U.S. RFS Volumes The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing the EPA’s proposed rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for establishing the mandated volumes of biofuel use in 2018. Under that preliminary proposal, the agency called for 19.24 billion gallons of renewable fuel: 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuel (e.g., primarily corn ethanol) and 4.24 billion gallons (ethanol equivalent) of advanced biofuel, including 238 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel and 2.1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel. This has generated 236,370 comments, and the final rule is required by statute to be release by 30 November. Given the Department of Commerce’s (DoC’s) initial ruling in August calling fo...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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