Finnish Supply Destruction Commodity supply and demand forecasts almost uniformly forecast too much of the former and not enough of the latter. A similar situation in the past gave birth to the biofuels policy that turns agricultural commodities into transportation fuel. Unfortunately, USDA also forecasts less of that in the future, putting an additional 25 million bushels of corn back into the supply side of the ledger in 2018/19. Now Finland is offering a tiny bit of help by mandating that 30 percent of its transportation fuel be biofuel by 2030. Given the small size of the market and the decade-plus timeline, there is nothing in Finland that will finish off much of the excess feedstock now burdening the market.   Slaying the Nons...

TAGS – Biofuels, Europe, North America