Big Bird
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Feed prices
How high are they going this year? Someone just whispered in my ear 'feed wheat close to £200 for early 2008'!
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2/7/2007, 20:52
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Buze77
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not sure if this helps but I run a dairy with a purchase feed operation.
Corn Silage is running about $40 a ton delivered.
Haylage is running about $30-$40 a ton for 18%+protein with good energy and digestibility.
Dry hay is running about $120 a ton for 18%+ protein rfv at 100+.
grain mix still up $40-$60 more then 2 years ago. $200-$240 a ton depending what type of ration you are feeding.
The corn market has softened a little bit recently in the states as the the corn crop looks decent in the midwest and the ethanol plants are not all up a running yet.
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3/7/2007, 1:44
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JoulesH
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Feed prices
If the weather doesn't improve then it's going to be a difficult winter with forage as well as concentrates through the roof. Can't get anywhere near our land with machinery at present to cut forage.
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4/7/2007, 10:48
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Re: Feed prices
Bought some beet pulp and dark grains last week to buffer.Beet pulp £151 Dark Grains £131 and its not near winter!! But our haulage costs are high as we are 130 miles from glasgow no back loads, just one benefits of living on a peninsula!!!
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5/7/2007, 17:28
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FiringOnAllFour
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Re: Feed prices
US Gluten and Distillers banned this week. Once the stocks in the mills have gone, thats it.
I wonder when the EU is going to grow up.
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5/7/2007, 20:53
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Will Richardson
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Re: Feed prices
So the second generation GM maize and soya aint coming in .. that was predicted 2months back by my feed rep .. this also has consequences for the supermarkets
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5/7/2007, 22:35
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ben warren
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Re: Feed prices
Britains largest dairy compounder isn't taking on any new customers and won't give contracted prices to existing one's because they don't have the raw materials and don't know what they'll cost.
Rotterdam commodities market temporarily shut because they don't have enough product to sell, which is unpresidented.
And apparently there is so much AN fertiliser bought by Iran that there is unlikely to be enough even to honour some existing deals for the coming season.
Could be a fun time ahead.
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18/7/2007, 19:14
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FiringOnAllFour
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Re: Feed prices
The laugh about the GM maize is that it is passed for human consumption, but not for animals! Time we were out of Europe and got a capitalist government back in.
I know a local merchant who received a credit note in the post this week for stuff he had bought and paid for at the docks. The excuse was 'force majure'.
Citrus pulp has gone, soya is up, despite a bumper crop in waiting.
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18/7/2007, 20:19
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