January 30, 2023
BY Erin Voegele
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The USDA maintained its outlook for 2024-’25 corn use in ethanol production in its latest World Agricultural and Supply Estimates report, released Oct. 11. The estimate for 2023-’24 corn use in ethanol production was revised up.
U.S. corn production is currently forecast at 15.2 billion bushels, up slightly when compared to last month’s outlook, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s latest Crop Production report, released Oct. 11.
EPM has collected information on 120 U.S. ethanol plants that are capturing their fermentation carbon dioxide—or intend to—for one of three principal purposes: conventional utilization, sequestration or next-gen transformation.
U.S. fuel ethanol production was up more than 3% the week ending Oct. 4, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Oct. 9. Ethanol stocks were down nearly 6% and exports were up 38%.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration increased its forecast for 2025 fuel ethanol production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Oct. 8. The outlook for 2024 ethanol production was maintained.