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Abstract
Feed grains researchers have abundant technical opportunities to select various options for
improvement of nutritional characteristics of feed grains. Choosing between those
opportunities is a difficult issue for research funding organisations. In this paper, efforts to
address the relative economic benefits from the different options for feed grains nutritional
improvement are reported. The economic benefits arising from nutritional improvements in
various feed grains are examined and compared to the benefits from increasing yields of the
feed grains rather than improving their nutritional value. The results of the analysis of these
options are presented in an economic surplus framework that enables the major beneficiaries
and the relative gains for the different feed grains research options to be identified. The
outcome of this analysis provides a basis for establishing priorities for feed grains research.