Big Bird
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Re: Feed prices
No Mag currently available in the UK to make dry cow mins.
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20/2/2008, 12:28
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Jeash
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Re: Feed prices
$90 is cheap, it is selling for 150/ton around here. I was told that there was so much wheat planted in the US that they ran out of seed this fall.
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20/2/2008, 20:58
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classcow
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not sure if they ran out, but I do know it was really hard to get relatively early in the year. All that wheat planted and it is still going up and up. Of course corn and beans are following as well as hay. I am not sure how farms who purchase a lot of feed are going to make it in the US this year.
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21/2/2008, 2:01
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foxleigh
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after running in the mid $400s plus gst thru spring we are now paying $480/t for the dairy mix plus an extra $22 for the agrilig and then gst .we did drop the rumensin and supalac out replacing it with the agrilig - the test has risen again ,milk is up as is intake..... too many cows didnt like the taste of the supalac.
still ...over $500 is a hefty price for grain mix
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27/2/2008, 6:02
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Re: Feed prices
Cash croppers have more options than they once did. Cattle feed is competing with refineries, and will only get worse.
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27/2/2008, 13:17
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Jeash
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Re: Feed prices
Classcow, I agree. I think that the feed prices will really limit expansion this year. I have a friend whose family milks 9,000 head in Arizona. In December he said that their break even was pushing $20 and they grow half their feed.
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28/2/2008, 20:38
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nutritionist called in today to tell us they had just paid $522/t for a load of wheat and we should brace ourselves for when we order the next load
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18/3/2008, 12:01
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Big Bird
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Re: Feed prices
Southampton power station has outbid feed merchants for palm kernel and is burning it by the boatload. Similar situation at Avonmouth with oatmeal and biscuitmeal.
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16/4/2008, 17:41
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hamish26
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Re: Feed prices
I have been quoted winter prices for wheat today at £158 tonne, looks like cereals prices are on the slowdown now.
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23/4/2008, 21:57
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