Two years of drought have severely depleted U.S. hay shares. The not too long ago launched December 1 hay shares from USDA confirmed complete shares of 71.9 million tons, 16.4 % under the earlier ten-year common and the bottom December 1 shares on report within the information again to 1973 (Desk 1).
Every of the highest ten states for hay shares was down in comparison with the ten-year common and collectively had been down 20.8 % from the 2012-2021 common December 1 shares stage (Desk 1). The biggest hay shares on December 1 had been in Texas, 25.8 % under the ten-year common for the state. Different prime ten states had been down from the ten-year common starting from Tennessee, down 10.9 %, to Oklahoma, down 32.7 % (Desk 1).
Desk 1. December 1 Hay Shares, All Hay, Alfalfa Hay, and Different Hay Manufacturing,
High Ten States and U.S., 2022 and 2012-2021 Common.
Desk 1 additionally presents 2022 manufacturing of All Hay, Alfalfa Hay, and Different Hay for the U.S. and the top-ten states of every hay class. All hay manufacturing in 2022 was down 12.4 % from the earlier ten-year common, with alfalfa hay down 13.2 % and different hay down 11.9 %. Hay manufacturing in 2022 was the bottom on report in information that started in 1974.
Complete hay manufacturing within the prime ten states mixed represents 43 % of U.S. complete hay manufacturing and was down 18.7 % in comparison with the ten-year common for these states. The highest ten hay manufacturing states embody eight of the highest ten beef cow states together with the primary dairy cow state, California and the quantity three dairy cow state, Idaho.
The highest ten state lists for alfalfa and different hay manufacturing signifies that alfalfa hay tends to be extra necessary within the northern half of the nation, together with California and Arizona, whereas different hay manufacturing is extra necessary within the central and southern plains, mid-south and japanese seaboard. Kansas and Nebraska are the one two states that function within the prime ten lists for each alfalfa and different hay manufacturing.
Decreased December 1 hay shares implies that the cattle trade may face further liquidation this winter and is especially susceptible to extreme winter climate within the subsequent couple of months. The December storm already can have taken a piece out of the reported December 1 hay shares. New forage manufacturing is a number of months away within the south and even farther away in northern areas.
