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Generation in the United States." Measures of Environmental
Performance and Ecosystem Condition. Washington, DC: The
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image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. aged rice,
etc.) from all grain mills in 1988 amounted to 17.37 MMT. This
does not include grain consumed by the fermentation industries,
which produce both alcoholic beverages and fuel alcohol. We
estimate that about 19 MMT of grains, mostly corn, were used for
fermentation products in 1988. In addition to grain products,
6.4 MMT of vegetable oils and 7.64 MMT of corn syrup were
produced by grain and oilseed mills. The fermentation
industries, in turn, produced 2.2 MMT of beverage alcohol and 5
MMT of ethanol for fuel, 1 MMT of animal feed concentrates, and
an estimated 1 MMT of beverage carbohydrates. To make