# New distillers grains introduced to feed market | The Western Producer

> Speakers at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association convention said new technologies are extracting additional co-products from ethanol plants, enhancing distillers grains feed value. Dan Loy noted that U.S. DDGS use is roughly half cattle, 31 percent dairy, 15 percent swine and the remainder poultry.

- Date: 2020-02-27 · published 2020-02-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/54698-new-distillers-grains-introduced-to-feed-market-the-western-producer
- Commodities: [DDGS](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DDGS.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Higher nutritional value and growing use of DDGS as a corn replacement in feedlot rations support steady demand for distillers grains, modestly reducing feed corn demand at the margin.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼
- DDGS: bullish ▲

## Sources

- producer.com: https://www.producer.com/livestock/new-distillers-grains-introduced-to-feed-market/

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