November 04, 2011

New report from the USDA on DDGS

A new report from the US Department of Agriculture found that in livestock feed rations more DDGS from ethanol plants is actually replacing corn and soybean in meals for livestock. This has important implications for discussions regarding ethanol’s impact on feed grains availability, feed prices, land use effects, and the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of producing corn ethanol. The USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) also stated: “Feed market impacts of increased corn use for ethanol are smaller than that indicated by the total amount of corn used for ethanol production because of DDGS.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers.




Enhanced by Zemanta

No comments:

Post a Comment




See our data and privacy policy Click here