date:Nov 21, 2012
h the gasoline they produce. Next year, the blending requirement increases to 13.8 billion gallons. Corn is the primary feedstock of ethanol, and 5.5 billion bushels of U.S. corn were used for that purpose in 2011-2012.
Roughly 40% of the corn that's produced in this country is used in ethanol, although some of it is later used as distillers grain for livestock feed, Abbott says. That's up from about 10-12% five years ago. The amount of corn that makes up the increase is more than we export.
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