Version 1, interim terms in force from 2026-08-11, pending final legal review
Hay is an agricultural product, not a manufactured one. You decide what to feed and your vet decides what is safe. You inspect what arrives, you are responsible for access at your address and for the hay once it is off the truck, and you understand you authorize a maximum and are charged the real, lower figure.
**Buyer Pool Terms**
*Version 1. Interim terms in force pending final legal review. A counsel-reviewed version will replace this one, and you will be asked to accept the update.*
By accepting these terms when you set up your account on AgBid, you
("Buyer") acknowledge and accept the following for every hay Pool
share you commit to. These are the standing terms; the Pool Purchase
Authorization you accept when you commit to a specific share governs
the money for that share.
1. **Hay is an agricultural product.** It is grown, cut, dried and
baled outdoors. Colour, leaf, stem, moisture, weed content and
nutrient values vary between cuttings, between fields, and between
bales in the same lot. Natural variation within a lot is expected
and is not by itself a defect.
2. **Feeding decisions are yours.** Any forage analysis, grade band
or suitability figure shown on AgBid is laboratory information
about a composite sample, published so you can decide with open
eyes. It is not veterinary or nutritional advice and AgBid gives
none. You are responsible for what you feed each animal and for
consulting your own veterinarian or nutritionist first.
3. **Metabolic and at-risk animals.** If you keep animals with
insulin dysregulation, PPID, laminitis, or any condition affected
by sugar, starch, protein or mineral content, you are responsible
for having the hay evaluated against that animal's needs before
feeding it. Sugar and starch figures on this platform are
measurements, not clearances.
4. **A composite is not every bale.** A forage analysis describes a
sample pulled from a number of bales. It does not certify any
individual bale, and it cannot detect what a lab panel does not
test for, including weeds, foreign material, mould in a single
bale, or an animal carcass baled in the field. Inspect what you
receive.
5. **Inspect on arrival.** Look at your hay when you take delivery or
collect it from your stop. Report any visible problem through
AgBid within 48 hours of collection, with photographs, so it can
be handled through mediation while the evidence still exists.
Problems reported after the hay has been fed out are difficult for
anyone to resolve fairly.
6. **Access and unloading at your address.** If a stop is delivered
to your property, you warrant that a loaded flatbed can reach it
and turn around, and that any equipment used to unload is
suitable, maintained and lawfully operated. You are responsible
for the safety of your site during delivery and for damage arising
from access, ground conditions or unloading at your address.
7. **Hosting a stop.** If you receive a stop on behalf of neighbours
you are a temporary receiver, not a seller, warehouse or bailee
for hire. You owe reasonable care to keep the hay dry and
protected until collection, and nothing more. Buyers collecting
from your address do so at their own risk, and you are responsible
for the condition of the area you invite them into.
8. **Storage and handling after delivery.** Once the hay is off the
truck, how it is stacked, covered, ventilated and stored is yours.
Hay stored wet or poorly ventilated can heat, mould, and in
extreme cases combust. Neither AgBid nor the grower is responsible
for deterioration caused by storage or handling after delivery.
9. **How the money works.** When you commit to a share you authorize
a worst-case maximum. You are charged the real figure, which is at
or below that maximum and falls as more barns join the Pool behind
you. Freight is passed through at exactly the carrier's quote and
AgBid takes nothing from the freight line.
10. **AgBid is not the seller.** AgBid operates the platform, the
ledger, the freight arrangement and the mediation process. The
hay is sold by the grower named on the Pool. AgBid makes no
warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
in respect of the hay itself.
11. **Limitation.** To the extent permitted by law, AgBid's liability
arising out of a Pool share is limited to the amount you paid for
that share. AgBid is not liable for indirect or consequential
losses, including veterinary costs, loss of use of an animal,
loss of competition or breeding income, or property damage
arising from storage, handling or feeding after delivery.
12. **Your indemnity.** You agree to hold AgBid harmless from claims
brought by third parties arising out of your own acts or
omissions in receiving, storing, handling or feeding the hay,
including claims by people you invite onto your property to
collect it.
13. **Nothing here removes your legal rights.** Where the law of your
jurisdiction gives you rights that cannot be waived by agreement,
those rights are unaffected by anything above.