Some producers are seeking an alternative feed due to the sky-rocketing price of corn. Written By: Emily Beal | × Producers are looking for a cost-friendly feeding alternative to take the place of corn in their livestock's diet. (Emily Beal / Agweek) Due to the dramatic increase in corn prices, some producers are looking for feeding alternatives. “When corn is increasing like it has been over the past few months, that has caused our cost of gains to go up, as well as the cost of everything else to go up. So when we start looking for corn alternatives, nothing else is cheaper. It drove the price of everything else up, so that is the challenge people are having right now,” said Karl Hoppe, North Dakota State University livestock systems extension specialist for the Carrington Research Extension Center.