Bioenergy Market News Reports Now Available
WASHINGTON - Producers, consumers and distributors of products can access crucialdata through the Bioenergy Market News Reports published by the
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
The primary function of these Market News Reports is to compile
and disseminate information that will aid producers, consumers and
distributors in the sale and purchase of their products nationally
and internationally. Several Market News Reports offer information
on bioenergy products.
The class=”glossary-term”>Ethanol reports include data for six
regions (Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and the
Eastern Corn Belt). Each report publishes daily corn bids, daily
distiller grain prices and a weekly ethanol price.
The Weekly Ethanol Summary combines all ethanol reports into a
summary report. Futures prices for CME corn and ethanol, as well as
NYMEX natural
gas and class=”glossary-term”>reformulated gasoline can be found on
this report. Graphs depicting prices for Iowa ethanol price, Iowa
distiller grain price and the price ratio in Iowa between distiller
grain and corn are shown.
The National Weekly Ag Energy Roundup includes prices for
commodities that can be used to make energy, such as
class=”glossary-term”>soybean oil, corn oil,
class=”glossary-term”>tallow and greases. The prices of ethanol
and class=”glossary-term”>biodiesel are also reported.
Additionally, CME and NYMEX futures prices are reported for
ethanol, soybean oil, crude oil, reformulated gasoline and natural
gas. Graphs are included to show price relationships for several
commodities.
There are three reports that report Ethanol Corn and Products
Processing Values (Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois). These reports
compare the price that ethanol plants pay for corn in their state
to the value the ethanol plant receives from the outputs of ethanol
and distiller grains.
For more information about Bioenergy Market News Reports,
contact Jim Bernau at (515) 284-4460 or
target=”_blank”>Jim.Bernau@ams.usda.gov
title=”www.marketnews.usda.gov”>http://www.marketnews.usda.gov/
The monthly class=”glossary-term”>Biofuel Transportation Data
class=”glossary-term”>base contains public rail tariff rates
and fuel surcharges for the major ethanol and
class=”glossary-term”>DDGS origins and destinations in the
United States. Class I railroads periodically update ethanol and
rates and fuel surcharges on their individual websites for public
use.
The database provides an easy to use, central location for
producers and shippers to find current tariff rates plus fuel
surcharges per car. The CME links customers to the database as a
way to help calculate shipping charges to destination points for
its Dried Distiller’s Grain Futures contracts. For more information
on this database, visit:
target=”_blank”
title=”www.ams.usda.gov/ATAgriculturalTransportationHome”
class=”ext”>www.ams.usda.gov/ATAgriculturalTransportationHome.
