According to South Dakota State University Extension Risk and Business Management Specialist Matthew Diersen, cheap corn resulted in cattle being fed longer or to heavier weights. “We’ve got higher slaughter weights that we don’t normally get in January, February, March.” Diersen said there is a chance that cattle will continue to be fed to unseasonably higher weights for a while. “There’s an incentive for feedlots to feed cattle a little bit longer or get as many pounds on them as they can.”