Tracking hay prices so you don't have to. Free weekly USDA auction data across 80+ markets 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
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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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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.
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Been solving this for hay for the last year. USDA reports are solid data buried in PDFs, so we parse them into a live index and fill the coverage gaps with sold prices direct from producers.
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As part of USDA's Data Modernization Plan, we're hosting a series of listening sessions across the country to hear directly from producers as this plan continues to take shape! These listening sessions are an important step in putting Farmers First, restoring producer confidence in USDA data as the gold standard, and increasing survey response rates.
For additional information and details about a specific listening session, please email [email protected].
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HayWire is now on instagram!
Feel free to drop a follow!
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Nearing the holiday weekend; Thankful for the people who grow and haul what feeds this country.
One honest note before the weekend's out: the @HayWireag founding rate closes after the 4th. It's $14/mo, and it stays $14 for as long as you're a member. After that it's $17.
If the free, @USDA -backed Tuesday Wire has been useful to you, Pro is the rest of it: the Friday Pulse and The Call. Which is a directional read before Monday's auctions.
The free wire isn't going anywhere. But if you've been meaning to, this is the weekend for it.
Happy 4th, and thanks for reading. 🇺🇸
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#Hay #HayMarket #Alfalfa #Hayprices
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Shoutout @ColeGlasgoww for building this interactive map on the @HayWireag prices page.
Pretty cool, right?
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This is the right standard for food and ag data: could someone make a real economic decision from the number without getting misled?
Food quality needs the same discipline—methods, context, confidence, and decision-usefulness—not just attractive dashboards.
HayWire Data Standard.
The bar for "good enough" is: could a hay buyer use this number to make a $10,000 purchasing decision and not lose money because of how we reported it?
That is the only standard that matters. USDA can publish messy data because they're a government agency. HayWire cannot, because subscribers are making real money decisions based on what we publish.
This means:
Every number is traceable to a source PDF
Every unit conversion is documented with methodology and bale weight assumption
Every record passes validation before it touches the newsletter
Failures get fixed retroactively, documented, and used to build better safeguards
Anyone can scrape USDA. Almost nobody documents how they validate it. That's what separates a data company from a content aggregator. That's HayWire.
Get the Wire free every Tuesday
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The use of AI @HayWireag has been huge for what we built and visioned for our product. However, this isn’t one of those “I made this in 2 prompts and 30 minutes” posts you see all over social media.
We’ve spent a lot of time testing and working on the product to get it right. With these tools we’ve been able to build a purely data-driven model and flow that lets Haywire give accurate and insightful information about the hay market. Something that’s always been pretty gray.
The next addition we’ve decided to implement is using EIA’s open data API to pull in diesel and fuel prices. Hay is bulky, so transportation is a huge part of the delivered price. This lets us show buyers the real difference between FOB and delivered cost, and when high fuel prices are eating into the deal. I think will be one of the many big unlocks we add.
Check what we have going on over at haywireag.com
Would seeing fuel cost breakdowns actually help you when buying hay?
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Hay prices, this week.
National hay price index: $218/ton ▲ +3.1% WoW
Alfalfa $213 · Grass $167 · Bermuda $202 · Wheat $161
26 USDA markets · 181 verified trades · range $50–$745/ton
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I’ve been building @HayWireag with my former college teammate @aidenjohnsonn_
HayWire exists to bring real price transparency to the hay market. We turn USDA auction data into clear, current prices, a national index, every reporting market, and trends by state. So farmers, ranchers, and buyers know what hay is actually worth before they buy or sell.
Yesterday we reworked the prices page to better serve our subscribers, check it out!
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@TheStalwart uncovered a needle in the haystack by covering @HayWireag.
I woke up this morning to an email from them highlighting that there is a $125/ton gap on the same grade of hay.
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…
