Feed prices

[saladin]

Corn and soy dropped this week. I'd expect price to drop at the mill this week or next. Corn finished at around 6.30 or so; it's expected to drop more next week.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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The European Financial crisis is weighing heavily on crop prices right now. The Fundamentals are very Bullish, yields are variable and the weather is not cooperating in many parts of the cornbelt to finish this crop. One advisor told me that this Monday the markets could move Limit UP or Limit DOWN, no one has a clue what will happen.

 

[Chris09]

I was looking at some old feed receipts and was comparing prices and I am only paying about a dollar more now then I did 4 years ago on a hundred pounds of Corn and about the same on a hundred pounds Oats. Now about 75% of the Oats that my mill uses is local grown and the other 25% is railed in from Canada.

Chris

 

[Tiss]

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I recently started a post about the same thing! $14.49 for layer pellets seems outrageous. I'm going to price the local feed stores this week. I almost feel like I could feed the chickens what the family eats for less money!

 

[Fred's Hens]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

Fred's Hens :

.........What I recommend everyone try to find, if they possibly can, is a true local mill. A place that has local sources of corn and soybeans (the two pricey and main ingredients) that mill or grind the feed, right on the spot, and sacks it in non-descript mill bags. These places add all the quality ingredients: minerals, vita-pak, calcium, etc, and often sell for $5 a 50# less than a TSC can sell you a "brand name" feed. How? Simple really. Far less hands in the profit chain, plain packaging, and no trucking costs.......

Watch what the local mills use and compare everything they add with the others.

In the case of the feed we use the local mill does not include a source of prebiotics, essential oils, or organic selenium. If the feed mills is using quality additives and formulating to amino acid and available phosphorus content then the feed should be a good one.

Jim​

Agree. I am fortunate that one of our local mills is a Hubbard mill and the other is a Kalmbach. The product is very good quality and the birds are doing very well on it.​

 

[Arielle]

I have the benefit of talking to the local mill owner occassionally; like every time I get a grain delivery. He prefers to drive a truck. We dish about grain costs.

The corn he buys is expensive because it is tested for molds; and even though he buys by the train car load, the whole corn prices have been jumping UP over the last 12 months. Prices last week showed no up or down; but I did call and confirm delivery charges have again increased. THe deliv charges are built into my per bag prices. Overall, in about 4 years the prices have moved from $7.50 to $12.50 per 50 # and this is before the winter increase. Last winter prices were over $13.50. OUCH!