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Not picking on you but your post seems to be fairly typical of this thread.
With feed prices like these for economy's sake think about this-
Eliminate feed wasteage.
Quit feeding scratch - at these prices the cost of the units of nutrition is much, much higher than the complete feed. Even the lower end feeds like Dumor. Cracked corn makes even less sense.
The real nutriative value for chickens in sunflower seed is in the oil. Want to save money on that stuff? Buy sunflower oil at the store and sprinkle a little on the feed. Same results nutrition wise and it wil cost less.
Do not over feed the protein. For example- high protein gamebird or turkey feed for chickens just increases the cost of production or maintaniance with very little to show for it.
At the moment ot this writing corn delivered to terminals in western Ohio is trading at $6.88 to $7.02 per bushel. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds. So fifty pounds of corn is from $6.14 to $6.27 Corn is priced quite high and soybeans are fairly high at this time. But there is a surplus of soybean meal (the high protein part left after the oil is removed from the bean and used in feed). In fact they have it piled outside around here because there is so much of it. The demand for the oil from the beans is huge, that is what is running up the price of the raw beans.
Corn prices- well I think the corn to ethanol thing is almost entirely wrong. But that is not what is running up the price of corn. There is some drougth influence around the globe but the big thing is that as the rest of the world gets their hands on more money for all the stuff we buy from them they are entering the market for more and more and higher end foods.
Not picking on you but your post seems to be fairly typical of this thread.
With feed prices like these for economy's sake think about this-
Eliminate feed wasteage.
Quit feeding scratch - at these prices the cost of the units of nutrition is much, much higher than the complete feed. Even the lower end feeds like Dumor. Cracked corn makes even less sense.
The real nutriative value for chickens in sunflower seed is in the oil. Want to save money on that stuff? Buy sunflower oil at the store and sprinkle a little on the feed. Same results nutrition wise and it wil cost less.
Do not over feed the protein. For example- high protein gamebird or turkey feed for chickens just increases the cost of production or maintaniance with very little to show for it.
At the moment ot this writing corn delivered to terminals in western Ohio is trading at $6.88 to $7.02 per bushel. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds. So fifty pounds of corn is from $6.14 to $6.27 Corn is priced quite high and soybeans are fairly high at this time. But there is a surplus of soybean meal (the high protein part left after the oil is removed from the bean and used in feed). In fact they have it piled outside around here because there is so much of it. The demand for the oil from the beans is huge, that is what is running up the price of the raw beans.
Corn prices- well I think the corn to ethanol thing is almost entirely wrong. But that is not what is running up the price of corn. There is some drougth influence around the globe but the big thing is that as the rest of the world gets their hands on more money for all the stuff we buy from them they are entering the market for more and more and higher end foods.
