The feedstuffs board.
The nutrient-cost screening board: every feedstuff 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 Oct 12, 2026 · updated Oct 17, 2026
Latest issue · Oct 15, 2026
USDA Raises Feed Grain Supply; Board Holds Without New Quotes
No new USDA AMS feedstuffs prices since last week. Sunflower meal holds the protein lead at 68% of soybean meal. USDA ERS raised 2026/27 feed grain supply 10.1 million metric tons to 476.4 million, the second-largest on record.
Read the brief →Furthest above normal
The cheapest-nutrient leaderboard →The data
Leaderboard
The flagship: every feedstuff 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 on the latest USDA board.
2 pagesIngredients
Each feedstuff'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 feedstuff priced in each 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.
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