Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production ISSN: 2377-3855 Released February 1, 2017, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Highlights November 2016 contained 30 days. December 2016 contained 31 days. Total corn consumed for alcohol and other uses was 529 million bushels in December 2016, up 5 percent from December 2015. December 2016 usage included 91.8 percent for alcohol and 8.2 percent for other purposes. Corn total corn consumed for beverage alcohol totaled 2.60 million bushels, down 23 percent from November 2016 and down 8 percent from December 2015. Corn for fuel alcohol, at 477 million bushels, was up 6 percent from November 2016 and up 6 percent from December 2015. Corn consumed in December 2016 for dry milling fuel production and wet milling fuel production was 89.7 percent and 10.3 percent respectively. Dry mill co-product production of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) was 2.10 million tons during December 2016, up 5 percent from November 2016 and up 8 percent from December 2015. Distillers wet grains (DWG) 65 percent or more moisture was 1.43 million tons in December 2016, up 12 percent from November 2016 and up 2 percent from December 2015. Wet mill corn gluten feed production was 349 thousand tons during December 2016, up 13 percent from November 2016 and up 3 percent from December 2015. Wet corn gluten feed 40 to 60 percent moisture was 279 thousand tons in December 2016, down 15 percent from November 2016 and down 9 percent from December 2015. Dry and Wet Mill, Corn Consumed - United States: December 2016 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose : December 2015 : November 2016 : December 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : 1,000 bushels : Consumed for alcohol production : Beverage alcohol .........................................: 2,807 3,361 2,595 Fuel alcohol .............................................: 451,306 451,660 476,934 Dry mill ...............................................: 401,242 407,479 427,830 Wet mill ...............................................: 50,064 44,181 49,104 Industrial alcohol .......................................: 6,479 6,489 6,108 Consumed for other purposes : Total wet mill products other than fuel ..................: 41,724 (D) 43,272 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. Dry Mill, Sorghum Consumed - United States: December 2016 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose : December 2015 : November 2016 : December 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : 1,000 cwt : Consumed for alcohol production : Fuel alcohol .............................................: 7,616 4,914 5,422 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dry and Wet Mill, Co-products and Products Produced - United States: December 2016 with Comparisons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Co-products and products : December 2015 : November 2016 : December 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : tons : Dry mill : Condensed distillers solubles (CDS - syrup) ..............: 134,196 126,968 138,747 Corn oil (Corn Distillers Oil - CDO) .....................: 130,652 147,336 143,942 Distillers dried grains (DDG) ............................: 423,632 423,892 442,824 Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) .............: 1,941,708 1,995,252 2,096,513 Distillers wet grains (DWG) 65% or more moisture .........: 1,398,280 1,277,248 1,428,635 Modified distillers wet grains (DWG) 40% to 64% moisture .: 442,448 389,038 434,337 : Wet mill : Corn germ meal ...........................................: 69,669 63,635 63,600 Corn gluten feed .........................................: 340,460 309,305 349,226 Corn gluten meal .........................................: 88,921 84,092 89,092 Corn oil .................................................: 57,578 49,393 58,248 Wet corn gluten feed 40% to 60% moisture .................: 307,874 326,550 279,044 : Dry and wet mill : Carbon dioxide captured ..................................: 211,352 213,244 201,534 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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