This report is a compilation of a number of other reports and covers South Dakota livestock, hay, grain, and ethanol co-products. Livestock prices are listed by species, grade, sex, and weight. Hay prices are listed by grade, rain prices by variety, and ethanol prices by co-product. All categories contain the current week's prices and the prior year's prices with grain also containing the prior week's prices. Also included is an analysis on recent market trends.
Distillers grains or corn gluten feed are co-products created during the production of ethanol, and can be used as feed for livestock. NASS collaborated with the Nebraska Corn Development, Utilization & Marketing Board, an agency of the State of Nebraska, to conduct a survey of livestock producers in 12 Midwestern States to determine current usage of distillers grains, essential feed characteristics and concerns keeping producers from using distillers grains. The probability based survey ...