Higher feed concentrate cost (corn or barley) will in the long run benefit ranchers. If you think otherwise, you need to reconsider or talk to an expert. Short term with such a quick rise in price it has been painful. Long term it is better for RANCHERS not FEEDERS. It will also probably diminish the advantages of retained ownership in many cases.
Some reasons it will be better for ranchers:
Pounds put on with forage will be cheaper relative to pounds put on with concentrates.
Competing meats have no easy cheaper alternates
Holstein steers will not be taken to as high weights at slaughter due to increased cost of gain, decreasing Holstein tonnage.
Placement weights will go up
Time on feed will go down, making total tonnage lower.
It will take more cattle to get the same tonnage.
Using forage land for yearling grazing will allow fewer cows decreasing the size of the calf crop.
Select / choice spread will increase.
DDGS can easily be used as feed supplements by ranchers but use in feedlot is limited. When the feedlot supply is saturated it will be cheap feed for ranchers (like for winter protein and energy source)
Think about it.
PS The reason NCBA seems more concerned than R-CALF is that R-CALF is primarily a cow/calf organization, whereas NCBA has a MUCH higher percentage of members who are FEEDERS.