feedgrain

A 5% variance in baseline yields used to project available supplies of feedgrain and protein is not unusual.

These historically high prices for corn - the primary feedgrain for livestock - are squeezing hog, beef, dairy and poultry farmers the hardest despite very high wholesale and retail meat prices.

Many of his fellow ranchers in Alberta have gone out of business, hammered by a combination of fewer buyers for their cattle and soaring feedgrain prices, he said.