Farmers in Brazil, Argentina or Australia might step up to supply Chinese buyers who use
soybeans as animal feed and to produce cooking oil.
Not exact matches
There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and
soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role
as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.
Soybeans can be used to produce edible oil and grease and
as an ingredient of
animal feed.
The plant offers direct benefits to Michigan's pork farmers and
animal feed suppliers such
as corn and
soybean farmers,
as well
as other local businesses.
This is a big problem, but not
as big
as the rain forest destruction related to growing
soybeans for
animal feed for cattle, and for cattle grazing.
This includes eating less
animal products and using less concentrated
feed such
as wheat and
soybeans in
animal production.
The current average western diet contains anywhere from 20:1 to 30:1 ratio of omega - 6 to omega - 3 fats due to the high consumption of grain and soy - based foods and derivatives like
soybean oil and corn oil that is pervasive in the food supply (and don't forget the corn and soy that's used
as the main
animal feed component instead of natural forage).
They have been studied for
feeding to agricultural
animals such
as pigs to see if they could replace
soybeans in the diet.
Peas have also been studied for
feeding to agricultural
animals such
as pigs to see if they could replace
soybeans in the diet.
Practically speaking, one would probably use for ethanol production only a little over half of the soil bank lands and add to this some portion of the plants now grown
as animal feed crops (for example, on the 70 million acres that now grow
soybeans for
animal feed).