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The Big River Resources ethanol plant at West Burlington, Iowa, about 120 km southwest of Davenport. (Steven Vaughn photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Trump lifts curbs on E15 gasoline

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, Jarrett Renshaw May 31, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The Trump administration on Friday lifted restrictions on the sale of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, keeping a campaign promise to farmers suffering from the trade war with China but inviting a legal challenge from the oil industry. The announcement allows gasoline stations to sell blends containing up to 15 per

Biofuel or Corn Syrup, gasoline, energy, environmentalist

Comment, Opinion

Comment: Ethanol’s tightening tough spot

Ethanol is facing a shrinking gasoline market

By Alan Guebert May 6, 2019

Ethanol is in a tight spot, according to Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois. On April 12, Irwin published an analysis of today’s ethanol market on the university’s farmdocDAILY website under the workmanlike title of “Implications of Recent Trends in U.S. Gasoline Consumption for Ethanol.” In it Irwin calculated that a

Crops, Markets

ADM’s move to spin off ethanol assets speaks to industry’s woes

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw, P.J. Huffstutter April 26, 2019

New York/Chicago | Reuters — Biofuels pioneer Archer Daniels Midland took another step toward abandoning its pure-play ethanol assets on Friday, the latest sign of the industry’s struggles with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars, thin margins, and overproduction. U.S. law requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline but domestic demand for the biofuel added

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: DDGS market to adjust with E15 move

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 14, 2019

MarketsFarm — The prospect of higher-ethanol gasoline blends year-round in the U.S., and a likely increase in production of the renewable fuel, would also result in more distillers dried grains (DDGS) looking for a home in global livestock feed channels. However, that won’t mean an oversupply of the ethanol byproduct, as feed markets will adjust,

Valero Energy’s ethanol plant at Aurora, S.D., about 90 km north of Sioux Falls. (Valero.com)

Crops

Trump’s EPA unveils plan to pump up ethanol as Big Oil cries foul

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, Jarrett Renshaw March 13, 2019

Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released its proposed rule lifting a summer ban on higher-ethanol blends of gasoline to help farmers, putting the agency on a collision course with Big Oil which has called the move illegal. The proposal to broaden sales of the so-called E15 rule marks the latest flashpoint

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Skyhobo/E+/Getty Images)

Crops

U.S. EPA changed rules to help refiners get biofuel waivers, suit alleges

By GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw March 7, 2019

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators quietly changed the way they assess applications from refineries for waivers from the nation’s biofuels law, making it possible for highly profitable plants to secure lucrative exemptions, according to court documents filed by a biofuels trade group on Thursday. The new documents, part of a lawsuit that began last year,

Crops, Markets

Expanding E15 sales would have limited U.S. market impact, analysts say

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer October 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — The Trump administration’s plan to allow year-round sales of higher-grade corn ethanol would have limited impact on the depressed U.S. ethanol market, with record supplies and prices for the fuel hovering near the lowest in a decade, analysts said. President Donald Trump announced the decision last week ahead of a campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Oct. 9, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Leah Millis)

Crops, Markets

Trump raises ethanol use in gasoline, appeases farmers ahead of elections

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, Jarrett Renshaw October 9, 2018

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump launched an effort on Tuesday to increase ethanol use in the nation’s gasoline pool, delivering a long-sought political victory to the nation’s Farm Belt and angering oil refiners ahead of November’s congressional elections. Trump announced the lifting of a ban on summer sales of gasoline blended with

With farmers in the fields worldwide, many are facing sticker shock over high fuel costs.

News, Other

Farmers worldwide struggle with rising fuel costs

It’s leading some farmers to change their management practices or lock in prices months in advance

By Stephanie Kelly, Tom Polansek July 3, 2018

Farmers worldwide are feeling the pinch as fuel costs rise to near four-year highs just as they plant and harvest their fields, eroding agricultural income already hamstrung by depressed crop prices. The agricultural sector from the United States to Russia, and Brazil to Europe, is seeing profits harmed by the rise in diesel prices. The

Crops

U.S. EPA chief hints he could order more ethanol in fuel

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News June 12, 2018

New York | Reuters — A week after the White House suspended its bid to reform the nation’s biofuels policy to aid oil refiners, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday dangled a tantalizing prospect to Midwest corn farmers, saying the agency has the power to expand sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends.

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Trump lifts curbs on E15 gasoline

Comment: Ethanol’s tightening tough spot

ADM’s move to spin off ethanol assets speaks to industry’s woes

Feed weekly outlook: DDGS market to adjust with E15 move

Trump’s EPA unveils plan to pump up ethanol as Big Oil cries foul

U.S. EPA changed rules to help refiners get biofuel waivers, suit alleges

Expanding E15 sales would have limited U.S. market impact, analysts say

Trump raises ethanol use in gasoline, appeases farmers ahead of elections

Farmers worldwide struggle with rising fuel costs

U.S. EPA chief hints he could order more ethanol in fuel

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