# Coping with high feed prices, drought in 2022
						 | The Cattle Site

> Drought and high grain and forage prices are raising annual cow costs for US producers in 2022. Nebraska precipitation outlooks lean below normal, with temperatures likely above normal. Beef cow inventory is declining, which is expected to lift feeder cattle prices into 2025.

- Date: 2022-08-09 · published 2022-08-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/40182-coping-with-high-feed-prices-drought-in-2022-the-cattle-site
- Commodities: [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Drought-driven feed and forage costs squeeze cow-calf margins and can accelerate herd liquidation. Smaller future feeder supplies support higher feeder cattle prices.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲
- FCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FCATTLE | 2021-11-10 | [The Cycle of Drought, Cowherd Liquidation and Higher Feeder Cattle Prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/44208-the-cycle-of-drought-cowherd-liquidation-and-higher-feeder-cattle-prices.md) | -1.4% | +3.5% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-01-01 | [Feeder cattle market: Prices ending 2024 on higher note](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27086-feeder-cattle-market-prices-ending-2024-on-higher-note.md) | +1.0% | +7.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-10-30 | [The source of high cattle and beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22522-the-source-of-high-cattle-and-beef-prices.md) | -6.4% | -9.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2021-08-18 | [US drought could have implications for beef exports
						 \| The Cattle Site](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45518-us-drought-could-have-implications-for-beef-exports-the-cattle-site.md) | +1.3% | -1.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2023-02-03 | [CattleFax Forecasts Producer Profitability in 2023 with Potential Drought Relief for the West](https://feedsoft.ai/events/37485-cattlefax-forecasts-producer-profitability-in-2023-with-potential-drought.md) | +0.5% | +2.2% |
| CORN | 2022-05-01 | [Brazil’s Drought: The Trigger that Could Take Corn Prices Higher?](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13731-brazil-s-drought-the-trigger-that-could-take-corn-prices-higher.md) | -8.1% | -2.4% |
| CORN | 2021-10-18 | [Higher feed prices this winter](https://feedsoft.ai/events/44681-higher-feed-prices-this-winter.md) | +1.5% | +13.0% |
| CORN | 2018-08-09 | [European drought pushing biofuel feedstock prices higher  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63536-european-drought-pushing-biofuel-feedstock-prices-higher-the-daily-digest.md) | -8.4% | -9.8% |

## Sources

- thecattlesite.com: https://www.thecattlesite.com/articles/4650/coping-with-high-feed-prices-drought-in-2022

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