Ethanol production increasing supply of livestock feed

Delta Farm Press
Oct 23, 2008 9:43 AM

The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council.

Ethanol production increased in 2008 by approximately 3 billion gallons to 9.3 billion gallons compared to last year, Hobbie told more than 500 attendees at the USGC’s International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind. Even more critically, production is projected by Informa Economics to reach 11.9 billion gallons in 2009.

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