You really have about three options and their variations on procuring feed ingredients at the best possible price. The options which are before you will be somewhat dictated by whether you can make your own feed or whether you must buy it as complete. We will deal with those shortly but before we think about buying feed right, let's take a look at how you are using it currently.
So regardless of your feed procurement strategy, the first thing you should do is to check the following things:
1. Is your feeding program (feed budget) optimized for your genetics and the current ingredient prices.