Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Corn Finds New Home as ‘Green’ Cattle Feed
- Syngenta’s Enogen seeds boost feed efficiency, study shows
- Seeds for feed could represent 90% of Enogen use within years
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A type of corn on its way to becoming obsolete is getting a lifeline: It could be a key to making the beef industry greener.
Swiss-based Syngenta Group’s Enogen seeds is a brand of corn used for ethanol production that seemed to be on its way out as biofuels demand took a dive during the pandemic. But a recent study discovered that when fed to cattle, the corn improved efficiency in beef output by 5%.