Sentences with phrase «feed grain prices»

Expanding milk demand, along with recent drought conditions and high organic feed grain prices, especially in California, are also playing roles in the current shortages.

Even if California production declines, continuing development of organic dairy production in the traditional milk - shed states, lower feed grain prices, and diversity in the business models used for organic dairy production could support expansion of the U.S. organic dairy sector.

Not exact matches

New York Fed economist Gauti Eggertsson contends that while the Fed of the 1930s was apt to overreact to commodity price shocks, nowadays we know how to take the occasional commodity price surge with the appropriate grain of salt.

It said preliminary results of a trade inquiry had found that U.S. sorghum, a grain used as animal feed and in liquor distilling, was sold at improperly low prices that hurt Chinese farmers.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty.

A silver lining for Australian grain growers has been feed and malt barley exports at prices touching those for wheat.

Mr Mathews said Grain Growers did not want to see changes to the pricing of the top two tiers of feed barley.

The rise in grain prices makes feed grains more expensive and adds further pressure as desperate farmers who can't support their stock dump cattle on the cheap and depress livestock prices.

Meanwhile, they have to pay organic prices for grain if they need to supplementary feed during drier periods.

The rising demand for meat exacerbates the pressures on grain and oil - seed prices since several kilograms of animal feed are required to produce each kilogram of meat.

The upcoming shortfall is likely to impact the price of corn feed and grain - related items significantly and could trickle down to higher food and gas prices

K1 is found in dark leafy greens like Kale, Collard, and Swiss Chard, and Vitamin K2 (also called Activator X by Dr. Weston A. Price) is found in grass fed (but not grain fed) butter, chicken livers and natto.

Weston Price found that mice fed whole grain flours that were not freshly ground did not grow properly.33

Grain - fed butter contains roughly 15 micrograms per 100 g. Price said the quantity in butters varied up to 50-fold but his method wasn't quantitative.

For example, rising meat consumption (especially pork) in developing nations puts pressure on grain prices through the use of grain for animal feed; it takes an average of five kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of meat.

Given the price points commanded by natural and grain - free items, the farm and feed channel seems like an obvious place to gain continuing growth for these high - performing categories.

While Taste of the Wild and Blue Buffalo's Wilderness formula have many of the same qualities and are both ultimately options you can feel safe feeding your furry friend, we feel that Taste of the Wild's clean ingredient list, lower price, use of hormone and antibiotic - free meats, grain - free guarantee, and ethoxyquin - free preservation techniques give it the slight edge over Blue Buffalo's Wilderness formula.

There are quality grain frees with lower price points to make it affordable and you feed less.

Personally, if I feed a kibble, I make sure it's grain free and some of the brands I've fed (various price points) are Earthborn Holistics, Fromm, Orijen, Pure Vita, Nature's Variety Instinct.

Today's seminal Lester Brown post about China's escalating grain consumption and coming conflicts over trade and food prices - see Can the United States Feed China?

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

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).

Higher prices will curb demand, particularly the feeding of grain to livestock, and will encourage production.

Experts attributed the rapid rise in food prices to several factors including high petroleum prices, drought in Australia, a weak U.S. dollar, commodity speculation, and rising demand for grain - fed meat by China's rapidly expanding middle class.

I don't want to start a big debate on vegetarianism vs. meat - eating, but right now there is way more than enough food being produced in the world; it's just that we grow crops that we feed to animals, and then we eat the animals (in many cases it's a way to make money — sell meat for a premium to the rich instead of selling tons of grain for a fraction of that price to starving people).