-- Ethanol makers will use 5.6 billion bushels of corn in the 2025-2026 marketing year that started on Sept. 1, the US Department of Agriculture forecast in a monthly report Thursday.
That's unchanged from the March outlook for 5.6 billion bushels.
Total US corn use for 2025/26 is forecast at 16.47 billion bushels. That's equal to last month's outlook.
Biodiesel makers will use 14 billion pounds of soybean oil during the 2025-2026 marketing year, which began Oct. 1. That's unchanged from the March outlook, and higher than the 11.8 billion pounds used in the 2024/2025 marketing year.
The USDA estimated US soybean oil 2025/2026 ending stocks at 1.84 billion pounds, compared with 1.78 billion in March.