Know markets are horrible for all agriculture commodities and the salt in the wound is transportation costs. What are y'all seeing for range cube prices in West Texas, Eastern New Mexico, Southeastern Colorado, etc. Had one of the big outfits renege on a high protein range cubes contract due to issues with cottonseed meal availability (their reason given). Do know both ADM and Pyco in Lubbock have had production issues on CSM.

Curious to see others' experiences, information, alternatives, etc.

We fill a 2500# cake box a couple of times per month. Have run into any supply issues yet. That's not a huge qty, but they've always had it available.

We buy in bulk just pull our cake truck across the scales under the overhead and back over the scales. No more busting 50# bags and it's awesome!

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We fill a 2500# cake box a couple of times per month. Have run into any supply issues yet. That's not a huge qty, but they've always had it available.

We buy in bulk just pull our cake truck across the scales under the overhead and back over the scales. No more busting 50# bags and it's awesome!

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Seen these - pretty cool. I usually take full bulk trailer load to load my bins. Mind sharing price, protein level (20%, 32%, etc.), and general location?

I will when I get back home. I'm on the road traveling for my "real job" that supports my farming/ranching habits.

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I will when I get back home. I'm on the road traveling for my "real job" that supports my farming/ranching habits.

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Yeah, I sure know how that is. Someday ranching will pay. Someday!

Between $12.50 and $13 for a 50lb sack of 20% in central Texas. That's up $2 since fall.

Havent bought cubes in probably a month (mostly 20% pasture cubes is what we get) from Producers Coop in Bryan, but similar to above I think theyre well into the $12 per 50 pound sack range.

Your supplier reneged on a contract? I trade Ag commodities and there is no doubt times are tough, but that seems like a crappy move. Never have run into that issue here, but I've always got the sense that Producers will do whatever it takes to honor a contract. My in-laws have been contracting bulk cubes for decades with them and never had Producers back out or change up a price on them once they locked it in for a season.

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Havent bought cubes in probably a month (mostly 20% pasture cubes is what we get) from Producers Coop in Bryan, but similar to above I think theyre well into the $12 per 50 pound sack range.

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Can confirm, I bought the 20% Range Cubes Thursday at Producers for $11.99
The ones at Tractor Supply were 12.99

20-25% increase over two years

Feed store here. Have had six price increases on feed since January.

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Havent bought cubes in probably a month (mostly 20% pasture cubes is what we get) from Producers Coop in Bryan, but similar to above I think theyre well into the $12 per 50 pound sack range.

Your supplier reneged on a contract? I trade Ag commodities and there is no doubt times are tough, but that seems like a crappy move. Never have run into that issue here, but I've always got the sense that Producers will do whatever it takes to honor a contract. My in-laws have been contracting bulk cubes for decades with them and never had Producers back out or change up a price on them once they locked it in for a season.

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Second year in a row. "Reneged" maybe is harsh so maybe "restructured" is more like it. They wanted to replace 32% cubes with 20% or offer DDG cubes - they cited again shortages in CSM - or, they wanted me to wait a while on delivery. Wasn't Producers.

I can imagine so. Show steer feed where I am has gone up from $11 to $15 a bag from two months ago.

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Feed store here. Have had six price increases on feed since January.

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Any examples to share? A friend in NM that deals Purina told me that his new wholesale prices were a pretty clean $100/ton increase last week.

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hillcountryag86 said:

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Feed store here. Have had six price increases on feed since January.

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Any examples to share? A friend in NM that deals Purina told me that his new wholesale prices were a pretty clean $100/ton increase last week.

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Mine have not gone up that much but, with freight, it's been about $65-$75 / Ton.

Prices increased a lot about a year ago. I used to exclusively use 100% cottonseed (about 40% protein), but that price increased so much that I moved to only using 20% protein, which is 12.99 a 50# bag at our local feed store.

I think the increased use of cottonseed as deer feed definitely affected the price long before the Biden inflation, then that hit too.

$12.99 is not bad at all, especially if it has a fair amount of corn. I am at $12.79 but not for long.

Almost 2 years ago to the day, standard 20% cubes cost me $8.95 per 50# bag. Today they're costing $11.75 per 50# bag. I prefer to feed DDG cubes when I can but they're somewhere over $14 now too. I haven't sold any calves since November but the price then did not reflect and the current market still doesn't reflect even just the 30% increase in feed, not to mention all of the other inputs.

I'm in high tack so not directly related to agriculture But we are very involved in manufacturing and notified all of our partners Friday that they will be seeing the third price increase of significance in the last six months


On top of that our factories in China let us know that they can't ship anything from the factory because China literally shut the trucks down from operating. Not seeing the news reporting this. China is trying to hurt us again

Tonys seed and feed in Gainesville was 10.85 last time I was in, about 3 weeks ago. Can't say it hasn't gone up since then.

Sorry for the delay. We pay $0.175/lb or the equivalent of 8.75/50# bag. This is for a 20% protein cake.

If you have the means/equipment bulk is the way to go if you are feeding a bunch of cattle.

Glad to turn the bulls out to pasture after feeding them for 8 months.

Pasture grazing only for now, and assuming we will get some very needed rain, that will be the norm for several months.
Other ways to spend money....like fertilizer for the hay fields.

If the drought sets in for the long haul, we will have to supplement with hay throughout the year here in the panhandle. There's a reason I keep at least 2 years worth of hay. I've got a circle of wheat that I'll likely cut 1/2 for hay to restock my hay supply some. We have typically stopped feeding hay regularly by this time, but we haven't stopped.

One thing we did this winter was buy a hay unroller. We experienced a much lower waste of hay than conventional feeding with a hay ring. We also found we could feed 1/3 less hay each time.

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Sorry for the delay. We pay $0.175/lb or the equivalent of 8.75/50# bag. This is for a 20% protein cake.

If you have the means/equipment bulk is the way to go if you are feeding a bunch of cattle.

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Think OP is buying bulk and large numbers. He indicated he buys by the semi load.

OP, send me a private message and I may be able to help.

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If the drought sets in for the long haul, we will have to supplement with hay throughout the year here in the panhandle. There's a reason I keep at least 2 years worth of hay. I've got a circle of wheat that I'll likely cut 1/2 for hay to restock my hay supply some. We have typically stopped feeding hay regularly by this time, but we haven't stopped.

One thing we did this winter was buy a hay unroller. We experienced a much lower waste of hay than conventional feeding with a hay ring. We also found we could feed 1/3 less hay each time.

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Starting to liquidate here in the Concho Valley and Edwards Plateau as some have only seen 1" or less of rain in the last 3-6 months.

In fact, if this next round this weekend does not drop 1 inch or more, we will sell them all by month's end as my dad is frankly getting too old and is starting to get knocked down feeding cubes out of a bag and we dont have enough head to justify truck delivery. I travel too much to get out there enough to feed and we are about to go into the red buying more cubes/feed.

If we dont see serious rain in the next 45 days, we will burn just like it did back in '11.

As some writer wrote at some point in this part of the world in the past, "West Texas is in a perpetual drought broken by some periods of rain"……

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Anyone bought loose mineral lately??!! WOW!

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I will when I get back home. I'm on the road traveling for my "real job" that supports my farming/ranching habits.

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Yeah, I sure know how that is. Someday ranching will pay. Someday!

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Hobby farming/ranching alternative: try crouching in full sun, knee-deep in sheet, tearing up 100-dollar bills

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Anyone bought loose mineral lately??!! WOW!

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Phosphorous prices are beyond outrageous. Add in that it's essentially a monopoly and they have to truck it long distances adds lots of salt to that wound.

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jtp01 said:

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I will when I get back home. I'm on the road traveling for my "real job" that supports my farming/ranching habits.

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Yeah, I sure know how that is. Someday ranching will pay. Someday!

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Hobby farming/ranching alternative: try crouching in full sun, knee-deep in sheet, tearing up 100-dollar bills

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WTH??