What's New?
Volatile Markets Are ag producers out of hedging alternatives in these volatile markets? Can cattle feeders make money at $6/bu corn? Read these two recent issues of In the Cattle Markets to learn more. Upcoming issues of In the Cattle Markets are always available online.
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Co-Product Storage Are you interested in learning how to store wet ethanol co-products, and more importantly, how much it would cost? Visit the Ethanol Co-Products page to learn about the opportunities and methods for storage in a new publication called “Storage of Wet Co-Products.” Plus, download a new Excel spreadsheet called Co-Product STORE (Storage To Optimize Ration Expenses) to estimate your own costs to bagging or bunkering wet co-products.
Cattle CODE
The Cattle Co-product Optimizer Decision Evaluator is a spreadsheet tool to assist cattle feeders and nutritionists in calculating feeding margin changes resulting from feeding ethanol byproduct feeds. Cattle CODE can be used to compare the marginal benefits to feeding byproducts (e.g., improved cattle performance) with the extra costs that result from feeding byproducts (e.g., transportation and handling costs). Download Cattle CODE free of charge.
Livestock Insurance
With increased volatility in livestock prices and feedgrain markets, hedging livestock sales prices and feedstuff prices is increasingly important. Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) insurance and Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) insurance are two relatively new tools that be part of a livestock producers risk management plan. Visit the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Livestock Insurance website to find self-study webinars and publications, plus much more
