Ethanol

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Ethanol plant near Mitchell to celebrate decade of operation
As a part of its most recent marketing efforts, NASCAR released a promotional video professing its love for American ethanol.
A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.
Bernie Sanders’ admiration for corn-based fuel is winning him some praise in unusual places.
The report says farmers have been plowing under conservation land to plant more corn for ethanol, harming the environment.
Ethanol gained for a second day on speculation that increased demand for gasoline will spur consumption of the biofuel.
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This year, USDA expects 4.9 billion bushels of corn to be used by the ethanol industry.
Corn demand from ethanol is expected to drop by 75 million bushels over the next two years.
Ethanol usage for corn is more than double what we export, and that usage can be turned off as easily as a light switch.
Redesigned corn improves ethanol efficiency.
Commodity exchange amends proposal for new limits to go further than originally proposed.
Eliminating the ethanol mandate and tax credit would decrease ethanol production, says an Iowa State University economist .
North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, will be resurveyed.
If the ethanol subsidy is eliminated as some in Congress are calling for, corn stocks-to-use could increase, potentially putting modest pressure on corn prices.
Corn planting has started, cotton is pacing ahead of normal and winter wheat conditions continue to slide.
President Donald Trump is considering visiting an ethanol refinery in Iowa in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan meant to expand the U.S. market for corn-based ethanol and place trading restrictions on credits that refiners use to prove they are using biofuel.
Ethanol use in the United States last year fell for the first time since 1998, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.
Brazil’s production of corn-based ethanol is set to exceed the 1-billion liter mark for the first time ever. That’s still just a small fraction of the South American nation’s 31-billion liter biofuel market,
Here’s the latest from the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates:
China drove a lot of the recent demand for sorghum, driving premiums as high as 20% above corn at times.
The small grain makes a comeback as an ethanol feedstock.
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Big questions remain over how a Joe Biden administration might administer the nation’s biofuel law, the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and the stakes are high for both the farming and oil refining industries.
Understand the intersection of corn and fuel demand.
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