May 30, 2023
BY Erin Voegele
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A group of some of the largest shrimp producers in Ecuador recently attended the Distillers Grains Technology Council's Distillers Symposium in Iowa with the USGC. The event provided an overview of the U.S. distillers’ industry.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced sugarcane processing and ethanol production were both up during the second half of August. Ethanol sales for the full month were up more than 9 percent from last year.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office awarded $18.6 million in funding to eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce GHG emissions.
The USDA maintained its forecast for 2023-’24 corn use in ethanol but reduce its estimate for 2022-’23 corn use in ethanol in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, released Sept. 12.
The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service predicts corn production for 2023 will reach 15.1 billion bushels, up 10 percent from last year, according to the agency’s latest Crop Production report, released Sept. 12.