I'm not seeing 1.9% and that sounds way off. US produces about 27 billion pounds of beef, roughly half of that weight comes from feedlots where they eat ~80% o

I'm not seeing 1.9% and that sounds way off. US produces about 27 billion pounds of beef, roughly half of that weight comes from feedlots where they eat ~80% of feedlot calories comes from grains. There's a bunch of numbers tossed around but it's something like 60-70 billion pounds of grain to get those 27 billion pounds of beef.