Posted by coonie minnie on March 02, 2020 at 18:33:35 from (50.123.209.143):
In Reply to: Dairy farming posted by teddy52food on March 02, 2020 at 10:14:12:
Forage is very, very tight in the upper Midwest. Anything with fiber to keep a ruminant fed is akin to gold. In some cases, the crazy forage prices don't make sense long term, but cattle prices aren't great for dairy cattle, and it is only a few months til spring when there will be forage again.
I'm guessing are buying the forage to keep going to better times vs selling now.
As a dairy producer, right now the cheapest ingredient in my diet right now is ground corn! Maybe corn silage has a lower market value, but not by much! I feed distillers solubles or "syrup", usually a very cheap by product of the ethanol industry, but with low gas prices, local ethanol plants are running at a bare minimum to keep open, and what was waste from them is now selling for more than corn. The feed world is very upside-down.
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