Potential for Energy Conservation in Feeding Livestock and Poultry in the United States (Classic Reprint)

In feeding layers and broilers in the Northeast, it is estimated that approximately and trillion btu respectively could be saved annually if energy minimizing rations were fed. Together this is roughly equivalent to 38 million gallons of gasoline. To accomplish this energy savings the cost of the associated products would have to rise. The price of eggs would need to increase by cents per dozen and the cost of broilers by two cents per pound. In the aggregate, poultry farmers in the Northeast would have to pay about $59 million more for their feed.

Thus, in the Northeast, considerable energy savings could be achieved. However, the cost of substituting least energy rations for least cost rations would be great on the order of $85 million, or per btu saved.

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