Nationwide hay marketplace

50 states · live benchmarks

Find, price, and ship hay across the country.Every bale. Every state.

Balehaul turns the patchwork of Craigslist posts, Facebook hay-sale groups, and legacy listing boards into one searchable, transacted supply chain — with live price-per-ton benchmarks, freight quotes, drought-aware matching, and escrow-protected payment built in.

Feeder hay near $175/tonAlfalfa $215–220Premium Timothy pushing $240

Live marketboard

Updated 14m ago
Timothy$240/ton+3.2%
Alfalfa$218/ton+0.8%
Bermuda$192/ton-1.1%
Prairie$168/ton+4.7%
Orchard$208/tonflat
Drought signal: TX-OK panhandle

Currently rerouting

142 loads matched to drought-region buyers this week

50states covered
6forage categories indexed
$215avg alfalfa benchmark
<24hmatching turnaround

Why Balehaul

One workflow for the booking, the haul, and the money.

Listing-only platforms leave the margin on the table. Balehaul owns the load end to end — so the price you see is the price the hauler and the farmer agree on, and the payment releases on delivery confirmation, not a phone call.

  1. 01

    List or search

    Sellers post tonnage, RFV, and load location; buyers filter by forage, distance, and price per ton.

  2. 02

    Match with freight

    Integrated ag haulers quote the lane — on-farm pickup or delivered. Distance and rate shown side by side.

  3. 03

    Ship and settle

    Balehaul Pay holds funds in escrow and releases on delivery confirmation. No handshakes, no IOU notes.

Forage coverage

Six forage types, indexed with a live national benchmark.

Spot prices update as listings settle. Region-specific benchmarks surface when drought summers reshape the strip.

Timothy

$240/ton

Cool-season grass — horse standard.

Verified listings include RFV, NDF, and protein analysis

Alfalfa

$215–220/ton

High-protein legume, dairy workhorse.

Bermuda

$190/ton

Warm-season, Southern staple for cattle.

Orchard grass

$205/ton

Palatable mix partner, versatile across regions.

Prairie grass

$165/ton

Native blend, drought-tolerant — Western rangeland.

Feeder hay

$175/ton

Workhorse ration for cow-calf operations.

For buyers

Escrow that releases on delivery, not a handshake.

Funds are held when you book. Balehaul Pay releases them only after both sides confirm the load arrived — no wire-and-pray to a stranger, no IOU spreadsheet at the kitchen table.

  • Funds held at booking
  • Released on delivery confirm
  • Disputes routed to a human mediator
  • Verified RFV/NDF/protein included

For sellers

List free. Compliance is handled at checkout.

Every interstate load runs through Balehaul’s compliance layer before funds move. If a state combination triggers a bee, pest, or weed-seed quarantine, the lane is flagged with the exact regulation — reroute, document, or split the load at the right crossing.

  • Free standard listings
  • Verified tier drops RFV data inline
  • State-line paperwork surfaced
  • Drought-aware reroute alerts

Common questions

How the platform actually behaves at the kitchen table.

Hands-on answers for the buyer or seller who has spent two hours scrolling Facebook hay-sale groups and is ready to try something that settles the load.

Get on the platform

There’s hay on a truck within 500 miles that should be on yours.

Send Balehaul your load — tonnage, forage type, RFV if you have it — and the closest drought-region shortfall it can fill. The matching team replies within a day.

Reach the team

balehaul@polsia.app

We’ll route on-farm listings to a seller onboarding flow and buyer requests to a freight-quoted search.

Email balehaul@polsia.app