DDGS hub
DDGS prices by region
This week's USDA distillers dried grains (DDGS) board price by trade region, the national median, and how it moved, with the ethanol-production backdrop.
Data through Aug 10, 2026 · source last checked Aug 20, 2026 · page revised Aug 20, 2026
Cite
- national median across 11 fob plant regions
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS feedstuffs board; EIA weekly ethanol production for context
- Series
- DDGS (distillers dried grains) price by trade region and national median
- Basis
- FOB plant preferred, as-fed $/ton; ethanol production in MBBL/D
- Geography
- National, by US trade region
- Unit
- $/ton
- Calculation
- Weekly cross-region median
- Last observation
- Aug 10, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
DDGS is a national median of $165/ton as of Aug 10, 2026, up 0% on the week and up 12% on the year, across 12 reporting regions on the USDA feedstuffs board. It delivers protein at $0.310 per lb of crude protein (91% of soybean meal's) and energy at $0.104 per lb of TDN (104% of corn's) on a dry-matter basis. This is a price screen on a single nutrient, not a feeding recommendation.
| Region | DDGS price | Basis | Week over week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | $142/ton | FOB plant | +2% |
| Wisconsin | $146/ton | FOB plant | +0% |
| Minnesota | $149/ton | FOB plant | +2% |
| South Dakota | $154/ton | FOB plant | +0% |
| Nebraska | $160/ton | FOB plant | +1% |
| Michigan | $165/ton | FOB plant | +0% |
| Indiana-Ohio | $166/ton | FOB plant | +1% |
| Kansas | $170/ton | FOB plant | +0% |
| Missouri | $180/ton | FOB plant | +6% |
| Illinois | $182/ton | FOB plant | -1% |
| California | $238/ton | FOB plant | -1% |
| Pacific Northwest | $255/ton | Delivered | +1% |
The ethanol backdrop
- U.S.
- PADD 2 (Midwest)
US fuel ethanol production 1,089 thousand barrels per day the week of Aug 14, 2026 (EIA, oxygenate-plant production). DDGS is a co-product of dry-mill ethanol, so production is a supply-side context backdrop, not a price driver; this site never claims one moves the other.
About DDGS
DDGS (distillers dried grains with solubles) is the headline feedstuff on this site: the protein-and-energy feed left when a dry-mill ethanol plant ferments the starch out of corn. This hub gathers its price across every USDA trade region that quotes it, with the national median the leaderboard scores. Because DDGS is an ethanol co-product, its supply tracks how hard ethanol plants run, so the weekly EIA production line is shown as market context below, never as a price forecast. Compare DDGS on cost per unit of protein and energy on the nutrient-cost screening board before reading across regions; the cheapest board quote is not the cheapest fed price once freight and moisture are counted.