Feed Corn (Yellow Maize, Feed Grade)

US No. 2 / No. 3 yellow corn for feed mills & integrators

Feed corn is bought on a grade and four numbers. The grade is the US standard (No. 2 or No. 3 yellow corn) or its local equivalent, and the numbers are moisture at 14–15.5% maximum, broken corn and foreign material at 3–5%, damaged kernels at 5–7% and test weight at 54–56 lb/bushel, with heat damage capped separately because it signals a lot that has already started to spoil. The numbers that decide whether a cargo is accepted, though, are aflatoxin (typically 20 ppb maximum, 10 or lower in some markets) and the other mycotoxins, fumonisin, DON and zearalenone, which a feed mill tests on arrival because they pass straight into the animal. GM status is the other gate: the United States, Brazil and Argentina ship GM corn, Ukraine and South Africa can supply non-GM, and a market that requires a non-GM or an identity-preserved certificate has just changed its origin list.

Buy feed corn as a cargo when you run a feed mill, a poultry, dairy or swine integration, or a feed import business with silo capacity; and buy the origin that clears your GM, mycotoxin and phytosanitary rules before comparing price, because a cheap cargo that fails on aflatoxin is a claim rather than a bargain. Parcels run from containers and 5,000 MT coasters for island and smaller markets to Supramax and Panamax bulk cargoes into the larger importers of the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, priced against CBOT or the FOB Brazil and Argentina references with a freight and quality differential. CBIL brokers feed corn against independent certification of grade, moisture, BCFM, damage, test weight, aflatoxin and the mycotoxin panel at load, with fumigation and phytosanitary documents to the destination's rules, in bulk and containers on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.