Commodities: Drought, storms, poor crops, rising demand from emerging markets and hedge fund speculation is going to keep some upward pressure on agricultural feed products.
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The grain is one of the key starting links in the country's food chain, used to make cooking oil, tofu products and in feed for the burgeoning pig industry.
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Had it been rendered, it could have been turned into an element of a number of products, including chemicals or feed for poultry or livestock, he said.
Because corn is increasingly used for ethanol production, it has decoupled from historical livestock cycles and changed the margin relationship between feed costs and the sale of livestock products.
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Food is donated to food banks and hunger relief organizations and other organic waste products are used to make animal feed, compost and even energy creation.
While this helps Apple extend its lead with these blockbuster products, we expect that some cost pressures will feed through as well.
Hassan Radmard, head of trade development at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said Monday that the increase in prices of poultry and dairy products was a result of difficulties in buying animal feed, transporting goods from ports and completing financial transactions because of sanctions, official student news agency ISNA reported.
Shipments of agricultural products fell by 4% due to lower demand for feed shipments after a surge in exports last year, the company said.
The price of milk, cheese and other dairy products is also expected to surge, while ranchers face steepening feed costs.
That means farmers will be devastated and consumers could see higher prices at the grocery store for corn, soy and wheat products, as well as meat from animals raised on corn feed.
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It seems that the use of (heavily subsidized) corn as a cheap universal feed for chickens, for cows, and even for fish, not to mention the corn products that seep into candy, soft drinks, cheese, and almost everything else, has made that particular package of starch nearly inescapable.
Among the products Google just announced it plans to sunset (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading service Google Reader is now on the chopping block.
But since corn is used to feed livestock, any increase in its price will also cause the price of beef, pork, poultry and dairy products to rise.
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