USDA released its Grain Crushing and Co-Production report today; total ethanol use of corn in May was 460 million bushels, which stands at 104 percent of April but 98 percent from the same period last year. DDGS production was 1.94 million tons. Corn gluten feed production from wet milling was 298,347 tons, which was 102 percent of last year.
Distillers corn oil production also dropped in May, down to 98.6 percent of May 2018, 10.9 percent from January and 12.9 percent from last February. While sorghum use as ethanol feedstock continues to outpace last year’s volumes as it has through 2019. Total ethanol production has been running 1 percent below last year, though for the past 6 weeks, production has equaled or...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
