Compared to last month, minor adjustments are made to the 2025 and 2026 production forecasts, with no major changes to industry fundamentals. The changes center on updates from current slaughter data, reducing expected cow slaughter, temporal changes to fed cattle marketings and lifting anticipated carcass weights.

The June Feed Outlook report shows corn ending stocks for 2024-25 are lowered as export outlook strengthens. Ahead of the end of June USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Grain Stocks report and Acreage reports, limited changes to the 2024-25 and 2025-26 balance sheets are described in the mid-June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report.

If you have tuned into the news recently, you may have noticed that the road has gotten a little bumpy.

I have a bad habit of temporarily leaving something (mineral tubs, tractors, fencing equipment, grain totes, etc.) sitting in front of the house with the pure intention of putting it in its proper place tomorrow. Sometimes, however, tomorrow doesn’t arrive for quite a while.

Consider a few animal management strategies to mitigate the effects of drought.

The only way to truly know the nutrient content of hay is to submit a sample to a forage testing lab and have it analyzed. This information can assist you in making feeding decisions for various stages of production and potentially marketing your hay at a greater price.