Feed ingredient prices by region

The Central US listing is the national reference on the feedstuffs board rather than a single trade point, which makes it the line to read a regional quote against rather than a market anyone ships from.

Iowa sits at the center of both corn production and dry-grind ethanol capacity, so a distillers quote here is a plant-gate price with short freight to the buyer, and it usually sets the floor other regions are read against.

Illinois combines heavy corn processing with river access, so its board carries both dry-grind ethanol co-products and wet-milling streams, and barge freight on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers is part of what moves a delivered quote here.

Indiana and Ohio sit at the eastern edge of the Corn Belt, closer to the eastern dairy and poultry demand centers than to the western plants, which is why quotes here often carry a delivered basis.

Last quoted Nov 10, 2025; this region has not updated since. The Eastern Corn Belt is where Midwest supply meets eastern demand, so this board tends to read above the plants further west by roughly what the haul costs.

Minnesota carries both ethanol co-products and a large dairy load of its own, so local demand competes with the freight-out market for the same tons.

The Minneapolis and Dakotas listing covers the northern Plains, where oilseed processing sits alongside ethanol and where distance from the eastern and southern demand centers puts real freight into any delivered price.

Nebraska pairs ethanol capacity with the largest concentrated cattle-feeding demand on the board, so co-products often move a short distance from plant to feedlot and the local bid can hold firm even when the national market softens.

South Dakota is plant-dense and demand-light relative to its production, so this is a freight-out market and its quotes tend to sit at the low end of the board.

Kansas pairs ethanol and milling capacity with cattle feeding, and it is a wheat-milling state, so wheat co-products show up on this board alongside the corn stream.

Kansas City is a rail and terminal market rather than a production point, so its quotes tend to reflect assembled freight economics more than any single plant's gate price.

Wisconsin is a dairy-demand market first, so the board here reads as what it costs to bring feed in rather than what it costs to ship it out.

Michigan is a net feed importer with dairy and livestock demand set back from the main production belt, so delivered quotes carry the haul.

Missouri sits on the river system with both processing and livestock demand, so its board mixes plant-gate and delivered quotes.

California is the largest single feed-demand market in the country and produces very little of what it feeds, so almost everything on this board arrived by rail or truck from the Midwest and the price carries that haul.

The San Joaquin Valley holds the densest dairy concentration in the United States and no local supply of corn co-products, so this is the clearest delivered-basis market on the board and freight is the largest single variable in it.

The Pacific Northwest pairs dairy demand with export capacity at the Columbia River and Puget Sound ports, so this board can answer to an export bid as well as to a domestic one.

The Central Coast is a smaller, demand-only market with no local processing behind it.

The Sacramento Valley mixes dairy and specialty-crop agriculture, and like the rest of California it imports nearly all of its concentrate feed.

Southern California is a demand market at the far end of every freight lane, which is why its quotes tend to sit at the top of the board.

Last quoted Sep 21, 2026; this region has not updated since.