Monthly dairy cull cow market trends downward in early 2024.

Monthly dairy cull cow marketing is the highest since August 2023.

A smaller milking herd, tight replacement heifer supplies to keep barns full and slight improvements in milk income margins contributed to a slowdown in dairy culls marketed for beef to end 2023. That trend has continued to start 2024.

Tightening cow and heifer numbers pushed average prices for U.S. replacement dairy cows to a nine-year high in January, according to latest USDA quarterly estimates.

Here’s an update on economic factors impacting your dairy profitability during the third week of January 2024.

Here’s an update on economic factors impacting your dairy profitability during the first week of January 2024.

Dairy cull cow marketing trailed year-ago levels for 14 consecutive weeks.

Here’s an update on news impacting your dairy during the week before Christmas 2023.

Here’s an update on economic factors impacting your dairy finances as the calendar turns to December 2023.