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by Jackie Helling on Sep 25, 2008Feed AND fuel
The Renewable Fuels Association has released a paper on the ethanol co-product distillers grains, proving once again that this nation’s ethanol producers are capable of feeding and renewably fueling this nation simultaneously.
When ethanol is produced, only 2/3 of the bushel of corn is used. The remaining third of the bushel goes back into the markets as a nutrient rich livestock feed.
America’s ethanol producers delivered 23 million metric tons of distillers grains last year, “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.”
The report is available on the RFA website.
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