{"id":16949,"date":"2013-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130829-08n"},"modified":"2013-08-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:00:00","slug":"cheap-corn-deters-buyers-in-u-s-sugar-for-ethanol-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cheap-corn-deters-buyers-in-u-s-sugar-for-ethanol-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Corn Deters Buyers in U.S. Sugar-for-Ethanol Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A glut of corn has damped interest by biofuel makers in a U.S. government program to sell surplus sugar for ethanol, potentially decreasing its effectiveness in propping up sugar prices.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the U.S. harvest of corn, the nation\u2019s biggest crop and the source of most of its ethanol, expected to set a record this year, ethanol producers don\u2019t see sugar as a competitive substitute, said Todd Becker, chief executive officer of the Omaha, Nebraska-based Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. (GPRE), the fourth-largest maker of ethanol in the U.S., which decided not to participate.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-29\/cheap-corn-deters-buyers-in-u-s-sugar-for-ethanol-plan.html\" >www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-29\/cheap-corn-deters-buyers-in-u-s-sugar-for-ethanol-plan.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: sweetener, biofuel, feedstock flexibility, record surplus, raw sugar, sugar prices, monitor bidding, U.S. energy law, Renewable Fuels Standard<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A glut of corn has damped interest by biofuel makers in a U.S. government program to sell surplus sugar for ethanol, potentially decreasing its effectiveness<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[196,5314,2418,8400],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-archer-daniels-midland-company-adm","supplier-green-plains-renewable-energy-inc","supplier-poet-llc","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}