Jack Harrison, the owner of the Callaway Livestock Center in Kingdom City, Missouri, tells Brownfield the reason is outstanding prices and short hay supplies.
“About every week our cow numbers have been double what they’ve been one year ago,” he says. “Feeder numbers are about 20% higher than they were one year ago and people are selling fall calves early saving all of the feed they can for cows.”
He says central Missouri received up to 1.5 inches of rain in the last week, which is helping green up the ground, but it won’t replace the grass growth that’s been lost in the drought.
