What HayWire does.
The free weekly newsletter goes out every Tuesday morning. Real USDA auction prices from 22 markets in a typical week — regional spreads, quality breakdowns, what auction floors are actually clearing. Built to be read in two minutes. No fluff, no guessing.
HayWire Pro is for operators who need to act on the data, not just read it. It is the Friday Pulse and The Call before Monday's auctions, a dashboard that checks your loads and quotes against the market, the week's data, and a direct line. Every Friday before Monday's auctions the Pulse says what moved and what to watch, and The Call names the price levels it will be graded against; every grade is public, misses included.
The prices page gives you the full regional breakdown updated weekly — trend direction, quality spreads, and the recent weeks of history. The full record behind it — every reported sale back to June 2019 — is what the index is built on, and Pro members can request it as a CSV.
The moat isn't the code. Anyone can scrape USDA. The hard part is the relationships — Rock Valley Hay Auction, one of the largest hay-only auctions in the Midwest, is a confirmed data partner. The hard part is also the community: producers, buyers, and ranchers across the country who share what they're actually seeing on the ground. Private sale prices. Field conditions. Local market dynamics. The stuff USDA never publishes.
HayWire exists because a $15 billion market was running on rumors and word of mouth. Every buyer who makes a better decision because of this data is the point.
