Price of feed in your area?

[4nTN]

I just paid $56.38 for 200 lbs of feed for my chickens!!!

100 lbs of layer pellets.
100 lbs of scratch.

This was from our local Co-op!

up $4.00 from the last time I bought feed less than 4 weeks ago!

It`s crazy! I know there`s been a drought.But NOT in this neck of the woods.The corn is high and plentiful from what I can see.


How much are some of you paying?

[MichaelK!]

Months ago I bought several hundred pounds of wheat at our feedstore. Price was 15$ per 50lb bag.

Price last week had dropped to 11$ per bag.

Oh well.

[||Downhome||]

bought 300 lbs of corn for 51.50 yesterday.

That up four per hundred from a couple month ago and they said expect it to go higher.

[rambler]

Corn was exprected to dip down to $4.00 this fall way back last January.... At that time corn was in the $5-6 range.

With the drought it is hovering at the $8.00 price right now.

Most feed companies buy/order/cpntract their corn ahead of time, at prices that appear to be a good buy at the time. They try to hit good bargins as best they can....

I fear many feed companies were waiting for the 'low prices' we all were expecting this fall, and did not buy much $5-6 corn ahead of time.

Now they are being hit with $8 corn prices, and fears it may go a bit higher.

If any of your feed stores bought a lot ahead at $5, they will either be able to sell you cheaper feed; or they will be selling at the same price as the feed stores that haven't bought anything ahead of time and will be making money hand over fist this fall!

The drought isn't making a terrible shortage of feed, but it has really, really messed up typical buying patterns and price patterns of buy low at harvest, sell high in mid spring. It has really messed up some feed stores that guessed wrong.

As a farmer, I sold some corn last winter for $5, it is yet to be harvested. But it's already sold. Looking back, that sure was a mistake. But, I only sold 10% that way. I have some more I sold for $7.75 a little while ago - again I have yet to harvest that corn, but it is already 'sold'. I'm waiting to see if we go higher, or drop down a bit - I think we may drop down a little bit, but should stay over $7 anyhow.

All together, I should average a pretty good price for my corn, even with the $5 contract thrown in there. With the record amount of corn planted this spring, that looked like a good price at the time, corn coulda falled a lot lower from there....

So, whomever bought that $5 corn from me is sitting good now. Hopefully it was your feed store, and thay are passing the savings on to you.

--->Paul

[rambler]

Originally Posted by MichaelK!

Months ago I bought several hundred pounds of wheat at our feedstore. Price was 15$ per 50lb bag.

Price last week had dropped to 11$ per bag.

Oh well.

Wheat is typically havested from late June through August, and is typically cheapest then as everyone iwll have piles of it sitting around. In a tough year, wheat will cost most before harvest, as everyone has used most of it up and is unsure of what harvest will bring.

You kinda bought at the worst possible time for these crop conditions in wheat.....

--->Paul

[thequeensblessing]

We bought 1000 lbs of sheep feed from our local feed mill (they buy local corn and soybeans and grind and mix their own) about 4 months ago at 192 dollars. I bought the same amount, 1000 lbs, 2 weeks ago, and it was up to $232.

[DamnearaFarm]

Bought my 22% layer pellet on 7/31 for 11.95 a bag. Bought the same feed on 8/15 for 14.25 a bag. That's for 50 lbs.

[arabian knight]

Originally Posted by ||Downhome||

bought 300 lbs of corn for 51.50 yesterday.

That up four per hundred from a couple month ago and they said expect it to go higher.

Ya that is about what we are around here. A friend of mine just bought 100#'s of corn to feed the deer, and it was $18.56 a hundred.
Now I just looked at what I paid for corn a few years ago and it was $12.75 for a hundred pounds.

[4nTN]

it`s getting to the point........

(I always sing that phrase to CSN&Y`s Suite Judy Blue Eyes)

anyway


where I`m going to have to sell all but a few of my laying hens.You can`t make that much money selling eggs.

I`d be spending even more on feed if they were not being supplemented with scrapes from my food vending business.

[Tom in TN]

I don't do chickens so I don't have any idea about the price of chicken feed, but I do feed cattle.

12% feed at the Maury County Farmer's Co-Op is now $320.00 per ton. There has been a constant increase in price for the past 5 or 6 years. It usually goes up about $5.00 every couple of months.

Cattle prices went way up last fall/winter and have now tanked again. One of the calves that I sold last week was a really nice all-black bull calf. It sold for less than $1.00 a pound. I'm going to sell some more calves next week. If the prices are still so low, I'm going to give serious thought to selling off the herd a little at a time and get out completely within a year.

Tom in TN

[Danaus29]

$14.99/50 lb Manna Pro rabbit feed last week. Price is expected to go up. My supplier said all the other feeds had already gone up.

[Cindy in PA]

I get from a local farmer that uses Fertrell Minerals & is transitional organic. 80lbs. of 17% LAYER WAS $27 6 weeks ago & $30 last week. He rarely increases his prices. That 80 lbs. lasts my 14 chickens about 5-6 weeks. Luckily they just started laying this weekend. I just bought my 3rd dozen brown eggs for $2.29. May still get rid of the rooster, but would feel bad if TSHTF and I didn't have one.

[7thswan]

There was drought in many parts of the world. Very bad in Russia,they even had millions acres of wild fires.

[a'ightthen]

$15.49 this morning for 50 lbs of layer pellets at TS ( Purina was over $17). Told the guy that it was too much ... he said that it is to go higher. He asked if they were laying ... told him not THAT much.

He said that most folks had reported that their hens were not laying and asked what I intended to do.

Then he seemed shocked when I said that I was going to eat them. Told him that they would produce one way or another. He laughed .... I made plans

[HeelSpur]

Paid $16.75 for layer crumble the other day, 50lbs.

[airotciv]

Just paid $14.25 per bag of layer pellets and $17.99 per bag of cracked corn. Both have gone up $2.00 per bag in the last month. Haven't had to buy Goat food in a few months, can't wait to see how much it has gone up.

[gunsmithgirl]

I buy only certified organic feeds but I pay 18.50 for a 50 lb bag of layer or grower.
19.00 per 50 lb bag of goat feed and 10.00 for 50 lbs of oats.
The horse also gets safechoice from a non-organic feed dealer for 17.00 per 50 lb bag.

[julieq]

175.00 per ton, delivered pure alfalfa hay (got first cutting, waiting for second cutting next month at the same price).

Layer crumble 19.00 50 lbs.
Three way sweet feed for the goats 10.99 40 lbs.

[sammyd]

meat maker for the chickens was 34/100 at Fleet and 28.50/100 at the mill last week

[rambler]

Originally Posted by 7thswan

There was drought in many parts of the world. Very bad in Russia,they even had millions acres of wild fires.

I was just reading that on another discussion site, the southern breadbasket of Europe started harvest, maybe 50% done, and he was saying 20-50% less yield than normal there too. Seemed the biggest 2 grain countries were down 25-30% on yields.

Everyone is going to watch USA harvest, and then look to see what Brazil and Argentina look like in January, as they start their harvests in February or so.

Lot of roller coaster left on these grain prices, in both directions.

Thanks for mentioning that, 7th. Hasn't been talked about too much in the ag world yet.

--->Paul