Sentences with phrase «corn grain production»

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While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

In the feedlot, cattle are primarily fed grains like corn and soy and distillers grains which are a byproduct of ethanol production.

Sadly, 95 % of all corn is GMO and wheat is a stored grain and both of these crops are prone to mycotoxins like mold and fungus from storage facilities as the production is so massive.

I do understand the nutritionists point that wheat, corn, soy and rice have been super mass produced over the past 40 — 50 years and with the GMO to complicate matters, grains that were not subjected to the mass production, chemicals, and GMO would certainly be a different product.

Meats from feedlots can be given such things as corn, corn by - products (some is derived from high fructose corn syrup production and ethanol), barley, milo, wheat, and other grains and roughage that often consists of corn stalks, alfalfa, cottonseed meal, and premixes of chemical preservatives, antibiotics, and fermentation products.

Corn dominates world grain production at about 900 million tons, followed by rice and wheat at about 700 million each.

Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.

That means a diet high in starchy ingredients that creates fast blood sugar spikes like white potato, white rice, corn meal (remember meal means concentrated — dehydrated product ground into powder), and brewers rice (a by - product of rice production for humans that lacks nutrients of the whole grain rice).

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

By - products of ethanol production include distiller's grain, which is used as a very low cost cattle feed, and also corn oil can be extracted, which can be converted into biodiesel.

Chapter 2 Data: Population Pressure: Land and Water (XLS PDF Highlights) World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Grain Consumption and Stocks, 1960 - 2009 Wheat - Oil Exchange Rate, 1950 - 2008 Wheat Production in Saudi Arabia, 1960 - 2009, with Projection to 2016 Grain Harvested Area Per Person in Selected Countries and the World in 1950 and 2000, with Projection to 2050 U.S. Corn Production and Use for Fuel Ethanol, 1980 - 2009 Countries Overpumping Aquifers in 2009 World Irrigated Area and Irrigated Area Per Thousand People, 1950 - 2007 World Population of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Africa, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Nigeria, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in China, 1961 - 2007 World Total and Per Person Wild Fish Harvest, 1950 - 2007 Top of Page

Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.»

Indeed, an article in Popular Science cites a study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University that predicts that U.S. ethanol production could consume more than half of corn, wheat and coarse grains by 2012, ratcheting up food prices and potentially causing massive shortages.

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.

Corn to ethanol production also produces distillers grain, a low cost animal feed.