# Eastern Corn Belt feed prices USDA feedstuffs board prices for Eastern Corn Belt, by ingredient and basis _Data through Nov 10, 2025 · source last checked Aug 27, 2026 · page revised Aug 27, 2026_ > Awaiting quote — last quoted Nov 10, 2025. > 3 ingredients last quoted in Eastern Corn Belt on Nov 10, 2025; this region has not updated since. USDA feedstuffs board. Eastern Corn Belt feedstuffs, last quoted Nov 10, 2025, show yellow grease at 41.0¢/lb FOB plant, meat and bone meal at $375/ton FOB plant, and blood meal at $1,000/ton FOB plant. ## The numbers | Ingredient | Price | Range | Basis | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Yellow grease | 41.0¢/lb | 41.0¢/lb | FOB plant | | Meat and bone meal | $375/ton | $375/ton | FOB plant | | Blood meal | $1,000/ton | $1,000/ton | FOB plant | ## About Eastern Corn Belt feed prices This page lists every feedstuff USDA quotes for the Eastern Corn Belt trade region, cheapest first, with each price's FOB-vs-delivered basis. Compare an ingredient's cost per unit of protein or energy on the [leaderboard](/leaderboard/cheapest-protein) before reading across regions: the cheapest board price is not the cheapest fed price. **What Eastern Corn Belt prices.** USDA's feedstuffs board carries 3 feedstuffs for this region: Yellow grease, Meat and bone meal, Blood meal. Every quote here is FOB at the plant, so the freight to a mill or a farm sits outside the number and has to be added before comparing against a delivered market. Across the board the range runs from Yellow grease at the low end to Blood meal at the high end, which is a spread in dollars per ton and not a ranking by feeding value. **Why a regional price differs from the national one.** A feed ingredient's price at any point is the plant price where it was made plus the cost of getting it to where it is used, so the gap between two regions is mostly a freight story. Regions with processing capacity inside them tend to quote below the national reference because the ton has not travelled; regions that consume more than they produce quote above it by roughly the haul. That difference is the basis, and it widens when trucks tighten, when fuel runs up, or when a local demand source outbids the freight-out market for the same tons. It moves for reasons that have nothing to do with the ingredient itself, which is why a regional quote can rise in a week when the national board is flat. **This market.** 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. ## Common questions ### What feed ingredients does USDA price in Eastern Corn Belt? 3 feedstuffs on the current board: Yellow grease, Meat and bone meal, Blood meal. The table above carries each one's price, USDA's published range and whether the quote is FOB at the plant or delivered. Which ingredients appear changes as trades are confirmed, so a feedstuff missing this week is usually a thin market rather than a gap in the reporting. ### Why are Eastern Corn Belt feed prices different from the national price? Freight, mostly. A feed ingredient costs the plant price plus the cost of moving it to where it is fed, so a region with processing inside it quotes below the national reference and a region that consumes more than it produces quotes above it by roughly the haul. That gap is the basis, and it moves on trucking capacity, fuel and local demand rather than on anything about the ingredient. ### Does the cheapest price on this board mean the cheapest feed? No, for two reasons. The rows are not all on the same basis, so an FOB plant price and a delivered price are different numbers before freight is settled. And a price per ton says nothing about what the ton delivers: the comparison that matters is cost per unit of protein or energy, which is what the [nutrient-cost leaderboard](/leaderboard/cheapest-protein) computes across the whole feedstuffs menu. ## About this data - Source: USDA AMS feedstuffs board - Series: Feedstuff board prices by ingredient - Basis: FOB plant and delivered, as-fed - Geography: Eastern Corn Belt - Unit: $/ton - Calculation period: Weekly - Last observation: Nov 10, 2025 - Update frequency: Weekly --- Cite: Eastern Corn Belt feed prices from the USDA feedstuffs board, as of Nov 10, 2025. The Ration. https://the-ration.com/region/eastern-cornbelt Canonical URL: https://the-ration.com/region/eastern-cornbelt