Archive - 2024

posted by Alexandria Jacobs on Monday, April 8, 2024 Happy Spring: Read more on DIS below!

posted by Aaron Gerdts on Monday, April 1, 2024 RIN prices have come down significantly in the last 9 months. To be competitive, biofuel producers need to be able to sell their fuels at the same price as conventional petroleum fuels. Typically, biofuels have higher costs of production than conventional fuels.

posted by Jing Tang on Monday, April 1, 2024 Soybean oil prices increased almost three times more in the summertime of 2021 compared to prices before 2021. Soybean meal price rose back to $493 per ton at the end of 2023, then fell back to $374 per ton in March 2024. Historically, a little over two thirds of the total value of soybean crush products came from soybean meal and the remaining one third came from soybean oil.

posted by Alexandria Jacobs on Friday, March 1, 2024 Happy Leap month everyone! Click the link below to see what the team at DIS has been up to...

posted by Kade Grafel on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 IMPLAN's newest dataset was released at the end of November 2023. This dataset, based on 2022 data, is the most recent snapshot of economic activity by industry at the national, state, and county level.

posted by S. Patricia Batres-Marquez on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Data released this month by USDA-FAS indicates U.S. pork exports were up 8% to 2.32 million metric tons (MT) in the 2023 calendar year compared with last year (see Figure 1). The value of those exports was estimated at $6.79 billion. U.S. pork exports to Mexico, the leading market, reached an all time record volume of 941,477 MT worth $2.05 billion.