Strong ethanol production continues: Last week, daily ethanol production averaged just over 1.5 million barrels per day, maintaining the previous week’s steep increase in volume. Use also held steady week over week, with blenders and refiners utilizing 948,000 bpd, up 2 percent from a [...]
U.S. sweetener consumption trends continued through 2016, as shown by government data. While per-capita intake of corn sweeteners continued falling, sugar intake strengthened further, helping keep total consumption of caloric sweeteners from declining as precipitously as it did in the 2000s. Posted by: [...]
Corn exports seesaw back under 1.0 MMT: Net 2016/17 corn export sales for the week of Aug. 3 were 52,000 MT. Outstanding new-crop export sales totaled 5.07 MMT, down 44 percent from last season to date, a reason USDA lowered projected 2017/18 exports to [...]
Mexico’s 2017/18 sugar production is projected to bounce from 2016/17 production of 5.95 million metric tons (MMT). High sugar prices usually encourage investment in fields from cane growers, upping the use of herbicides and fertilizers to boost crop potential. We are several weeks into [...]
