The distiller's grain, a by-product of ethanol production intended for use as animal feed, does not work with all livestock such as poultry and pigs, Hutson said. Livestock producers may take a beating if feed prices continue to climb. Lyons, who is an investor in the plant, said he usually grows 600 acres of soybeans and 600 acres of corn on his farm each year, rotating the fields in which the crops are grown. April 8, 2007 By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune correspondent While higher per...

Richard Goldstein, internal medicine specialist and assistant professor of Small Animal Medicine at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, this combination caused the unique crystals that formed in the urine of many pets who ate the tainted food, causing acute kidney failure. But how safe have pet foods been all along, or at least since certain harmful ingredients have been imported from China? Richard Goldstein, internal medicine specialist and assistant professor of Small...

Pressed sugarbeet pulp is best fed fresh, like with most byproducts, however, Booth said it stores fairly well and deteriorates slowly over time depending on the environment temperature. Pressed sugarbeet pulp, according to Booth, is a viable, digestible feed product that handles like corn silage. They gained about 2.7 pounds a day with one implant; then, we changed from quality to production and now, we're disappointed if we get less than 3.5 pounds of gain a day. Nevertheless, Booth said...

But not all companies are as diligent, especially when the risks seem lower, as with animal food. The first big lesson from the current scares is that food producers have to do more themselves. And in the past few weeks alone, the FDA has issued warnings or recalls for brands of milk, olives, bottled water, bread, prepared fruit trays, melons, oysters, and peanut butter. Food imports were rising dramatically at the same time the FDA's ability to police the food supply was in decline....

officials sound quite conciliatory about their talks with the Chinese over the pet food debacle. The FDA says the two Chinese firms took cheap wheat flour and added melamine and other chemicals to make the product look like the more expensive wheat gluten or rice protein. Cabinet secretaries and their staffs presented the Chinese with a list of "requests" to reach "goals related to food safety. officials are pressing China to share information on its methods for safeguarding food imports...