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A Nebraska Extension analysis examines how higher grain prices raise feedlot cost of gain and shift decisions on feeding distillers grains. Feedlots may place heavier cattle and ship at lower finished weights to offset feed costs.
Higher corn costs push feedlots to substitute byproducts such as DDGS, supporting demand for distillers feeds while limiting total feed intake.
feedlotmagazine.comSource Elliott Dennis, Livestock Marketing, Risk Management Economist, Galen Erickson, Nebraska Extension Beef Feedlot SpecialistJun 1, 2021Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
