Corn Commentary

Tons of Livestock Feed

Just how much animal feed does the American ethanol industry produce each year?

According to a new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association, America’s ethanol producers delivered 23 million metric tons of livestock and poultry feed to the world last year, or nearly three times the amount of wheat, sorghum, barley and oats fed to U.S. livestock in the 2007/08 marketing year.

Put another way, the amount of feed produced by the ethanol industry in 2007/08 is roughly equivalent to the combined total amount of feed consumed by cattle on feed last year in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado-the nation’s four largest feedlot states.

Read the entire report here.