Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production ISSN: 2377-3855 Released June 3, 2019, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Highlights March 2019 contained 31 days. April 2019 contained 30 days. Total corn consumed for alcohol and other uses was 493 million bushels in April 2019. Total corn consumption was down slightly from March 2019 and down 1 percent from April 2018. April 2019 usage included 91.3 percent for alcohol and 8.7 percent for other purposes. Corn consumed for beverage alcohol totaled 3.69 million bushels, up 7 percent from March 2019 and up 19 percent from April 2018. Corn for fuel alcohol, at 440 million bushels, was up slightly from March 2019 but down 1 percent from April 2018. Corn consumed in April 2019 for dry milling fuel production and wet milling fuel production was 90.7 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively. Dry mill co-product production of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) was 1.86 million tons during April 2019, up slightly from March 2019 and up 1 percent from April 2018. Distillers wet grains (DWG) 65 percent or more moisture was 1.35 million tons in April 2019, up 1 percent from March 2019 but down 3 percent from April 2018. Wet mill corn gluten feed production was 296,681 tons during April 2019, down 2 percent from March 2019 and down 3 percent from April 2018. Wet corn gluten feed 40 to 60 percent moisture was 253,959 tons in April 2019, up 13 percent from March 2019 but down slightly from April 2018. Dry and Wet Mill, Corn Consumed - United States: April 2019 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose : April 2018 : March 2019 : April 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : 1,000 bushels : Consumed for alcohol production : Beverage alcohol .........................................: 3,096 3,455 3,692 Fuel alcohol .............................................: 445,323 440,054 440,477 Dry mill ...............................................: 405,732 400,937 399,729 Wet mill ...............................................: 39,591 39,117 40,748 Industrial alcohol .......................................: 6,006 7,133 6,260 Consumed for other purposes : Total wet mill products other than fuel ..................: 43,884 42,605 42,730 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dry Mill, Sorghum Consumed - United States: April 2019 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose : April 2018 : March 2019 : April 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : 1,000 cwt : Consumed for alcohol production : Fuel alcohol .............................................: 2,643 5,167 4,418 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dry and Wet Mill, Co-products and Products Produced - United States: April 2019 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Co-products and products : April 2018 : March 2019 : April 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : tons : Dry mill : Condensed distillers solubles (CDS - syrup) ..............: 135,883 115,583 127,703 Corn oil (Corn Distillers Oil - CDO) .....................: 144,813 148,717 150,114 Distillers dried grains (DDG) ............................: 372,741 386,413 376,775 Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) .............: 1,831,598 1,855,975 1,858,305 Distillers wet grains (DWG) 65% or more moisture .........: 1,394,684 1,337,382 1,351,347 Modified distillers wet grains (DWG) 40% to 64% moisture .: 485,841 357,909 364,589 : Wet mill : Corn germ meal ...........................................: 60,089 61,001 69,703 Corn gluten feed .........................................: 304,716 304,047 296,681 Corn gluten meal .........................................: 91,427 88,890 91,364 Wet corn gluten feed 40% to 60% moisture .................: 254,638 224,850 253,959 : Dry and wet mill : Carbon dioxide captured ..................................: 216,215 242,832 223,667 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Statistical Methodology Survey Procedures: Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production is part of the Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR) program. CAIR reports are administered under NASS's Census of Agriculture program. Response to CAIR surveys are required by law (Title 7, U.S. Code). Data are collected from all known mills that produce ethanol. The census universe was determined during operation profile interviews which were completed for each potential facility to identify the presence of ethanol production in 2014. During the operation profile, facilities that met the survey criteria were asked for the nameplate production capacity. The operation profile also documented the manner in which the firm will report. A firm headquarters can report for all milling locations or each location can report separately. In the Dry Mill Producers and Wet Mill Producers survey questionnaires, mills are asked for previous calendar month data on feedstocks consumed, products and co-products produced. Mills are mailed questionnaires with the options of completing the survey by mail or by Electronic Data Reporting (EDR). For surveys not received in a reasonable amount of time, telephone follow-up is conducted. Estimating Procedures: Imputation is done for operations with non-response by using historical data and current data relationships. Data for reporting firms are added to estimates for non-reporting firms to obtain National totals. Revision Policy: Data are revised the following month based on late reports or corrected data. Final figures are published in the annual summary of the following year. Reliability: Approximately 130 reports are received each month which represent about 90 percent of total capacity. Monthly data can vary due to different firms reporting month to month. Survey data are also subject to non-sampling errors such as omissions and mistakes in reporting and in processing the data. While these errors cannot be measured directly, they are minimized by carefully reviewing all reported data for consistency and reasonableness. 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