Basically, it takes a lot less land, a lot less time, and a lot less resources or inputs to get a pound of grain versus getting a pound of meat.
But here's the problem: meat comes from animals that need to eat plants in order to be "harvested" for their meat. Grain comes from plants (domesticated grasses) which are at the very bottom of the food chain and are eaten by animals. So quite frankly, the comparison is really an apples to lettuce comparison. It would probably be more fair to see whether it's cheaper to produce a pound of chicken versus a pound of beef than a pound of grain versus a pound of ambiguous meat.
Meat comes from any animal, from a deer to a chicken, thus can be produced in different ways. It doesn't always mean or have to be with grain; many animals can be raised for meat without using grain. And animals can be raised without costing the environment significant damage like is done with producing crops.
Crops need to be produced on land that is tilled, or soil exposed to erosion and heating, which makes for less land for wildlife to live from. This is an environmental cost that has not yet been assigned a dollar value. To add to this, there is also an environmental cost with producing these grains by use of fertilizer, fuel, and pesticides because they add to pollution to the air and harm soil microbes.
Arguably, with raising livestock on grain there is also an added environmental cost, especially those that are raised intensively or finished on high-concentrate diets like with cattle. While many animals, especially in North America, are raised this way, a number of livestock herds are not. Instead, they take advantage of the perennial nature of plants to regrow after grazing or after every spring to use as forage for the animals to harvest themselves. A lot less inputs, except electric fence and some time by the farmer, is needed to allow this to happen.
No doubt production costs (based only on economic data) for growing grains (which is around $300 to $500/acre) is still cheaper than even raising grass-finished (~$1557/head according to U of C Berkley) or grain-finished ($1,250/head according to Manitoba Agriculture of Manitoba, Canada), but if environmental costs were accosted to grain production and grain-finishing, both would be more expensive to produce than grass-finished beef.
A pound of meat requires the animal to be fed several pound (5-7) of grain. So the farmer must produce (or buy) that grain plus there are the costs of looking after the animal.
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It takes a lot more energy, water, labour to produce a pound of meat than a pound of corn. It takes pounds of corn and water to feed just one pig.
it takes 1 pound of grain to make 1 pound of bread.it takes 20 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef.
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According to Producer's Rice Mills, there are over 29,000 grains in a pound of long grain white rice. You'd have slightly fewer for long grain brown, as each grain retains its bran layer. Short grain rice is 3-4 times shorter, so you'd have 3-4 times as many in a pound.
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A 'grain' is defined as 1/7000 of one pound. A 140 grain bullet weighs 1/50 pound or about 1/3 ounce. A grain is also about 1/15 of a gram. Grain weights are used most often for bullets and powder weighing under one ounce.
Find the local price per pound for the kind of grain you wish to buy, then multiply by 100,000.
Beef, especially that from a dairy steer. It takes around 9 lbs of grain to produce a pound of ready-to-eat beef, on average. With a dairy steer though, it may take more than that likely 12 to 15 lbs of grain to make a lb of beef from a Jersey or Holstein steer, a lot more than that needed for a Charolais or Angus-Charolais-cross steer. As for water, that's a bit more variable since there's a lot of factors to take into account before an actual measure of how many lbs, or gallons or liters or whatever of water it takes to make one pound of ready-to-eat beef.
Rice is typically cheaper then pizza. You can buy a 5 pound bag of rice for under $8.00.
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