will you be burning $7 corn this fall/winter? What do you think the prices will do ? Go up, down or stay around $7?

What is the price of electricity doing, fuel oil? LP? taxes? wood pellets? interest? I see everything going up except wages and Social Security.
Now if inflation jumps that will put people in a different tax category and we get to pay more.
Actually you can buy new crop corn cheaper then 7.00 I think farmers were offered between 5 and 5.50 for new crop corn not long ago.

no way am I going to go thru all this work

AND

burn anything that costs over 200 a ton

NEVER

Baby boiler if getting torn out this spring

I never foresee a use for it again

Cept maybe Ill use the feed system to build a nice grill and smoker

15% corn for October is around $5.70 to $5.80 around here.
I will contract 12% cleaned corn for $6.10 per bushel or $217.86 per ton or the 15% clean corn for$ 5.85 per bushel or $209 per ton
If you want to contract wood pellets looks like $185 per ton. $200 for the Pine pellets

Sting ... Never say never

not even going to comment on 7.00 corn.

I will probably burn a mix of anything. Hoping that we can get the wheat off early enough and No-till in 60 acres of buckwheat and burn that next fall.Will probably burn mixed with corn and corn cleanings and home made pellets out of waste.

I will smoke some 7 dollar corn. It works great in my appliance. I mixed some pellets in this winter. Still burning and sitting in my boxers . Fuel getting a bit low but used 58 bu corn and 34 bags of wood pellets this season so far. Will burn till June if needed.

I am going to gamble that buying now will be the cheapest pricing we will see all year. I just got my stove and based off of my calculations of needing 6 tons to heat all winter ..... I will save over $1,000 dollars just based off of what we spent last year on oil. Oil is now 50 cents more a gallon then it was last year.

Depends on what propane prices are.

In hind sight I could have pre-bought propane @ 1.67 gal. last year and when I'm not burning anything but propane I use about 2200 gallons a year.
So 2200 x 1.67 = $3674 (I did pre-buy 550 gal @ 1.67)

this year I have spent on corn and pellets 2300 and also 1100 on propane that = $3400

So I didn't save that much but I'll probably have about 200 gal. of propane more left this year than last so that would be additional savings of $334. So it was still worth it.

I didn't pay that much attention last year to the pre-buy prices of propane but with corn and pellets around or over 200 a ton, if I can get 1.67 propane I'm going to buy more for next year.

Sting wrote:


why is baby boiler getting torn out?