As of mid-May, the average price Wisconsin farmers received for corn was $3.35 per bushel, 2 cents below April and 53 cents below May 2009. Nationwide, corn prices averaged $3.41 per bushel in mid-May, down 55 cents from May of last year.

Wisconsin soybeans decreased 23 cents per bushel from April, for an average of $9.30 per bushel in mid-May. This is $1.20 below May of last year. U.S. soybeans sold for $9.28 per bushel in mid-May, down $1.42 from the May 2009 price of $10.70 per bushel.

Oat prices in Wisconsin averaged $1.95 per bushel in mid-May, down 12 cents from April and 14 cents from May 2009. Nation-ally, oat prices were $2.04 per bushel, down 60 cents from the May 2009 price of $2.64 per bushel.

As of mid-May, alfalfa hay in Wisconsin sold for an average price of $120.00 per ton, up $5.00 from April. The average price for other hay types, at $90.00 per ton, is also up $5.00 from April.

Wisconsin steer and heifer prices averaged $92.20 per hundred-weight (cwt.) in mid-May, $2.20 above April. Prices for beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter also increased $2.20 per cwt. from April, to $59.00 in mid-May. Calf prices in mid-May were $145.00 per cwt., up $1.00 from April.

At the U.S. level, steer and heifer prices in mid-May were $13.30 per cwt. above May 2009, at $101.00. Prices for beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter, at an average of $59.50 per cwt., were up $10.70 from May of last year. Calf prices, at $123.00 per cwt., were up $12.00 from May 2009.