvania: $457/ton. Hay in South Dakota: $115/ton. Same week. Same crop. We track this spread across 69 markets every week at HayWire. If you're not watching regional prices you're leaving money on the table. haywireag.com (haywireag.com/)

Wyoming is sold out of hay. Not low. Not tight. Sold out. This is what happens when drought hits a state that's already a net exporter. The ripple hits Nebraska, Colorado, Montana next. Watch the Plains prices this summer.

the guys who bought hay in october are not stressed right now. the guys waiting to see what happens this summer are going to wish they didn't. that's just what the data says.

Dakota SD alfalfa up $50/ton in one week missouri up $113/ton three weeks ago Iowa is next. watch pipestone

Nebraska had fires. the west has a 27-day water allocation for the whole summer. missouri already spiked $113/ton. midwest hay supply is getting squeezed from every direction right now first cutting can't come fast enough

Alfalfa is 3x more expensive in Washington state than Iowa right now same crop. same week. that gap exists because most buyers have no idea what the auction cleared before they negotiate

Talked to 4 different people this week stressed about hay one buying, one selling, one thinking about producing, one mad about wet bales. Nobody has good pricing info in their region. That's literally why I built HayWire. haywireag.com

unpopular take, most people buying hay have no idea what it's worth. they just pay whatever the broker says. that's the whole problem

Dakota SD alfalfa just jumped $50/ton in one week. Missouri supreme has held at $275 for two straight weeks now. Rock Valley is seeing buyers driving further than usual to fill trucks. The pattern is spreading. Plains markets are next. #agtwitter #haymarket #farming