grumpy
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Feed's fixin' to start goin' up. Mine took a $2.50/per 100 jump in price today. And it's gonna keep goin' up the way my feed dealer's talkin'.
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OUCH!! get ready.
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ZRabbits
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Welcome to Crop loss. Wait until you see what corn and fuel is going to cost. I pity the people who heat their homes with oil. God Help You. This coming winter is going to be the last nail. This will either be a turn around or the downward spiral.
Terrible weather this year. The animals suffered, the people suffered and more so the crop suffered.
Karen
Terrible weather this year. The animals suffered, the people suffered and more so the crop suffered.
Karen
Kyle@theWintertime
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Next year will be worse, I guarantee it, since a lot of this year's crops (or total lack thereof) will go into products that won't neccessarily be marketed any time soon. Take for instance how much crap has corn syrup in it.
The estimated fall price of corn jumped like 30% in a week where I am. I am lucky enough to have a friend who is a farmer who might slip me some food, and he's fixing to rake it in (he's got a nice pocket of land with better hydration than his neighbors, and for no known reason he decided to plant a craptonne more corn than usual this year, and it all seems to be coming up) but he is NOT in the majority.
The estimated fall price of corn jumped like 30% in a week where I am. I am lucky enough to have a friend who is a farmer who might slip me some food, and he's fixing to rake it in (he's got a nice pocket of land with better hydration than his neighbors, and for no known reason he decided to plant a craptonne more corn than usual this year, and it all seems to be coming up) but he is NOT in the majority.
Hazel
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all food prices will probably go up, I noticed today that rabbit feed went up at walmart here sometimes in the last week from 6.49 to 7.33 for 25 lb bag. I dont use that brand , but i always look when im there to buy dog food. I got purina One smart blend lamb and rice formula.
SatinsRule
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Farmers in this state who planted alot of acreage in corn this season will strike the mother lode. I know it's at the expense of farmers in the corn belt, but there are an abnormal number of farmers down here who are planting and harvesting corn these days.
Milo is another one. Its primary use is in animal feeds, IIRC.
Milo is another one. Its primary use is in animal feeds, IIRC.
Hazel
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well there is more market for corn than ever before because of the biodiesel. Also Milo is being studied for biodiesel because there is a need to find a nonconventional seed oil source because of supply and availabily of conventional seed oil sources like corn and soybeans.
Cindi Davis
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We pay $18.00 per 50lb bag of 16% rabbit food. But on the days I go to the neighboring town to see my Sis which is 50 miles 1 way they have 18% for 16.49 a 50lb bag, so I buy a few there as well. Hay to me is the outrages price of 10-11 per 100 lb bale.
I Did heat with oil but last winter I used an infrared heater which saved me a ton of money. Oil here is close to $4.00 per gallon and I cannot afford that on what I make so...... will pay a little extra for electric and save. Im starting now to bank up for the winter with the electric Co.
I Did heat with oil but last winter I used an infrared heater which saved me a ton of money. Oil here is close to $4.00 per gallon and I cannot afford that on what I make so...... will pay a little extra for electric and save. Im starting now to bank up for the winter with the electric Co.
scottdigital
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I may be selling my last two horses this year yet because of the prices of feed. And I know I wont be getting nearly what they are worth. :'(
Pen Pal 16% 50 lb bag just jumped up to $18.99 this week, from $16.99! Everywhere around us is still $15.25, but it's a 45 min drive. Gonna have to start buying in bigger qty, and drive. The local store is just being greedy right now. :evil: They just started selling this stuff in spring, it started out at $14.99, and up to $18.99 just since spring.
Just bought 40# Purina Complete and it has gone up $2 in the past 2 weeks.
Square bales of horse grass hay has been $9 all summer and today was $12.
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I got 20% off the pellets as the feed store owner is closing the business the 18th of this month. Prices too high, not making enough money to support his family, can't make enough to pay someone else to run it while he works full time.
Square bales of horse grass hay has been $9 all summer and today was $12.
__________ Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:22 am __________
I got 20% off the pellets as the feed store owner is closing the business the 18th of this month. Prices too high, not making enough money to support his family, can't make enough to pay someone else to run it while he works full time.
Wow, AnnClaire! To have to close the doors because of prices is sad. How awful for them.
I called our local feed rep for ADM....Pen Pals feed, and talked to him. He said it has to do with rising prices on everything, and on top of that, they've started adding new surcharges on trucking besides. He said don't be surprised if we start seeing prices over $20 per 50 lb bag in the stores soon.
I called our local feed rep for ADM....Pen Pals feed, and talked to him. He said it has to do with rising prices on everything, and on top of that, they've started adding new surcharges on trucking besides. He said don't be surprised if we start seeing prices over $20 per 50 lb bag in the stores soon.
i have about a dozen sheep and 1 donkey, they pretty much on there own, as far as feed goes. i may feed 200lbs of sweet feed and about 2 round bales of hay for a winter.
i also have 2 deer feeders and a fish feeder,i keep up. and i feed year around.
now am building a rabbit hutch, i may need to reconcider with the feed prices going up.
i also have 2 deer feeders and a fish feeder,i keep up. and i feed year around.
now am building a rabbit hutch, i may need to reconcider with the feed prices going up.
6riversfarms
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SatinsRule":3831oy8w said:
There is a lot of corn acreage here too. Just about everyone I have talked to has made a bumper crop. One friend of mine made 150 bushels/acre on unirrigated land. That is a good yield for dryland corn.
OneAcreFarm
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Our feed went up .50 per 50lb bag to $12.50
SatinsRule
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6riversfarms":2woydk3j said:
Yeah, my nephew is an agri seed rep, and his responsibility in his company is corn seed sales. He's treated like King Ding Dong about right now because it's so much cheaper to plant than rice anymore, and the profit margins are more favorable, too. If you'd told me 20 years ago that this region would have as much corn as has been planted the last few years, I would have told you to sue your brain for non-support.
grumpy
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Mine took another hit with this last order......$34.00 per hundred weight!!! It's time to start looking at other feeds. I can't help but wonder, however, if the feed store isn't getting a bit greedy.
It's a guaranteed sale, I'm like clockwork in picking the feed up every 9-10 days. They use a fork truck to unload the pallet off of the delivery truck...leave it set until I show up. Fork truck again to take it to my van (60 feet), unload half and the other half ten days later.
$70.00 profit for ten minutes worth of work. Sorry........but that seems a little excessive to me. It's not like they buy the stuff and "HOPE" someone shows up to take it off their hands. It's a done deal with me. He let it slip today what his costs were......
I thought to myself, "You money-grubbing little #######!"
Grumpy.
It's a guaranteed sale, I'm like clockwork in picking the feed up every 9-10 days. They use a fork truck to unload the pallet off of the delivery truck...leave it set until I show up. Fork truck again to take it to my van (60 feet), unload half and the other half ten days later.
$70.00 profit for ten minutes worth of work. Sorry........but that seems a little excessive to me. It's not like they buy the stuff and "HOPE" someone shows up to take it off their hands. It's a done deal with me. He let it slip today what his costs were......
I thought to myself, "You money-grubbing little #######!"
Grumpy.
3mina
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That bites grumpy, unfortunately they know we're a little over a barrel.
