USDA: Corn use for fuel ethanol at 446 million bushels in May
Summary
The USDA recently released its Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production report for July, reporting that corn use for fuel ethanol production in May was up when compared to the previous month, but down when compared to May 2021. Corn consumed for fuel alcohol production was at 446 million bushels, up 7 percent when compared to the previous month, but down slightly when compared to May 2021. Corn consumed for dry milling fuel production and wet milling fuel production was at 92.4 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively. The USDA withheld the volume of grain sorghum that was consumed for fuel alcohol production in May to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. The agency also withheld data on grain sorghum for April but reported that 115,000 hundredweight (cwt) (6,440 tons) of grain sorghum was used to produce fuel alcohol in May 2021.