Replies to post #25271 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[spongepaul]

I quit reading at “union of concerned scientists”.

These articles are always vague in all the right places. For example : cattle
I want numbers of livestock, are we talking calves, feeders or large steers?

When they say corn, are they talking ground corn, chopped silage? At different stages you are feeding the same animal milk replacer, corn chop, or adding extra protein to their daily feed, and in different ratios.

If I’m pasturing cattle, it will take a lot more acreage than fields of row corn supplied to a feedlot with bunk silos full of silage.

I suspect I could change 10 million necessary acres to 1 million necessary acres easily with some anhydrous ammonia, spray herbicide, fertilizer and irrigation.