Corn Prices

[clemsonfor]

Not necessarily. I had a timed 50 gal drum feeder on a lease that was emptied every weekend by a squirrel who had learned to turn the spin cage by paw. That rascal would climb up and dump corn on the ground for hours at a time.

Thats sweet! I love squirrels there smart little rascles! Why did you not take a .22 and wait on the poor little smart fellow?

 

[5030]

Our local Walmart sells 40 lb bags for $8.97. Tractor Supply sells their 40-lb bags for $8.49. The local feed store sells 50 lb for $10.75. The 50 lb bags are full of powder. The cleanest and best price per lb is TSC. It's rare that the best corn is also the cheapest, but that's the way it is locally.

TSC isn't a bad price considering that bulk corn (screened for feed) is near $6.00/bushel at the local co-op. A bushel comes in around 54 pounds depending on RM. I typically buy 1250 bushel for feed but forage is much cheaper this year. A portion of that goes in my corn burner but it will be a pellet burner this year courtesy of TSC and Indiana Hardwoods. I just put 6 ton in the barn

It's not powder, it's cracked kernels because the RM is very low.

 

[Rocksprings]

The price of moon shine went up alot also.

 

[Western]

I made a wire "cage" for my feeder, could of bought one but had the wire. Sure works for keeping the coons and squirrels out though.

Jim, good thing we humans don't eat the cob either, talk about getting "plugged up"!

 

[jinman]

It's not powder, it's cracked kernels because the RM is very low.

The dust that's in my corn feeder has collected from 150 lbs I added a couple of months ago. I bought it at the feed store. When I poured into the feeder, each kernel was covered with a white powder that the wind blew off like talcom powder. When I put a new slinger onto my feeder, I emptied it out and tried to get rid of some of the powder by pitching the corn up with a scoop and letting the wind carry the powder away like chaff off of wheat. I thought it was clean enough to feed and put it back into the feeder. Unfortunately, when it gets down to the last 50 pounds, the powder binds the kernels together so well that the corn won't flow into the hole down to the slinger. I have to add two or three bags of corn to get things going. The next time my feeder gets low, I may just dump out this dusty corn and start over with fresh. I don't see any bugs, so I'm sure the dust isn't from weevils. I'll just keep buying corn from TSC where the kernels are shiny because they have very little dust in them.

 

[smstonypoint]

Just curious -- I'm not a hunter and so I do not buy deer corn.

Do any of the vendors provide the USDA grade (Corn - USDA Market Grades of Shelled Corn) for the deer corn they are selling?

Steve

 

[clemsonfor]

I have always heard its sheaper to buy from the silo or the farmer in the field. Have buddies that fill their trucks with 55gallon drums and either pull under the grain drop by the silo or to the side of the combine in the field. At least when i use to know more folks that could bait. Where i live now like i said baiting is illeagal. They still sell a ton of corn cause folks still do it. But the only thing i bait is my cameras.

 

[Western]

It is cheaper to get it at a mill, but the proximity from me negates the savings, but I have read threads on a hunting forum I visit where a few guy's in further West Texas go to feed mills.

Jim, I wonder if that "dusty" corn was bagged from the bottom of the silo? I have also been told that some grain mills add Diatomaceous earth to the silos for bug control.

I have also got the same quality as you from the feed stores (looks like last years W. Texas field corn), so I have been getting mine at Brookshires

 

[forgeblast]

With corn that high, look into deer feed. Some of the purina stuff goes for that price and has more protein.
We used to use the molasses mix, that was until the bear clawed the feeder, bent the legs, jumped the feeder smashing it to pieces. Now in the off season, when they are dropping the little ones we will through some high protein stuff out.

 

[smstonypoint]

I wonder if that "dusty" corn was bagged from the bottom of the silo?

Grain handling facilities (e.g., elevators, mills, etc.) generate a lot of dust and that dust poses explosion risks. The recent elevator explosion in Kansas occurred while handling corn: Three More Victims Found After Explosion At Kansas Grain Facility | Fox News.


Steve