A brand new report from the Institute for Feed Schooling and Analysis (IFEEDER) quantifies the quantity of feed consumed by the United State’s main livestock, poultry, and aquaculture species. In 2023, U.S. livestock, poultry, and farmed aquaculture consumed roughly 283.6 million tons of feed.
Excluding harvested forages and roughages, the examine discovered that in 2023 beef cattle consumed essentially the most feed at 76.7 million tons, adopted by broilers at 61.5 million tons, hogs at 60.9 million tons, dairy cattle at 48.7 million tons, egg-laying hens at 17.7 million tons, turkeys at 10.9 million tons, horses at 5.3 million tons, sheep and goats at 1.2 million tons, and aquaculture at 615,800 tons.
The report primarily examined over 70 distinctive feed substances used among the many studied species, discovering that by weight, corn tops the checklist at 159.4 million tons, adopted by soybean meal at 35.4 million tons, corn distillers’ dried grains at 32.6 million tons, wheat middlings at 5.6 million tons, and canola meal at 5.2 million tons.
The report additionally discovered that 37% of whole feed consumption (excluding harvested forages and roughages) got here from “round” substances, which means coproducts or byproducts from the human meals business or different industrial processes that may in any other case go to landfill. For hogs, 28% of feed consumption got here from round substances.
The overall quantity of feed fed to U.S. hogs in 2023 equaled roughly 60.9 million tons. Greater than 77.8% of this quantity got here from corn-related substances. Different commodity teams embody 10.8% of soy-related substances, 5.2% of processed plant co-products, 2.8% of small grains, and 1.8% of nutritional vitamins and minerals.
View the total report right here.
February 25, 2025/ IFEEDER/ United States.
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