[Beagle8U]

All my neighbors that raise beef grind their own feed from the same dent corn that they haul to the ethanol plants. The beef and hogs are eating the whole thing.

Hay and alfalfa prices are through the roof because those fields have been tilled up to plant more corn and soybeans.

Without a cheap supply of hay for winter feed the beef become damn expensive to feed in the winter.

I raised hogs for years and could feed out a 250# hog for around $65 in feed. It now costs more than double that for the same feed from the same grain mill in just the last 2 years.

If that leftover slop was such great feed the meat prices should be down because the corn production has gone way up.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Hay and alfalfa prices are through the roof because those fields have been tilled up to plant more corn and soybeans."

BS Alfalfa don't grow where corn grows, and corn don't grow where alfalfa grows.

Hay and alfalfa prices are through the roof because:
A) the price of fuel tripled,
B) the price of fertilizer tripled

NOT because commodity prices for a TON of feed corn went up $3/ton

[Nathan Zachary]

Oh, and most beef farmers don't feed their cattle corn, just dairy farmers do, and they grow their own, so commodity, nor ethanol demand has NO effect on them.

I've never seen a farmer BUY all his feed. They certainly wouldn't be a farmer for very long.

Same goes for hogs. they GRW their own feeds stuff, around these parts it's barley.

never try BS a farm boy.