Wanted: balage contractor in Albany area?

Due to surplus feed, I'm considering making balage for the first time. We don't have a barn so think balage would be better than hay as can store in paddock.
Is it logical to be doing this at this time of the year?
I am in the Coatesville, North Auckland area.
What costs should I expect?
Thanks.

Why not pop into the "RD1" in Albany and see if there are any contractors cards etc. Or "Falloons Stockfood Supplies" in Dairy Flat.

Try Turner Haymaking 021-969-279, we have had them for hay and they were very good.
Don Waterson, Kahikatea Flats Rd, not sure of his number.

Best thing would be to ring the contractor to check out what you have.
I would assume the grass would have seeded by now, meaning the best nutrients have gone. It may only be good for silt control unless it is all new growth due to this strange growing weather.

Spoook, anything is better than nothing in a hard winter or a dry summer. I would not condemn this crop sight unseen. To paraphrase my real farmer neighbour "even crap hay is better feed than a snowflake". I know it doesn't snow very often up there but we don't get droughts here.

Has every hazard been marked? Have all the old posts and stel pipes and waratahs been removed? If not, and the equipment gets damaged, then the cost will be in the thousands.
The cost will depend on the number of bales, the distance from the contractor, and the speed that he can do the job. Budget about $50 per bale.
Getting balage done may be difficult, because the big squares will be tied up doing hay. The big rounds should be more possible but they are difficult to feed out without a big tractor. Little cubes are too heavy to lift, and I find pulling a biscuit of balage off a big square very easy, so I've never done little cubes. They also have much more wrap to get rid of.
Before you start, work out where you are going to store the bales. I have mine about 1 meter away from a permanent fence, and then I attach netting and hotwire around the other 3 sides to keep the sheep, goats and cattle out. I stack mine so that they are up and down a slight slope. When I open a bale I start at the high end so that the biscuits don't fall out on top of me.
If you don't stack the bales immediately after they have been wrapped, then the bales should be left sitting where they fell off the wrapper, for at least 2 weeks.
As spoook implied, old and rank grass does not make good balage (or hay). One bale of old grass balage will feed 20 cattle for 1 day, rather than 30 cattle with young grass.