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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Re: Feed prices
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How high are they going this year? Someone just whispered in my ear 'feed wheat close to £200 for early 2008'!
Feed wheat up £6/tonne this morning, now over £160/tonne for September and rising. Hope you all bought dairy feed forward till end of April 08 at a fixed price. On todays prices dairy cake would be around £185-£195/tonne , fortunately bought early here at a good price.
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28/8/2007, 17:58
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read in the paper that the world has a shortfall of 7 million tons of wheat this year.
those growing it here can expect to get at least 300 a ton.Our grain mix is currently $372 pus gst and our heifer ration is about 12 a ton cheaper.
I saw new seasons rolls of hayllege advertised at $283/t and I know of several farmers who are about to rolll their grain crops up or graze them because currently we have NO soil moisture.I would say a lot of farmers are starting to panic
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28/8/2007, 21:40
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Re: Feed prices
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How high are they going this year? Someone just whispered in my ear 'feed wheat close to £200 for early 2008'!
Wheat futures market £197.50/tonne for november 2007 at lunchtime today .. thats about £191 ex-farm
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5/9/2007, 19:28
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Re: Feed prices
A friend sold wheat at £187/ton and barley at £171/ton yesterday...
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6/9/2007, 6:53
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Re: Feed prices
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Feed wheat up £6/tonne this morning, now over £160/tonne for September and rising. Hope you all bought dairy feed forward till end of April 08 at a fixed price. On todays prices dairy cake would be around £185-£195/tonne , fortunately bought early here at a good price.
Two questions, Will.
Do you think your merchant can afford to honour the price you've bought at?
Could you afford to sue them if they didn't honour it?
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6/9/2007, 7:57
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Two questions, Will.
Do you think your merchant can afford to honour the price you've bought at?
Could you afford to sue them if they didn't honour it?
Yes .. there was one hell of a lot of wheat sold forward at sub £100/t it looked a good deal at the time for a lot of arable farmers and as the feed price forms part of the contract I would say they are legally obliged to honour it
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6/9/2007, 11:23
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Re: Feed prices
I hear maize grain imported from Brazil is now cheaper than home produced wheat!
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6/9/2007, 12:36
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Feed prices
wheat for humans now 407/t
feed barley now 370/t
stockfeed manufactorer says price to be over $A400/t by months end
drizzling as we speak!
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9/9/2007, 21:16
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Re: Feed prices
World wheat stocks are apparently at their lowest since the late 1940's when rationing was still in place from the war.
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14/2/2008, 21:29
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Hear that minerals are going to rocket as well soon. Huge shortage of phos
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20/2/2008, 11:53
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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