Ethanol Policy Changes May Not Ease Pressure on Sugar Sector Immediately Changes in ethanol prices, including that of B-Heavy molasses as an input for making the fuel, do not mean that India will become self-sufficient in supplies and fulfil the demand of the Ethanol Blending Program (EBP). Furthermore, not all B-Heavy molasses will be used for this purpose. After the new biofuels policy was released, the government of India (GOI) also raised the price of ethanol made from C-molasses to $2.394/gallon (+6.97 percent), and the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) will buy ethnaol produced from B Heavy mloasses at $2.60/gallon in sugar year 2018/19 (November-October). While increasing ethanol prices is a good move and should incentivize domestic pr...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.