Liquid Feed
Feb 25, 2008 farming
For the cattle farmer, times are tough.
“I can’t afford commercial feeds,” says cattle farmer Austin Tipton.
So Tipton feeds his 500 head of cattle a liquid based feed, which is actually a leftover of the ethanol making process.
[Feed Prices Have Farmers Looking for Alternatives]
I’ve no idea what this is. It just sounds wrong though.
Also, I’m sure I’m oversimplifying this immensely, but every time I see a news story like this I think to myself: so we’re creating a renewable fuel to save the environment, but destroying our food, and realistically our land, in the process?
Tags: ethanol, liquid feed, renewable fuel
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Of course the best part of this story is that ethanol production itself is very destructive to the environment. With all the millions of dollars going into building new ethanol plants the cumulative effects are likely to be bad. Really, really bad.