Much of the nation's DDG is used in livestock feed, and large volumes are exported to China.
The continued use of growth promoters - low-dose antibiotics placed in livestock feed - risks the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which could threaten human health.
Instead, the fishing industry processes them into fish meal and oil to make food pellets for salmon farming and livestock feed - especially for Danish pigs.
Sami have tried to adapt in a few ways, most commonly to gather the thousands of reindeer into an enclosure and feed them with livestock feed.
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Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, says giving up 20 percent of America's corn crop to make ethanol has unintended consequences, like spiking the cost of livestock feed.
The EU has recently imposed an universal testing scheme on animals older than 30 months destined for the food chain as well as a six-month ban on meat-based livestock feed.
Two hundred GM scientists and engineers are working on all four problems at once at the company's fuel-cell headquarters, a lab next to a livestock feed store in tiny Honeoye Falls, N.
Such soybeans are typically used for feed livestock and for milling, but not for replanting.
Take maize (corn, to Americans) which is used both to make ethanol and to feed livestock.
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.
Tourism is creating other problems for the local environment, too, including increased population density, over-dependence on wood as a fuel and construction source and the overgrazing and cutting of mountain slopes to feed livestock.
Their constant activity provides us with food, and the food we feed to livestock.
They sometimes barter, trading milk and cow dung for grass to feed their livestock.
Additionally, heavily subsidized corn and soy feed to livestock contribute to massive deforestation in the developing world.
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Moreover, as people grow more prosperous they eat more meat, which will require even more crops to provide feed for livestock.
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Crops are withering as a result of this historic drought and feed for livestock is growing ever more scarce and expensive.
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.
But much of the cynicism is centered on corn-based ethanol that some consider not just an inefficient fuel source but also one that also creates food shortages, driving up the cost of feed for livestock producers.
Having spent years increasing production and acreage, Embrapa is now turning to ways of increasing the intensity of land use and of rotating crops and livestock so as to feed more people without cutting down the forest.
Greater meat consumption by the newly rich in China and other developing countries is also fuelling demand for grain, because livestock consume large quantities of feed.
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Weather isn't just about what to wear, although that matters, but about livestock: hay supplies, feed and corn, deicers and water flow, shelter from the wind and wet.
Wroxham Barns is having to source newborn lambs from outside the county to ensure there is enough livestock for visitors to bottle-feed at Easter.
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Livestock farmers who use corn to feed their animals could see higher costs, but most have contracts with processors who provide their feed grains.
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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.
There, a farmer ran afoul of his allowed wheat acreage under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 by growing additional wheat, not for sale, but to feed his family and his livestock.
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"In addition to an approximately 60 percent decline in fish production, there has been degradation of pasturelands, leading to a shortage of animal feed estimated at 45 percent in certain places in 2006, reduction in livestock and biodiversity, " the agency said.
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