Wyoming Hay Summary

Week ending May 11, 2018

    Compared to last week of alfalfa hay sold steady on a light test.  Demand 
was very good from local customers and from out of state buyers. According to 
the NASS Crop Progress and Condition report May 06, 2018, Wyoming experienced 
above normal temperatures for the week, according to the Mountain Regional Field 
Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Twenty of the 34 
reporting stations reported above average temperatures for the week with the 
high temperature of 82 degrees recorded at Kaycee and a low of 19 degrees at 
Yellowstone. Above normal moisture was reported at 18 of the 34 reporting 
stations with one station (Evanston) reporting no precipitation. Buford reported 
the most moisture with 2.28 inches. A reporter from Northwestern Wyoming 
indicated that barley planting is well underway, sugarbeet planting is just 
getting started, and corn planting will begin soon. A reporter from Western 
Wyoming stated that by the end of the week most producers were in the field and 
ranchers were starting to turn their livestock out on to spring rangeland. A 
reporter from Southeastern Wyoming reported that April precipitation is less 
than half of normal, irrigation storage is about half of normal, and range 
conditions are drying out quickly. Hay and roughage supplies for Wyoming were 
rated 15 percent very short, 24 percent short, 46 percent adequate, and 15 
percent surplus. Irrigation water supply across Wyoming was rated 2 percent 
poor, 9 percent fair, and 89 percent good. Stock water supplies across Wyoming 
were rated 1 percent very short, 13 percent short, and 86 percent adequate. All 
prices are dollars per ton FOB the field or hay barn unless otherwise noted. 
Prices are from the most recent reported sales. 

Eastern Wyoming 
Alfalfa: Fair large squares 170.00.  Utility large squares bales (top bales) 
100.00.  
Sun-cured alfalfa pellets 15 percent protein 235.00.  
Alfalfa/Grass: Good round bales 160.00.
   
Central and Western Wyoming
Certified weed seed free alfalfa cubes 230.00-260.00.