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Farm News: Crops Go Up While Cattle Go DowncommentsPosted: 08.03.2010
Prices in Wisconsin for steers and heifers, oats, alfalfa hay, and other hay are expected to decrease from June to July. Calf, milk, corn, and soybean prices are expected to increase during the same period. That's the up and down rollercoaster ride that Wisconsin farmers are living! As of mid-July the average price Wisconsin farmers received for corn was up 3 cents from last month, but a down 34 cents from 2009. It was the same scenario with soybeans. Statewide soybean prices increased 26 cents per bushel from June, to an average of $9.67 per bushel in mid-July. This is $1.43 less than the July 2009 price of $11.10 per bushel.
Nationwide - oat prices have pretty strong for 2010! In Wisconsin the average bushel of oats was priced at $1.93 in mid-July, level with July 2009 prices but down 14 cents from last month. Nationally, oat prices were $2.29 per bushel, up 26 cents from last year.
Alfalfa hay in Wisconsin sold for an average price of $110.00 per ton as of mid-July. This is $10.00 less than in June, but $20.00 more than the July 2009 price. The average price for other hay types, at $80.00 per ton, is down $5.00 from June but up $15.00 from the July 2009 price of $65.00 per ton. Wisconsin steer and heifer prices averaged $86.50 per hundred-weight (cwt.) in mid-July, down 50 cents from last month. The average price for beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter, at $57.00 per cwt, did not change from June to mid-July. Mid-July |