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The cost of feed is by far the most important factor in the competitiveness of a particular country, region, or chicken company. A number of factors including world availability of feedstuffs, local tariff rates, and the success of a hedging program, among others, influence the cost of feed. This chapter will investigate some of the issues related to grain and in particular those issues related to corn since 85% of the world’s chickens use corn as their source of energy and corn represents approximately 70% by weight of chicken feed. The second most important ingredient for the world’s chicken feed is soybean meal, the most widely used source of protein.
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Aho, P.W. (2002). Feed and the Poultry Industry. In: Bell, D.D., Weaver, W.D. (eds) Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0811-3_13
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