Hereford Corned Beef

Just how much feed does the American ethanol industry produce each year? In a new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol producers delivered 23 million American metric tons of livestock and poultry in the world last year, nearly three times the amount of wheat, sorghum, barley and oats fed to U.S. livestock in the 2007/08 marketing year. In other words, the amount of food produced by the ethanol industry in 2007/08 is roughly equivalent to the combined total amount of food consumed by cattle on feed last year in Texas, Kansas , Nebraska, Colorado, and four of the nation's largest feedlot states.

To read the analysis of the FRG, "Feeding the Future" visit: # http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/reports/ EconomicImpacts

An often overlooked and under-reporting of the ethanol industry in America is the large volume of high-protein, high livestock feed produced energy and ethanol fuel by America of 171 biorefineries. Only two thirds of every bushel of grain processed by an ethanol plant is actually used for fuel production. The remaining third of the bushel is enhanced and placed on the market feed, often in the form of distillers grains, corn gluten meal and corn gluten meal.

Produced in several forms, depending on the technology used at each biorefinery, the nutrient feed is increasingly moving grain and protein meal in diets for cattle, dairy cattle, pigs and poultry at home and abroad. In fact, about one billion bushels of corn were displaced by the co-products of ethanol in 2007/08, an amount equivalent to about 15 per cent of the total use of corn for food.

According to the analysis of SAB industry data, exports of distillers grains - the most common feed co-product of ethanol - will increase to over four million metric tons in 2008, equivalent about 160 million bushels of corn.

In addition, the return of one third of every bushel of corn used in ethanol production on the market feed directly affects the net use of corn ethanol. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is estimating the use of ethanol from corn to crude oil marketing year 2008/09 to 4.1 billion bushels (Based on production estimates ethanol, the RFA use estimates gross corn near 3.8 billion bushels). However, when the impact of the livestock feed co-product is taken into account, the use of corn for ethanol-based net USDA estimates of 2.9 billion bushels, 23 percent of total use of maize - far less than the misleading claims of ethanol using a third or more of the corn supply of the nation.

"Livestock animal co-products of ethanol production are the best kept secret in the industry," said President Bob Dinneen FRG. "The public focus has been on industry production of ethanol fuel as a renewable alternative to imported oil. But the production of a feed of high quality is equally important. Our industry is really in the business of producing feed and fuel. "

As the RFA notes in her new television commercials, in Hereford, TX, the beef capital of the world, ethanol plants in the city offer food, fuel and economic development that will Hereford Ethanol Capital of Texas. See ads GoodFuels.