Price of Grain

[Hillbilly Rebel]

How much does it cost you? I realize that in different places and at different times the price will vary, but it may help to know who is getting the better deal.

I just bought my winter supply of food quality white whole corn from the Coop in Sevierville, Tn. I paid $12.40 for each 50 lb bag. They will knock off about .15 cents a bag for purchases in lots of 1000 lbs or more.

What are you buying and how much is it costing you?

[pumpman]

I can get 50 lb cracked feed corn for $8.95 a bag.

[Feckless]

I pay 0.68 Euro/Kg of malted barley, when I buy 100kg or over (I brew aswell)

[homebrewnorcal]

I do bulk orders with some guys up north of me...50lb sac of 2 row (malted barley) costs me about 34 bucks and wheat isn't a whole lot more...

[Hack]

I found a local farmer last year who'll sell me barley at $.16 a pound.

[goose eye]

last week ole boys sold some corn to the mill for 3.10 a bushel . 56lbs

so im tole

[ALRevenuer]

For US customers Tractor Supply has the cheapest corn around for $6.50 a 50# bag. Cracked corn is a tad more but not much.

[father william]

If there are grain farmers near you, try searching Craigslist in your area for corn/barley/rye etc. You might post in the wanted to buy area, but I'd phrase it pretty carefully

I can get 100 lbs of either dry kernel (corn stove) or hammer-milled yellow feed corn for $10, but have to bring my own containers.

It's a local feed supplier working from a farm that mixes various grains and feeds for animals but also sells the grains unmixed. Good deal for the farmer, they get more than the silo price, and the middleman is eliminated.

[Slow & Steady]

My local co-op sells such a poor quality cracked corn it is hard to find any corn in amongs the cob chunks and bug dust. I wouldn't feed it to my chickens so I'm sure as hell not going to cook it up for a mash. That being said, I pay way to much for my OIO Brewers Flaked Corn. The cost for 55lbs. is $31.85 plus 16.35 shipping = $48.20... However, it is as clean as a whisle, I don't have to boil it, and it tastes good in the whiskey.

S&S

[Nightforce]

$9.00 here for fairly decent cracked corn. Not much cob parts in it when put in a wash. I haven't cooked any yet for an all grain mash tho. Next on my list of washes to do.

[ChillinDistilln]

I found a local farmer last year who'll sell me barley at $.16 a pound.

Unless it's malted it's not much good for making fermentables.

[Dnderhead]

""Unless it's malted it's not much good for making fermentables""
why?

[still_in]

i am getting ripped off (aparently) by paying roughly $50 (CAD) per 50lb bag of flaked corn or malted barely or just about any grain. seeing what you guys pay makes me want to get in touch with some farmers. i live in the city now but back home (where i spend summers) i know i guy who runs an organic feed business I could probably get some from him.

[goinbroke2]

$50.00 for 50lb?? Where the heck in Canada are you?? Down east here it's $13.00 for a 40kg bag (88lb's) at the feed and seed.
The Co-op has 5kg bags for $5.00 and 40kg bags for $15.00.
Actually I almost picked up a 5kg bag of "Shubenacadie chicken scratch" (barley, cracked corn, wheat) for $5.00 but I already have a batch on the go.

If your in a city (toronto,montreal,vancouver) it may be well worth the trip to go for a drive to the countryside and find a feed store. Also, look on Kijiji for horse feed etc, you'll find lots of places to buy oats/corn/barley as well as weird stuff you can't use like nyger bird feed etc.

[father william]

Today was a good day. Visited a feed store that I found mention of in a local lawn care forum, of all places.

They didn't have every single grain I'd like to buy (no rye, for example) but they have 50 lb bags of malted barley for $9 USD, wheat, millet, some other interesting grains.

I asked them if they knew if the barley was 2 row or 6 row and they looked at me like I was speaking Klingon. Not labelled on the bag, so it's a mystery. They did say they had sold some to home brew people in the past, but not a lot.

Bought a bag and will start an all barley malt fermenation tonight.