Note: As of May 2025, the Feed Grains Custom Query application and the associated CSV file were discontinued. For May through August 2025, users were advised to download and use the Feed Grains Yearbook and Outlook Tables for the latest data. In September 2025, two versions of the Feed Grains Yearbook will be published on the ERS website: “Feed Grains Yearbook Tables—Historical” and “Feed Grains Yearbook Tables—Recent.” Starting in January 2026, only the “Feed Grains Yearbook Tables—All Years” Excel and machine-readable CSV files will be posted.
The Feed Grains Database is a statistical compilation of four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign coarse grains (feed grains plus rye, millet, and mixed grains), hay, and related items. These statistics include data published in the monthly Feed Outlook and Feed Grains Yearbook tables. Data are displayed as monthly, quarterly, and/or annual depending upon the data series.
The key purpose of the Feed Grain Database is to provide a variety of current and historical time-series feed grain data, some of which cannot be found elsewhere, to the public in a user-friendly form. Available data include but are not limited to:
- Supply: beginning stocks, production, and imports;
- Demand: utilization for food, seed, and industrial uses, feed and residual, export, and ending stocks;
- Prices: farm and market prices;
- Quantities: concentrates, oilseed meals, and animal-and grain-protein feeds;
- Feed-price ratios for livestock, poultry, and milk;
- And more