Agriculture/Agribusiness Corn prices — southern Minnesota 2012
2011
$8.00
Soybean prices — southern Minnesota
(dollars per bushel) $7.40
$16.00
$6.00
$12.00
$4.00
$8.00
$5.57
$2.00 $0
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
$0
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
$20.00
$80.00
$18.00
$70.00
$16.00
$81.31 M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
$22.50
$22.00
$90.00
F
Minimum prices, class I milk Dollars per hundredweight
2012
2011
$24.00
$85.65
$100.00
Source: USDA
F
Milk prices
185 pound carcass, negotiated price, weighted average
2012
2011
J
J
Source: USDA
Iowa-Minnesota hog prices $110.00
$10.58
$4.00
Source: USDA
$60.00
2012
2011
$20.00
(dollars per bushel) $14.21
D
$14.00
$20.25
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Source: USDA. Based on federal milk orders.
Corn and soybean prices are for rail delivery points in Southern Minnesota. Milk prices are for Upper Midwest points.
J. Malmanger
MN Valley Business • jANUARY 2013 • 13