Sentences with phrase «livestock feed prices»

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Surging prices for corn, used mostly as livestock feed, have contributed to the rally in wholesale beef and pork costs during the past year, as livestock producers limited herd expansion to limit expenses on feed.

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.

France has pledged hundreds of millions of euros in aid to its drought - stricken livestock farmers, who have watched feed supplies dwindle and prices rise.

In 2008, like all other conventional prices, the price for organic feed for dairy cows and other livestock shot up so quickly — without milk processors and marketers paying farmers more to make up the gap — that for the first time in history, conventional dairy farmers were making more than organic (conventional milk prices were at unprecedented highs)!

The Weston Price Foundation, to quote from it's own website «supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture - feeding of livestock, community - supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.»

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

No matter how much of the U.S. corn crop is ruined by drought, no matter how high corn prices get, no matter how many people in developing countries are imperiled, the RFS requires that billions of bushels of corn be used to fuel cars rather than feed livestock and people.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.