Sentences with phrase «grain ethanol production»

The other concern is the high degree of embedded (and unsustainable) fossil fuels required for grain ethanol production.

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

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

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.

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.

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.

Pimentel also was an early critic of grain - based ethanol fuel 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.

Robert, the notion that western grain production feeds the third world is just as much a con job as the notion of ethanol from grain.

Industrial countries could produce enough sugar cane / grain ethanol and / or cellulosic ethanol to replace the 75 + million barrels / day they consume without adversed effects on food production and / or major changes in land use.

Although human beings have been producing ethanol, grain alcohol, from sugar and starch for millennia, it is only in recent years that the genetic engineering of biocatalysts has made possible such production from the hemicellulose and cellulose that constitute the substantial majority of the material in most plants.

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, Februaryethanol 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, Februaryethanol 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, FebruaryEthanol 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).

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

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

Food riots in several nations due to raising prices that are at least partially directly tied to diversion of grain crops to ethanol production.

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.

In Vicksburg AZ is an ethanol refinery integrated with a dairy farm getting a 10 to1 return, producing milk, ethanol, biodeisel, distillers grains, and methane production power.

The researchers conclude: «The energy discarded in wasted food is more than the energy available from many popular efficiency and energy procurement strategies, such as the annual production of ethanol from grains and annual petroleum available from drilling in the outer continental shelf,» and so minimizing wasted food means minimizing overall energy consumption.

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