the markets for the raw commodities they produce. Value-added enterprises, such as ethanol production, have been expanding … of an ethanol production cooperative. The product has the potential to provide these producers with a new and useful risk … management tool to insure against price risks in the markets for corn, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), ethanol, and …

input use and land allocation decisions with ethanol and agricultural commodity markets. Crops can be substitutes or … cropland expansion. The impacts of yield increases for other crops are ambiguous. With a quantity mandate for ethanol, higher …

A model of the corn, soybean, and wheat markets calculates welfare effects of the U.S. ethanol tax credit. Crop yields …

fossil energy and biofuel markets, and a new trend toward corn oil extraction in ethanol plants. At one extreme, one scenario … bottleneck in ethanol demand growth when the energy price is high. Of the remaining two scenarios, one considers a pure market … force driving ethanol demand growth because of the high energy price while the other is a policy-induced shock with removal …

The outlook for U.S. corn markets is inextricably linked to what happens to the U.S. ethanol industry, which depends … prices, and capacity of the ethanol industry. Our results indicate that integration of gasoline and corn markets has … increased corn price volatility and that the passage of the expanded ethanol mandates in the Energy Independence and Security …

cropland quality, as represented by row-crop corn suitability rating index, is about $1.05. Ethanol plants are not found to …

Using pooled regional time-series data and panel data estimation, we quantify the impact of monthly ethanol production … on monthly retail regular gasoline prices. This analysis suggests that the growth in ethanol production has caused retail … negative impact of ethanol on gasoline prices varies considerably across regions. The Midwest region has the biggest impact, at …

growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat, sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for … land resources such as oilseeds. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the United States … for ethanol. Land moves away from major crops and pasture competing for resources with feedstock crops. Because of the …

The ongoing growth of corn-based ethanol production raises some fundamental questions about what impact continued … growth will have on U.S. and world agriculture. Estimates of the long-run potential for ethanol production can be made by … calculating the corn price at which the incentive to expand ethanol production disappears. Under current ethanol tax policy, if …

Based on a transparent analytical model of multiple markets including corn, ethanol, gasoline, and transportation fuel …, this study estimates the welfare changes for consumers and producers resulting from ethanol production and related support …