# Hominy feed price USDA hominy feed board price per ton, national fob plant median, with its cost per unit of protein and energy _Data through Aug 17, 2026 · source last checked Aug 27, 2026 · page revised Aug 27, 2026_ > Now $123/ton (fob plant) as of Aug 17, 2026, USDA, up 0% on the week. Protein costs $0.592 per lb of crude protein (167% of soybean meal); energy $0.076 per lb of TDN (72% of corn). Hominy feed prices energy at 72 percent of corn's cost per pound of TDN and protein at 167 percent of soybean meal's cost per pound of crude protein. The national FOB plant price is $123 per ton as of Aug 17, up 8.9 percent year over year per the USDA. Against its four-year median of $149 per ton, it sits 17.6 percent lower. ## The numbers | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week over week | $123/ton | $123/ton | 0.0% | | Month over month | $123/ton | $123/ton | 0.0% | | Year over year | $123/ton | $113/ton | +8.9% | | vs 4-yr median | $123/ton | $149/ton | -17.6% | ## About Hominy feed price Hominy feed is an energy feed, fed for its digestible energy. On a dry-matter basis it runs about 11.5% crude protein and 90% TDN, roughly 0.95 Mcal of net energy for lactation per pound of dry matter, at about 90% dry matter as fed. Those figures come from University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension, Composition of Selected Livestock Feeds (FSA3043), from NRC Beef Cattle 1996 + Dairy One. Hominy feed. The leaderboard uses them to convert this week's board price into a cost per pound of protein and per pound of energy, so it can be ranked against corn and soybean meal. Prices are quoted per ton, and the cheapest board price is not the cheapest fed price once freight and moisture are counted (see the FOB-vs-delivered guide). Hominy feed is the bran, germ and leftover starch skimmed off when a dry corn mill makes grits, corn meal and corn flour for human food, so supply follows food-grade corn milling rather than the ethanol or wet-milling industries the other corn co-products come from. It runs close to corn in energy with more protein and fat, since the germ's oil comes along. That fat is the quirk buyers watch: hominy goes stale within weeks in a way whole corn does not, and fed heavily it can soften pork fat, so hog rations use it in moderation. Cattle and hog feeders buy it mainly as a corn extender when it prices below corn. ## About this data - Source: USDA AMS feedstuffs board - Series: Hominy feed board price - Basis: FOB plant preferred, national cross-region median - Geography: National - Unit: $/ton - Calculation period: Weekly cross-region median - Last observation: Aug 17, 2026 - Update frequency: Weekly --- Cite: Hominy feed price is $123/ton as of Aug 17, 2026 (USDA feedstuffs board). The Ration. https://the-ration.com/ingredient/hominy Canonical URL: https://the-ration.com/ingredient/hominy