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 Oct 26, 2026 · updated Nov 5, 2026
Latest issue · Oct 27, 2026
Corn Holds Energy Lead; No Feedstuff Prices Below Benchmark
No new USDA feedstuffs quotes arrived this week. Sunflower meal leads protein at 71% of soybean meal. No tracked feedstuff undercuts corn on energy. The board holds unchanged into late harvest.
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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 on the latest USDA board.
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 each 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.
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