Stephen Cadogan: Farm-to-farm trading can underpin grain market

Buying wheat, barley or oats off the combine, and storing it with any of the available treatment methods, will provide livestock farmers with a high-energy, top quality feed for less than €190 per tonne.

This will reduce total concentrate costs by €50-80 per tonne.

For example, many beef producers feed very high levels of cereals to finishing cattle.