We're located at 3110 Eagle Ave in Rock Valley. It is located across the road east of Town & Country Implement. ATTENTION: WE ARE CURRENTLY HAVING MONDAY & THURSDAY AUCTIONS. WE HAVE HAY FOR SALE PRIVATE TREATY ON OUR WEBSITE. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE "HAY FOR SALE" TAB AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE. Rock Valley Hay Auction has been selling hay and straw for over 70 years. We sell on average 4500 loads annually. Let our experience in hay and straw marketing work for you.

Auctions begin @ 12:30p.m. Monday auctions are held November through April in addition to the year round Thursday sale.

Contact our office if interested or have any questions at 712-476-5541.

Thursday December 19, 2019
75 loads.

Today’s sale brought good buyer attendance with alfalfa selling mostly steady.  Overall the quality was decent.  Grass market was a little low with a lot of average quality grass.  Straw was a little weaker and cornstalks were steady.

------ALFALFA-23------

SIZE    LBS  $/TON CUT

lgrd  52500 195.00 4th

lgrd  37320 180.00 2nd

lgrd  50470 175.00 2nd

lgrd  55690 172.50 2nd

lgrd  44360 170.00 3rd

lgrd  43580 170.00 3rd

lgrd  57940 165.00 4th

lgrd  49420 162.50 2nd

lgrd  45280 160.00

lgrd  48450 160.00 1st

lgrd  56300 157.50 1st

lgrd  55680 157.50 3rd

lgrd  65500 155.00 3rd

lgrd               150.00 2nd

lgrd  48420 150.00 1st

lgrd  47720 145.00 2nd

lgrd  45580 145.00 2nd

lgrd  45560 142.50 1st

lgrd  51400 132.50 2nd

lgrd  49740 130.00

lgrd  47900 125.00 1st

lgrd  47520 120.00 1st

lgrd  42260 115.00

-------GRASS-43-------

SIZE    LBS  $/TON CUT

3x4   48720 110.00

lgrd  49820 155.00

lgrd  45900 155.00

lgrd  38880 152.50

lgrd  51420 150.00

lgrd  45380 145.00

lgrd  21080 142.50

lgrd  45360 140.00

lgrd  46900 140.00

lgrd  42840 135.00

lgrd  48980 132.50

lgrd  50540 132.50

lgrd  47440 132.50

lgrd  47000 130.00

lgrd  50960 130.00

lgrd  17520 125.00

lgrd  44520 125.00

lgrd  47780 125.00

lgrd  49380 122.50

lgrd  45820 122.50

lgrd  19240 120.00

lgrd  41360 120.00

lgrd  50780 120.00

lgrd  50500 120.00

lgrd  42360 120.00

lgrd  41900 120.00

lgrd  52120 120.00

lgrd  51480 117.50

lgrd  49860 117.50

lgrd  48860 117.50

lgrd  53780 117.50

lgrd  44980 117.50

lgrd  52560 115.00

lgrd  43580 115.00

lgrd  43420 115.00

lgrd  39720 112.50

lgrd  45700 110.00

lgrd  45400 110.00

lgrd  45580 100.00

lgrd  45280 100.00

lgrd  53780  97.50

smsq   3280 170.00

smsq   2520 120.00

*Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman sitting already dressed on his bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted that he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, I asked him if his wife was meeting him. “I don’t know,” he said. “She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”

 

 

 

Monday December 16, 2019
35 loads.

Market was lower on average. Alfalfa sold steady.

Straw-2

SIZE   LBS    $/TON 

lgrd  42060 105.00

lgrd  47740 102.50

 

Cornstalks-6

SIZE   LBS  $/TON

lgrd  49280  62.50

lgrd  50140  60.00

lgrd  48260  60.00

lgrd  53060  60.00

lgrd  50140  57.50

lgrd  46960  52.50

**Last Christmas, Grandpa was feeling his age, and found that shopping for Christmas gifts had become too difficult.  So he decided to send checks to everyone instead.  In each card he wrote, “Buy your own present!”  and mailed them early.  He enjoyed the usual flurry of family festivities, and it was only after the holiday that he noticed that he had received very few cards in return.  Puzzled over this, he went into his study, intending to write a couple of his relatives and ask what had happened.  It was then, as he cleared off his cluttered desk that he got his answer.  Under a stack of papers, he was horrified to find the gift checks which he had forgotten to enclose with the cards.

 

 

 

 

Monday December 16, 2019
35 loads.

Market was lower on average. Alfalfa sold steady.

Alfalfa:11

SIZE   LBS    $/TON CUT

lgrd  49240 175.00 3rd

lgrd  50240 170.00 2nd

lgrd  44300 170.00 2nd

lgrd  47900 147.50 3rd

lgrd  50940 145.00

lgrd  48640 145.00 3rd

lgrd  45760 135.00 1st

lgrd  39660 132.50 1st

lgrd  43320 120.00 1st

lgrd  52280 115.00 4th

lgrd  42280 102.50 1st

GRASS: 16

SIZE   LBS  $/TON

lgrd   1860 135.00

lgrd  18940 130.00

lgrd  47760 130.00

lgrd  17180 125.00

lgrd  52720 125.00

lgrd  46980 125.00

lgrd  49160 125.00

lgrd  54240 120.00

lgrd  50660 120.00

lgrd  52040 117.50

lgrd  32260 107.50

lgrd  51700 102.50 millet

lgrd  46520  97.50 millet

lgrd  46620  97.50 millet

lgrd  44920  92.50

lgrd  45800  92.50

** Last Christmas, Grandpa was feeling his age, and found that shopping for Christmas gifts had become too difficult.  So he decided to send checks to everyone instead.  In each card he wrote, “Buy your own present!”  and mailed them early.  He enjoyed the usual flurry of family festivities, and it was only after the holiday that he noticed that he had received very few cards in return.  Puzzled over this, he went into his study, intending to write a couple of his relatives and ask what had happened.  It was then, as he cleared off his cluttered desk that he got his answer.  Under a stack of papers, he was horrified to find the gift checks which he had forgotten to enclose with the cards.

 

 

 

 

Thursday December 12, 2019
72 loads.

We had a decent run in today with good buyer attendance. Alfalfa sold steady to stronger. Grass aslo sold steady to stronger. Straw sold very well and corn stalks sold steady. Overall quality at the auction was good. We will NOT be having a sale on Thursday December 26, 2019. No other sale days will be affected this holiday season

Straw-9

SIZE   LBS    $/TON 

3x3    8500 110.00

3x3   44600  92.50 oats

lgrd  45900 137.50

lgrd  43960 135.00 wheat

lgrd  41440 132.50

lgrd   1140 132.50

lgrd  46940 130.00 wheat

lgrd  49440 130.00 oats

lgrd  51460  95.00

 

MIXED --7

SIZE    LBS  $/TON

lgrd  41100 145.00

lgrd  47020 142.50

lgrd  41660 137.50

lgrd  53060 137.50

lgrd  46020 130.00

lgrd  42900 130.00

lgrd  40880 122.50

Cornstalks-9

SIZE   LBS  $/TON

lgrd  46780  85.00

lgrd  49260  82.50

lgrd  48620  80.00

lgrd  45540  77.50

lgrd  41520  75.00

lgrd  52600  75.00

lgrd  43960  70.00

lgrd  52200  70.00

lgrd  51880  60.00

** A couple were in a busy shopping center just before Christmas. The wife suddenly noticed that her husband was missing and as they had a lot to so, she call him on his mobile. The wife said, “Where are you, you know we have lots to do.” He said, “You remember the jewelers we went into about 10 years ago and you fell in love with that diamond necklace? I could not afford it at the time and I said that one day I would get it for you?” Little tears stared to flow down her cheek and she got all choked up… “Yes, I do remember that shop,” she replied. “Well, I am in the gun shop right next door to that.”