feedgrain

or feed grain

[ feed-greyn ]

noun

1. any cereal grain used as a feed feed for livestock, poultry, or other animals.
2. a preparation of feed feed composed of grain or containing grain, especially any commercially processed feed feed used principally for finishing cattle or poultry for market.

Word History and Origins

Origin of feedgrain¹

feed + grain

Example Sentences

A 5% variance in baseline yields used to project available supplies of feedgrain and protein is not unusual.

From Forbes

These historically high prices for corn - the primary feedgrain for livestock - are squeezing hog, beef, dairy and poultry farmers the hardest despite very high wholesale and retail meat prices.

From Reuters

Many of his fellow ranchers in Alberta have gone out of business, hammered by a combination of fewer buyers for their cattle and soaring feedgrain prices, he said.

From Reuters