ethanol exports

The National Pork Board recently organized a foreign animal disease exercise to practice and troubleshoot a simulated response to a mock disease outbreak.

U.S. ethanol exports in August saw substantial improvement from the prior month’s slump, expanding 56%. Canada was the top destination for the fifth straight month with imports of 33.9 mg, the largest volume since March, and 42% of the August U.S. ethanol export market.

U.S. ethanol exports slumped 37% in July, the lowest level since October 2013, as former key destinations Brazil, China and India were nearly absent from the market.

As the container shipping crisis cripples U.S. exporters, nearly 300 ag and forest producers in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, to urging immediate action now to remedy the situation.

Global feed production is at an all-time high. In the 2019 Global Feed Survey, Alltech estimates a strong 3% growth to 1.068 billion metric tons of feed produced.