The feedstuffs board.
The nutrient-cost screening board: every feedstuff ranked by what it actually costs to buy a pound of protein or energy from it, against corn and soybean meal, plus prices by ingredient and region. One brief a week, from the public USDA record. No forecasts, no formulation advice.
Data through Aug 24, 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026
Latest issue · Sep 3, 2026
No New Readings, Protein Tie at 71% of Soybean Meal Holds
No new USDA AMS feedstuffs data has been published since the last issue. Sunflower meal and feather meal are tied for cheapest protein at 71% of soybean meal. Hominy feed leads energy at 67% of corn.
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The cheapest-nutrient leaderboard →The data
Leaderboard
The flagship: every feedstuff ranked by its cost per pound of protein and per pound of energy on a dry-matter basis, against the corn and soybean-meal benchmark. The cheapest protein and cheapest energy this week.
2 pagesIngredients
Each feedstuff's board price over time, its week-over-week and year-over-year moves, and its cost per unit of protein and energy against the benchmark. DDGS, corn gluten feed and meal, the cottonseed and oilseed meals, hulls and mill feeds.
25 pagesRegions
Every feedstuff priced in a given US trade region, cheapest first, with each price's FOB-plant or delivered basis. Feed is a freight business, so the cheapest board price is not the cheapest fed price.
31 pagesSpreads
The substitution-watch charts: two feeds against each other over time, DDGS versus corn and the like, in dollars per ton. Watch the trend here; make the comparison on the leaderboard.
14 pagesWhy prices are moving
Why DDGS prices are rising or falling right now, updated every week the data moves.
2 pages