Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) for conventional ethanol have been on a crazy bullish ride, going from 5 cents in December to 45 cents in February. They have now peaked above $1.05. That's a valuable market given the 13.8 billion gallons of conventional ethanol mandated under the proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).RINs are the 38-digit tracking mechanism for ethanol compliance. A RIN is generated when ethanol is produced, but it can be separated by the obligated parties (refiners and blenders) and sold on a secondary market to meet compliance with ethanol blending requirements even when physical ethanol is short. In any given year, 20 percent of RINs can be carried forward for future year compliance.So, that brings us to...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.