02/19/11, 02:21 AM
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She who waits....
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East of Bryan, Texas
Posts: 6,796
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Around $2 a pound here.
Expect them to go up even more. The Nutritionalist at our Co-Op just told us that due to the wipe out of crops in Mexico, poor corn crops due to not rotating (planting corn a year after you have planted corn) , as well as the fact that a lot of fields are going to cotton instead....that we can expect to be paying about 40% more for feed in the fall as we do now...and it will only be that low IF South America has a decent soybean crop.
He told us at our last Goat Club meeting that right this second, we are at rock bottom on corn....we have JUST enough, nationwide and worldwide, to keep it moving through the system...but not a single kernal more. All of the reserves are *gone*.
Even if you don't feed corn yourself, a shortage of the most prevalent energy source in feed is going to adversely effect the pricing of every other feed energy source. (Feed being divided up into three types, energy, which is carbs, protein, and fat. ) I got a quick education in pricing...the prices of EVERYTHING, energy-wise, is marked by corn. Oats aren't priced as oats....oats are priced at X much below corn on the board. Milo is X much below corn. So if corn goes up, everything else does too.
I am praying that South America has an EXCELLENT soybean harvest, since both ours and Asia's was pretty bad.
Meat animals are going for high prices, because ranchers are looking to buy now, finish them up while they can still get cheap feed, then sell them when prices are through the roof. If you think $2.00 lb (which is what it is here, also) is expensive, just wait until July.
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Peace,
Caliann
"First, Show me in the Bible where it says you can save someone's soul by annoying the hell out of them." -- Chuck
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