USDA says doesn’t expect much more ethanol production through 2023

In Washington, the USDA has released its long-term projections through 2023 where it says that limited additional growth is projected for ethanol production, with increases much smaller than occurred in 2000-2010.  Nonetheless, high levels of domestic corn-based ethanol production continue over the next decade, with about 35 percent of total corn use projected to go to ethanol production,

It also says the 10-percent ethanol “blend wall” and projected declines in overall gasoline consumption in the United States are assumed to significantly slow any expected expansion in ethanol production over the next decade.  Most gasoline in the United States continues to be a 10‑percent ethanol blend (E10).  Infrastructural and other constraints severely limit growth in the E15 (15-percent ethanol blend) market. The E85 (85‑percent ethanol blend) market, while growing, remains very small.