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Recent Public Presentations and Studies
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11/8/2011 and 11/9/2011 CFIA Presentations
The State of the Industry slide set is available here. The Corn Price Drivers slide set is availablehere. The Corn Price and Ethanol paper is availablehere.
9/15/2011 California Poultry Federation Outlook Presentation
The slide set is available here.
4/18/2011 Feedstuffs article on the future of cattle feeding
The article is available here.
Written Testimony to the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee
Testimony submitted by Dr. Elam on April 13, 2011 is available here.
2/10/2011 Video of Dr. Elam at NTF
A video of Dr. Elam made at the 2011 NTF annual meeting is available at: here.
2/10/2011 NTF Outlook Presentation Slides
The PowerPoint slides presented by Dr. Elam at the 2011 NTF annual meeting are available here.
12/13/2010 Emerging Corn Price and Ethanol Relationships Dr. Elam's and Dr. Meyers paper on corn prices and ethanol is available here
11/30/2010 Iowa Turkey Federation Slides
Dr. Elam's presentation to the Iowa Turkey Federation is available here
11/25/2010 Feedstuffs Article on Corn Balance Sheet
The Feedstuffs article "Ethanol Has Made the Traditional Feedgrain Balance Sheet Obsolete" by Dr. Elam is available here 11/19/2010 Comments on GIPSA Proposed Rules
The GIPSA Proposed Rules comments prepared by Dr. Elam for the National Chicken Council are available here
9/21/2010 Elanco Turkey Tech Seminar
The PowerPoint slides presented by Dr. Elam at the NTF annual meeting are available here 5/19/2010 Chicken Competition Study
The study on chicken industry competition prepared by Dr. Elam for the National Chicken Council are available here
1/11/2010 NTF Outlook Presentation
The PowerPoint slides presented by Dr. Elam at the NTF annual meeting are available here
11/12/2009 Penn State Dairy Nutrition Conference
The PowerPoint slides presented by Dr. Elam at the Penn State conference are available here
10/20-23/2009 Poultry Meetings, Vienna, Austria
The PowerPoint slides presented by Dr. Elam at the Elanco Center of Excellence meeting in Vienna are available here
7/20/2009 Feedstuffs Article on Global Meat Demand
The article highlighting the relationship between global consumer spending and total meat production can be downloaded here.
Choices Article on Biofuels Policy The AAEA journal Choices published a special edition on biofuels. The FarmEcon LLC paper that appeared in Choices is available here.
Does ethanol production affect gasoline prices?
One of the claims of the pro-ethanol lobby is that increased ethanol production is holding down the price of gasoline in the U.S. In a statistical analysis of the U.S. gasoline market Dr. Elam shows that increased ethanol production since January, 2000 has had no effect on either gasoline prices or refinery margins. Wholesale gasoline prices are explained by crude oil prices, gasoline inventories, refinery utilization rate, season of the year and a series of one-time events in 2005-2007. The complete paper is available here.
National Chicken Council meeting, Hilton Head, July 22, 2008 Click here to open/save the FarmEcon LLC presentation at the NCC meeting.
Cost of biofuels policy to the U.S. Economy Ethanol production, spurred on by federal subsidies, is increasing corn demand and causing sharply higher feed costs for producers of meat, poultry and dairy products. Despite the largest corn plantings on record and near-record yields, corn prices remain well over their 3-year average. Given the corn prices that ethanol producers can afford at $100+ per barrel oil and current ethanol subsidies it appears that feed costs have permanently moved to a much higher plateau.
Dr. Elam has published a study on the effects of Federal ethanol subsidies on feed and food costs. This study was sponsored by the National Turkey Federation, the National Chicken Council and the American Meat Institute.
A copy of the full study is available here.
A copy of the study presentation to National Chicken Council/U.S. Poultry and Egg Association Food Media Seminar, April 7, 2008, is available here.
This paper is also available from the "Balanced Fuel and Food" website.
An update of this study, including an expanded analysis of the effects of the 2008/2009 RFS done for Balanced Food and Fuel is available here.
Published September 27, 2007: 10 Myths About Food-Based Bio-Fuels
The facts behind bio-fuels produced from foodstuffs are not what you may read and here.
Dr. Tom Elam named as a Poultry USA "Top Gun" consultant
Thomas E. Elam, PhD
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