U.S. Ethanol Growth to Feed China’s Hogs, Dorr Says (Update1)

April 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S., the world’s largest corn exporter, plans to double overseas sales of a by-product from ethanol distillation in the next five years as demand from animal feed makers in China expands, an industry group said.

Total U.S. exports of dried distillers’ grains with solubles, or DDGS, a high-nutrient feed used in the livestock industry, may jump to as much as 11 million metric tons a year, from 5 million tons now, U.S. Grains Council President Thomas Dorr said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday.

“As China has set an import quota for corn, Chinese demand for DDGS is expected to grow” as the product is not covered by quotas, Ruan Wei, senior researcher at Norinchukin Research Institute Co. in Tokyo, said in a phone interview.

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