USDA Changes Corn Wording After Ethanol Makers Complain
Claimed they weren't getting credit for the corn byproducts fed to livestock
Instead of saying "corn for ethanol" in its monthly report, the U.S. Agriculture Department now spells out the corn is going to produce ethanol and byproducts. A footnote saying byproducts include distillers' grains, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal and corn oil.
The change followed complaints from ethanol makers that they are unfairly blamed for using a large portion of the U.S. corn supply when in fact one-third of that corn is turned into distillers' grains.
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