The New Energy Crisis: Food, Feed, or Fuel?

Will ethanol displace gasoline or simply take food off our plates and feed from our animals?

How can new technologies help?

The shift in corn use toward fuel ethanol has wide-ranging implications for the animal feed industry in terms of feed costs, availability, and ration formulation. It also raises the crucial question of whether ethanol production might place an important human food source out of reach of the world's population, particularly the poor.

Some of these questions need immediate answers. For example, we find ourselves with an urgent need to know as much as possible about distillers by-products such as distillers dried grains, the problematic aspects of variability, and high level of mycotoxins they may contain.

If grain prices continue to increase, what energy sources will we use in the future? Alternatives of all sorts are getting a fresh look.

How far are we from having the ability to utilize cellulose? Are there new strategies to improve the use of fibrous plant material for maximizing nutrient extraction during digestion or by pre-processing?

These topics and related health and welfare issues are on the minds of livestock producers and feed manufacturers who are looking to industry and academia and asking, 'What progress is being made?'

As such, a special goal of this year's Symposium is to look at how practices, products, and programs will ultimately affect how we utilize feed energy as well as protein ingredient resources.

Join us for Alltech's 23rd International Feed Industry Symposium
The New Energy Crisis: Food, Feed, or Fuel?

Attendance is strictly by invitation only.
This Symposium is approved for ARPAS CEU