Corn Price

Plow Boy · #1 06/29/07, 09:27 PM

Has any one noticed the price of feed going up in cost with the corn prices going up. Just wondering how high it will go before the small homesteader can't afford to feed a couple steers out for butcher.

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Christiaan · #2 06/30/07, 12:32 AM

Our feed mill has been able to hold the price on corn so far, and just yesterday they said that it looked like the price had peaked and was beginning to drop. So I can still afford my chickens, wouldn't think of feeding grain to the cattle. They like grass and hay.

RosewoodfarmVA · #3 06/30/07, 07:41 PM

Not fattening them with corn solves that problem! We just make sure ours get the best pasture before butchering.

genebo · #4 07/01/07, 09:16 AM

Whole kernel corn is still the cheapest "teaser" feed I can get to bring the cattle to the feed trough. I like to handle them every day as I feed them loose minerals. It gives me a chance to examine them daily and helps make pets of them.

I buy corn in bulk. It was $4.80 a bushel when I bought in early May. Last year it was $2.80.

If all you other people would stop driving your cars then the ethanol producers wouldn't buy so much corn and the price would come back down. How about it, people. Stay home?

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RedHogs · #5 07/01/07, 12:59 PM

Corn is down 15% on the year and has 6 months futures down another 10%....If It wasn't for flooding and drought in various areas I think we would have seen a greater decrease. My feed is 8.30 a hundred for a 14% base mix, try gettting away from whole corn till the price stabalizes.

ksfarmer · #6 07/02/07, 09:29 AM

Thats why the price of beef in the store goes up. Cost to produce a pound of beef is going up.

LMonty · #7 07/02/07, 01:53 PM

$5.65, IIRC; for 50 lbs in the feed store in NW AR Saturday.

francismilker · #8 07/02/07, 02:46 PM

I'd still rather go to the feed mill and buy a few bags of it than stand behind a horse and plow all day trying to grow my own. I know it has to go up on the basis of supply and demand. It just seems we've got by a little longer on corn than we did gasoline and other products. When the people of this great country we live in will pay $1.25 for a 20 oz. bottle of so-called "natural spring water" and then gripe about paying more for other products, we're putting the cart before the horse!
On another note, I too hate to see the price of our feed base (corn) going up. It's $6.75 a bag at my feed store.