Version 1, interim terms in force from 2026-08-07, 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 for your animals. You are responsible for access at your delivery address and for the hay once it is off the truck.
**Assumption of Risk and Responsibility, Hay Pools**
*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 checking this box and committing to a share, you ("Buyer")
acknowledge and accept the following. This is separate from, and in
addition to, the Pool Purchase Authorization governing payment.
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,
suitability chip or other figure shown on AgBid is laboratory
information about a composite sample, published so you can make
an informed decision. It is not veterinary or nutritional advice
and AgBid does not give any. You are responsible for deciding
what to feed each animal, and for consulting your own
veterinarian or equine nutritionist before doing so.
3. **Metabolic and at-risk animals.** If you keep animals with
insulin dysregulation, PPID, laminitis, or any other 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 in the lot. 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 any 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 that is 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. **AgBid is not the seller.** AgBid operates the platform, the
payment rails, the ledger, the freight arrangement and the
mediation process. The hay is sold by the grower named on the
pool. AgBid makes no warranty, express or implied, of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose in respect
of the hay itself.
10. **What AgBid does stand behind.** The arithmetic. Every figure
on the ledger, the freight passed through at exactly the
published quote with no AgBid margin, and the mediation process
for quality and delivery disputes, with lot-traced records and
the ledger as evidence.
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.