Posted: 02.02.2010

Prices in Wisconsin for corn, soybeans, and potatoes are expected to decrease from December to January. However, prices for steers and heifers, beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter, calves, alfalfa hay, and other hay are expected to increase during the same period. Prices for milk and oats are expected to stay at about the same level as December.

As of mid-January, the average price Wisconsin farmers received for corn was $3.45 per bushel, one cent below December and 60 cents below January 2009.

Wisconsin soybeans decreased 70 cents per bushel from Decem-ber, for an average of $9.40 per bushel in mid-January. This is a 39 cent per bushel decrease from January of last year.

Oat prices in Wisconsin averaged $2.01 per bushel in mid-January, the same as in December, but down 75 cents from Janu-ary 2009. 

As of mid-January, alfalfa hay in Wisconsin sold for an average price of $115.00 per ton, up $5.00 from December. The average price for other hay types, at $90.00 per ton, was up $10.00 from December.

Wisconsin steer and heifer prices averaged $78.00 per hundred-weight (cwt.) in mid-January, $2.50 above December. Prices for beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter increased $3.20 per cwt. from December to $45.20 in mid-January. Calf prices in mid-January were $129.00 per cwt., up $2.00 from December.

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