Bid4Hay.com is a simple hay classifieds and hay auction based service to bring hay  buyers and hay sellers together and further expand and broaden the geographic boundaries in the hay industry. With the ever increasing need for hay and feed products it is important for buyers and sellers to have a means and system design to help provide a process for price discovery and price determination among a greater region and audience. By providing a broader and widely accessible market for hay, buyers and seller alike can benefit financially by increasing both supply and demand factors of the hay industry to a wider region; thus, providing a more elastic demand for hay, thereby decreasing the variability in price received for hay sellers and increasing availability of hay for buyers.

Using Bid4Hay.com's hay classifieds listing and hay auction listings will enhance sellers exposure, while also providing a supply and demand driven hay marketplace that could effectively enhance and create more value for the seller by allowing hay buyers to bid on their product. Buyers will be able to perform a zip code search for nearby hay for sale; as well as, search for quality attributes that they may desire such as crude protein, ADF, NDF, TDN and/or RFV. By displaying data in sort-able columns users can then sort for the lowest or highest values in the marketplace or within a range that suite their needs. Once again creating a benefit for the buyer to find the exact product they are looking for and a potentially higher dollar amount paid to the seller. Bid4Hay.com encourages sellers to quality test their hay prior to listing to help buyers identify quality attributes they may be seeking and of course so the seller can be paid premium on quality products.

Oklahoma State University data from 1992-1993 suggest this:
One % increase in protein.......................................................................$1.97/ton increase in price
One unit increase in RFV ........................................................................$.22/ton increase in price
One unit increase in ADF.........................................................................$1.03/ton decrease in price
One unit increase in NDF.........................................................................$1.08/ton decrease in price
One % increase in TDN...........................................................................$1.07/ton increase in price
Source: Alfalfa Quality and Hay Market Price. Retrieved on March 6, 2007 from Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Services, at http://alfalfa.okstate.edu/webnews/market5.htm

Although bale size and market structures have change in the last 10 years, this data illustrates that quality tested hay can help to better establish premiums to the seller and provide critical data to the buyer to better assist in ration formulations.

Quality testing is not required to list your hay, although Bid4Hay.com encourages the testing of all hay listed, in order to create a more friendly and efficient marketplace for the buying and selling of hay. Don't hesitate to list with Bid4Hay.com today.