IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/cfarer/156196.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Future Patterns of U.S. Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding

Author

Listed:
  • Wisner, Robert
  • Anderson, David P.
  • Plain, Ronald
  • Hofstrand, Don
  • O'Brien, Daniel

Abstract

Corn and soybeans are key inputs in animal agriculture’s processing of grain into human food. For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, supplies of both crops were ample and low-priced as the markets reacted to policies that were intended to increase use and prevent a build-up of carryover stocks. Extremely rapid growth in the use of corn for biofuels transformed corn from primarily a food and feed crop to a food, feed and fuel crop. Soybeans also became an energy crop through rapid growth in biodiesel production. This report outlines recent and probable future changes in the biofuels and crops sectors of U.S. and global agriculture. Developments in the biofuels and crops sectors are linked to recent changes in patterns of livestock and poultry production, and potential future directions for the animal agriculture and feed industries. Key requirements for future expansion and competitiveness are identified.

Suggested Citation

  • Wisner, Robert & Anderson, David P. & Plain, Ronald & Hofstrand, Don & O'Brien, Daniel, 2012. "Future Patterns of U.S. Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding," C-FARE Reports 156196, Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics (C-FARE).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cfarer:156196
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.156196
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156196/files/Future%20Feeding%20Patterns%20fullrpt.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.156196?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Crop Production/Industries; Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:cfarer:156196. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cfareea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.