Hay Market Report for the Upper Midwest for December 10th, 2024

Dec 10, 2024

By Becky Brathal

About the Hay Market Report:

All data have been compiled by Jason Cavadini, Grazing Outreach Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extension and Becky Brathal, Regional Crops/Soils Educator. Prices are reported for alfalfa hay and grass hay. Alfalfa hay may include alfalfa/grass mix.

All values are compiled from public and private quality tested sales through Wisconsin and the Midwest and reported on the first and third weeks of each month. All prices are reported on an as-fed basis, and not on a dry matter basis.

Previous hay reports are archived here. There will not be a Hay Report for August 6th, 2024 or November 12th, 2024.

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Note about the values:

Where the table is blank, no sales were reported. In some cases, only sale averages were reported and min/max values were not included. All values in the table represent the average of all values reported; i.e., “maximum” is the average of all maximum values reported, “minimum” is the average of all minimum values reported, and “average” is the average of all average values reported. So, the “average” in the table is often not the mathematical average of the range in the table.

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