Sentence examples for prices of feed from inspiring English sources

Rather, catfish assistance came as part of a $170 million federal purchase of pork, chicken, lamb and fish announced in early August, all intended to prop up farmers hit by skyrocketing prices of feed like corn and soybeans.

This pushes up the price of feed and makes consumers pay more for groceries.

"They think about protein, the price of feed and bird weight".

The gap between the two indexes is caused in part by the price of feed but also to lower energy prices.

The payment is also adjusted to the price of feed, which has been high, thanks to record corn prices, and will be much higher after this year's nationwide drought.

The growers favored federal rules requiring the use of the corn-based fuel in gasoline, but beef and chicken suppliers said the rules would raise the price of feed stocks.

The study's findings have been fiercely contested by animal welfare groups, which argue that most of the problems stem from the economic downturn and the high price of feed.

Around 40% of the American maize crop will be used to produce ethanol this year.Rising prices affect farmers in less positive ways, of course; Arable farmers are quick to cite the cost of fertiliser and livestock farmers the price of feed.

But nobody expects the federal purchases, equivalent to about one week's national sales of processed catfish, to bring the price at the pond up to the break-even point or to affect the price of feed in any way, or to offset import competition, which was up 30 percent in June from a year earlier.

The poor harvest drove up the price of feed and created a shortage of cattle, affecting the whole beef industry.

The composition of the simulated diets is most sensitive to corn price, but that the optimal mix of feeds is ultimately not very stable and highly dependent upon the relative price of feed inputs at any given time.