Perhaps no commodity has felt the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic more than ethanol, and thus corn, as gasoline usage declined dramatically during the stay at home restrictions took effect.
Like most of you, I’m a bit tired of all the less-than-positive news surrounding agriculture these days. While we’re obliged to report on what’s happening — good or bad — that’s impacting farm equipment sales, we can still dig around for a bit of good news wherever we can find it.
While the future of ethanol is facing an uncertain future as the political battles about its usefulness continue, last year most U.S. ethanol producers were swimming in profits like they have never experienced.
National Pork Producers Council is very concerned with the effect on America’s pork producers of raising to 15% the amount of corn ethanol that can be blended into gasoline.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at President Trump's tariff reduction on ag equipment, the latest dealer sales forecasts, and how high input costs are keeping farmer sentiment down.
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