Hay stocks on Wyoming farms and ranches as of May 1, 2024, totaled 515,000 tons, an increase of 171 percent from stocks of 190,000 tons on hand last year, according to the May 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Hay production for 2023 totaled 2.55 million tons, 6 percent higher than production in 2022. Disappearance from December 1, 2023 – May 1, 2024, was 975,000 tons, compared with 1.11 million tons during the same period a year earlier.