Recent Public Presentations and Studies

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2/16/2012 National Turkey Federation Presentation

The 2012 NTF slide set is available here.

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.

The entire issue is available from this link: http://www.choicesmagazine.org/magazine/pdf/issue_5.pdf or from this site by clicking here.

Cost of biofuels policy to the U.S. Economy

Ethanol production, spurred on by federal mandates, 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.

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 hear.

Dr. Tom Elam named as a Poultry USA "Top Gun" consultant

The November 2006 edition of Poultry USA named Tom Elam as one of the most trusted consultants to the U.S. poultry industry. You can see the entire list of "Top Guns" at: http://www.wattpoultryusa-digital.com/wattpoultryusa/200611