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SwineCast 0720, Is There a Future for U.S. Grains, Biofuels, Livestock and Poultry Feeding?

Dr. Bob Wisner, Iowa State University, and Joel Newman, President and CEO of American Feed Industry Association, provide some highlights of the report titled Future Patterns of U.S. Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding. This summary was the topic of a presentation held in Phoenix, Arizona, July 17, 2012 at the Federation of Animal Science Societies meeting. The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) provided a grant on behalf of the American Feed Industry Association to the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) in order to conduct a review on future patterns in the feed industry.
Future Patterns of U.S. Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding [PDF]

Agriculture Markets

Agriculture Markets How are commodities and markets important to agriculture? What are some of the information sources to use? What are some of the issues in the markets today? This AgChat conversation, with the help of guest of Farm Futures Arlan Suderman (@ArlanFF101), looks into these questions.

What Are Global Perspectives on Commodity Price Spikes?

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The Diane Rehm Show brought together four experts on world economies and agriculture to address the current commodity prices and their impact on food, fuel, and fiber.

How Are Feed Vs Fuel Going To Look In 2011?

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Dr. Robert Wisner, University Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, has published an in depth report on the corn and soybean availability for biofuels in 2011.

Corn use for fuel ethanol production has become the second largest source of demand for the U.S. crop, with total corn use for this purpose expected to be only about 10% less than its use for livestock and poultry feeding in the year ahead.

He offers several points that those in animal production and crop production need to keep in mind:

Corn supplies will be tight and some rationing of demand likely will be needed in the year ahead.

With the very small reserve supplies of corn that are expected at the end of August 2011, more corn acres almost certainly will be needed next year to meet continuing demand growth.

In the year ahead, we anticipate further ethanol expansion, but at a much slower pace than in recent years as the industry approaches a “blend wall”.

With low stocks, corn prices have the potential to be very volatile.

Chris Hurt - Hog Forecast 2010

Hog Forecast 2010 - Chris Hurt - Purdue University, from the 2010 Midwest Pork Conference, September 15, 2010, Danville, IN, USA.

Dr. Seth Naeve and Dr. Lee Johnston - Pork and Beans

Pork and Beans - Dr. Seth Naeve, soybean agronomist, associate professor, Agronomy and Plant Sciences Department, University of Minnesota; Dr. Lee Johnston, professor, swine nutrition and management, Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, from the Minnesota Pork Congress, January 20-21, 2010, Minneapolis, MN, USA.