My grain went up 30% in 2022.
Alfalfa is up about 20%.
My farrier just increased trims by 25%.
With fuel increases it costs me 54 cents per mile to buy the fuel to drive down the road with my truck and trailer. Not including the cost of the truck and trailer, insurance, maintenance, oh and paying me a little bit for my time.
But I’m supposed to substantially cut the small profit I make training and selling horses to make it more affordable for you? Got it. 
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one that has me sort of wondering on this cold snowy day is the current value of our weanling’s siblings … he won a major championship against a lot of well qualified horses as well his half brother had won the same championship two years prior (they had the same mother)… now the siblings of our weanling who have not been campaigned are being valued by their current owners (not the breeder) in the low to mid 30k
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Last new horse I got was almost 3 years ago, so not that long.
You can try and justify it all you like but in my thinking the overall, across the board, outrageous spike in horse prices are not just due to inflation. This is all horses not just the high dollar ones.
Plain and simple they are overpriced-- The exception I can see is you can still get a TB at a decent price and there are some other finds if you look at all possible places…
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