[george76]

Ethanol is made mostly from corn in the United States, and more than one-third of the country’s corn crop goes into making it, said Professor Lee Meyer, from the UK College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects a greater percentage of the corn crop will go toward ethanol production in the next few years.

“Though corn production is on an upward trend, production has not increased nearly as quickly as the use of corn for fuel,” Meyer said. “Something has to give. That means less corn is going to be used for feeding livestock.”

Corn is the primary feed for chicken and hogs, and it is often used for the last stage of feeding cattle. Its price has increased by approximately 40 percent in 2010.

http://southeastfarmpress.com/grains/corn-common-denominator-fuel-meat-prices

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[Mr. Lucky]

The US corn crop has increased from 6.5 Billion bushels per year to over 13 Billion bushels per year since 1980. In 2010, ethanol is expected to require a little over 4 Billion bushels of corn, leaving 9 Billion bushels of raw corn for other uses. In addition to this corn, the dry milling process will leave 72 Billion pounds of distillers grain which makes an excellent high protein livestock ration.