Cheap corn

[aj]

This may not be the best topic on a show cattle page but I was wondering. How could the cow calf guy benefit from cheap corn of present. Maybe creep feed corn or back grounding or even retained ownership. I have no idea of what the cost of gain is in the feedlot. I doubt that the show feed will get cheaper......but maybe it would.

 

[oakview]

A little cheap corn in the ration can help soften the extremely high hay prices we have here.  $7 corn doesn't work that well, but $3 corn pencils out a little better when reasonably decent hay costs in excess of $100/bale.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Wow oakview!  That hurts. What’s the average weight of those bales? 

 

[Buck]

I don't keep up with the corn market like a grain farmer but all I have been hearing about is the lack of corn acres in the Midwest due to last years floods and how corn is going to be high. I know it has affected the price of feed in our area (Southeast). Even commodity feeds have gone up and the reason we are given is the short corn crop projections. So, I don't understand "cheap corn". I'm getting mixed messages!

 

[aj]

5.3 cents per pound on whole corn here in Goodland Ks.

 

[beebe]

Last year I bought non GMO ear corn for .0525 cents per pound and decent hay at .06 per pound.  I am a grass fed producer so animals being finished did not get any corn but the cows did.