This report compares corn prices with the value of processing products for Eastern Corn Belt ethanol plants, with comparisons to the previous week and year. This area represents plants in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.
Distillers grains or corn gluten feed are co-products created during the production of ethanol, and can be used as feed for livestock. NASS collaborated with the Nebraska Corn Development, Utilization & Marketing Board, an agency of the State of Nebraska, to conduct a survey of livestock producers in 12 Midwestern States to determine current usage of distillers grains, essential feed characteristics and concerns keeping producers from using distillers grains. The probability based survey ...