Last week, EPA released the final required volume obligations (RVOs) for 2023 through 2025; below is a summary of the final volumes compared to the proposed volumes published by EPA in December 2022. In short, 2023 volumes were mostly bumped up while 2024 and 2025 were mostly trimmed – except for biomass-based diesel. The 2023 RVO for biomass-based diesel remained the same as the proposal but is up a little more than 2 percent above the 2022 RVO; the 2024 RVO is up 5 percent over the proposal and the 2025 is up more than 13 percent over the proposed RVO. However, the industry believes EPA undershot new capacity coming online which could have a ripple effect of further delaying new renewable diesel expansion.
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What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
