Rangergord
Songster
Yes it clearly is a situation of ebbs and flows according to harvests and consumption. It’s not always smooth and trouble free as soybeans and even corn indicate. It also does not count what grain farmers and grain consumers might stockpile. I have sometimes thought that because I live in a grain producing area, that maybe feed supplies are a bit more secure here. But what if the farmer is living on credit? He would have to sell grain in the short term to pay debts. The grain would flow to world markets and be gone.Thank you.
So is this actually a measurement of how much grain is in storage from previous years, measured when the new crop of grain gets harvested this year? That's not nearly as scary as what I thought it meant.
As poultry keepers if we can rationalize consumption of grain and afford to keep a small store of grain then together we add to the overall resilience. Same with a grain farmer who lives within his means can store grain harvests and sell when it suits them.