US feed by-products, read plainly
The feed by-products board.
The substitution leaderboard: every feed by-product 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 Jun 29, 2026 · updated Jul 10, 2026
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The substitution leaderboard, the corn and soybean-meal benchmarks, and the by-product moves behind them. One email a week, built from public USDA feedstuffs data. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
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Leaderboard
The flagship: every feed by-product 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 feed by-product'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 by-product 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.
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