U.S. feed grain supplies for 2013/14 are projected lower with reduced production estimated for corn and sorghum. Harvested area for corn is raised 436,000 acres, but the estimated yield is lowered 1.6 bushels per acre to 158.8, reducing ...
Tags: Corn, Projected Corn, Corn Use for 2013/14
US Midwest ethanol stocks for the reporting week ended January 3 rose 249,000 barrels to 5.992 million barrels, the highest level in more than eight months, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. Specifically, US Midwest ...
A 20% drop in the price of distiller dried grains, or DDG, after top consumer China turned away two shipments that may contain unapproved genetically modified corn strains are "clearly a negative" for US ethanol producers which rely on the ...
Since late last summer, corn prices have fallen dramatically, but distillers grain prices have not. "While corn prices at South Dakota ethanol plants have dropped $1.50 per bushel since August 2, dried distillers grains plus solubles ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Grain
The transition to lower prices is occurring differently for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Corn and wheat prices have come under the most pressure due to large U.S. and/or world crops in 2013. Soybean prices have remained higher due to strong ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced that together with DONG Energy (Denmark) it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale. The combined ...
Much has happened in 2013 for the ethanol-producing world: taking a look at new sources for ethanol, an inaccurate story instigating Twitter reaction, and markets looking to ethanol as both a worry and a possible helper to the corn ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Soybeans closed higher Friday. DTN cites buying late in the session, the result of USDA's bullish export sales figures for soybeans. That may have been even more bullish, except for a general distrust of USDA's estimates, and of China's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn, Soybean
Beef cattle nutrition, breeding and bedding were among the subjects NDSU researchers studied in 2013. Beef cattle diets, breeding systems, drylot vs. pasture cow-calf production, forage digestibility enhancements, grazing and effects of ...
Tags: Beef cattle, beef cows
Corn and soybeans were up; cotton was mixed; and wheat was down for the week. As the Christmas season quickly approaches trading volume has reduced substantially with the exception of soybeans which have high volumes when accounting for ...
Tags: Crop Comments
Italian firm plans to build world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant in China Commercial manufacture of cellulosic bioethanol from agricultural residue is expected to be given further impetus after commercial production begins in China ...
Tags: Agricultural Waste, Energy
Pentair announced that it received an Aquatech Innovation Award for the Memthane Anaerobic Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR), a joint innovation between Pentair and Veolia Biothane. Aquatech Amsterdam is the world s top trade exhibition for ...
Tags: Pentair, innovation, Amsterdam, award
The estimated weekly production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant fell 7.81 cents, or 11.23%, this week to an 11-week low of 61.7 cents/gal, according to a Platts estimate based on a review of data. The margin is at ...
Tags: Midwest Ethanol, Chemicals
Monthly physical ethanol and advanced biofuel production in the US both declined in September from the month before, according to Environmental Protection Agency data released Thursday. Physical ethanol production -- which the EPA puts in ...
US corn and soybean oil futures on the Chicago Board of Trade and RIN prices were trending lower Friday morning amid reports that the US Environmental Protection Agency would lower its biofuels blending requirements for 2014. December ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean Oil