Monsanto contended that commodity grain is restricted for use as feed, not cultivation, and its use, even as a second year commodity purchase violates the one-time use license agreement.

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Today, the Reinsch cottonseed has much better things to do than stay on the farm, and thanks to the farmers' marketing efforts, it is much too valuable to use as animal feed.

NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'

However, while current leading bioplastics, such as PLA, primarily use feed grains as a plant resource, the possibility of future food shortages has emphasized the importance of using non-edible plant resources to produce bioplastics.

ENGADGET: NEC builds a better bioplastic from plant stems and cashew nut shells

Abdel Hadi earned her PhD exploring the use of crayfish as chicken feed.

CNN: The incredible, edible crayfish?

Its goal is to map the complex network of signalling reactions which cells use as an internal messaging system, and then feed this information into other computational models.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS: The heart of the matter | The

After their cotton had been ginned, farmers would keep some of the seed for next year's planting, plow some into the ground as fertilizer, and use the rest to feed their cows.

NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'

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.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian agriculture

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.

NEWYORKER: Food, Inc.

Eventually, says Gruber, his fermenting process will be adapted to use corn stalks or wheat straw--known as stover and now sold as cheap animal feed or plowed back into soil--to further knock down the cost.

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