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July 2026 07/02/26 3:48:00 PM
7-2-2026
Hot and humid across the area this week. It is great corn growing weather and spending time at the pool! The corn has really responded well here with plenty of moisture and now the heat has it growing at a very rapid pace. The humidity has been 60 to 90%, making it brutal to bale dry hay very well. The grass hay that is plenty ripe is going up okay, but second crop lush alfalfa has been slow to come around. We round baled some that took a week to get dry. Hopefully we can square bale some that has only been down four days! The forecast looks hot until the weekend. Rain chance Friday night into Saturday, then cooler temperatures going towards next week.
Saturday had a couple hundred hogs selling at a steady market. The fat hogs ranged from $64 to 74 cwt. 26 head of 64-pound pigs brought $76 per head and 11 head of 79-pound pigs were at $101 per head. Sows ranged from $43 to 48 per cwt.
The sheep and goat sale had 480 head of all classes. Seven young Katahdin ewes with young lambs brought $135 count noses. The ewes bred to lamb this summer brought from $235 to 240 per head and weighed 85 pounds. Light lambs topped at $3.50 to 3.60 a pound. 42 head of fancy white face lambs weigh 117 pounds brought $2.87 a pound. Goats from 40 to 60 pounds hit $4.00 a pound. There were multiple groups up to $4.70 a pound. Cull nannies were from $2.10 to 2.50 a pound and billies brought $2.20 to 2.90 a pound.
The hay market was mostly $4 to 5 on the small squares and round bales brought $40 to 67.50 a bale. Hay demand is sure solid here in the summer. It appears some buyers are just feeding it now while others are putting it away to have for the winter. There is a lot of hay being baled again this week so it will be interesting to see how the market responds over the next month. A big run of misc. items again this week. Lots of panels, gates, a few posts, creep feeder and a big cargo trailer of new merchandise of all kinds made for a busy outside sale.
The cattle sale had a few bred cows and pairs as well as 150 weigh up cows. Baby calves topped $1700, most sold from $1400 to 1600. The top pairs were two Hereford 6-year-old cows with fancy spring calves at side for $5550. Three aged pairs with younger calves brought $4200. Fall bred cows running 4 to 8 years old sold from $3600 to 4350. A five head group of third period younger black cows sold at $4500. The aged ball calving cows sold at $3400. Weigh cows sold steady with cows going home at $2.00 to 3.15 a pound. Slaughter cows topped at $1.97 a pound. Bulls were mostly from $2.20 to 2.50 a pound this week.
The Gabe Hirst celebration of life was attended by over 400 people from the Midwest. Family, friends, co workers and some of his classmates spent the evening sharing stories and remembering his time here. It was a tribute to him to see so many people come to honor his memory. Gabe was a one-of-a-kind man that will be remembered for a very long time!
Becky and I attended the Jefferson Co 4-H and FFA sale held Monday evening in Fairfield. Kids don’t bring the livestock to the ring anymore; they only sell the ribbons and only go through one time. It looks like the numbers are up and the fair was good this year. Congratulations on the good fair and sale. Multiple fairs are coming right up in the next month. Step out and support those kids as they are the future of our American Agriculture!
NO livestock sale this week, (vet services refused to work!)So, we will sale hay, straw and misc. items at 11.
Be safe and enjoy the celebration of 250 years!
Have a dandy week!
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