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What fraction of internal use is for animal feed?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 05:49:36 AM EST
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  • maize 82%
  • wheat 47%
  • barley 66%

Sugar beet pulp is also used for animal feed, I'll see if I can find that.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 05:58:19 AM EST
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Sugar is not clear, they say 2 Mt of white sugar in animal feed, which is weird but possible. (expensive).

I haven't got a number for sugar pulp (by-product) use in animal feed. No time to get one now.

The main thing is animal feed is the principal use of maize and barley, and common wheat for about half.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 06:07:40 AM EST
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You know, this is very interesting.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 06:10:12 AM EST
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maize: 82% of 19 Gl = 15.5 Gl
wheat: 47% of 33.5 Gl = 15.5 Gl
barley: 66% of 23 Gl = 15 Gl

Now isn't that interesting?

I think the EU agricultural sector is in for a shakeup.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 06:19:32 AM EST
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I doubt it. Reducing beef and dairy gradually is on the cards anyway. Otherwise agri-business is not ready to change sectors and modes of production that fast. It would take a decade or two to switch those volumes from animals to ethanol.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 06:38:06 AM EST
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That was going to be my question as well.

The sound bite: "to reach energy security: let's stop eating meat"

(I still have that example from somewhere - but I don't know if it's true - that you actually use more oil going somewhere by bike than by car if you have eaten meat only, because so many oil calories are needed to get a calorie in your food (7 to 1 or something)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jul 10th, 2006 at 06:13:07 AM EST
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