# Increasing Global Biofuel Demand Presents Domestic Opportunities

> A USDA Economic Research Service report says 26 other countries plus the US and Brazil and the EU have ethanol blending mandates, and global ethanol output has reached 27 billion gallons. It projects the largest ethanol-producing countries will need over 6.9 billion gallons of net imports by 2021, and the US supplies 85 percent of world DDGS.

- Date: 2017-10-23 · published 2017-10-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Global · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/68570-increasing-global-biofuel-demand-presents-domestic-opportunities
- Commodities: [DDGS](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DDGS.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Growing foreign blending demand supports future US ethanol and DDGS export volumes, which could firm co-product prices over the longer term.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲
- DDGS: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-12-11 | [Chinese demand feeds feed price increases](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49769-chinese-demand-feeds-feed-price-increases.md) | +1.9% | +11.2% |
| CORN | 2021-12-16 | [Global poultry demand up, but supply pressures stay in '22: Rabobank](https://feedsoft.ai/events/43769-global-poultry-demand-up-but-supply-pressures-stay-in-22-rabobank.md) | -2.7% | +0.4% |
| CORN | 2025-04-11 | [Brazil’s poultry industry surges amid rising global demand - USDA FAS
						 \| The Poultry Site](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25289-brazil-s-poultry-industry-surges-amid-rising-global-demand-usda-fas-the-poultry.md) | +1.7% | -4.0% |
| CORN | 2021-04-05 | [FAPRI predicts increased demand for E15, higher ethanol exports - Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47596-fapri-predicts-increased-demand-for-e15-higher-ethanol-exports-kentucky-clean.md) | +0.4% | +22.0% |
| CORN | 2025-07-14 | [USDA forecasts lower corn supplies, higher biofuel demand in latest outlook \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23712-usda-forecasts-lower-corn-supplies-higher-biofuel-demand-in-latest-outlook-feed.md) | +0.9% | -1.2% |

## Sources

- mnbiofuels.org: https://mnbiofuels.org/media-mba/blog/item/2079:increasing-global-biofuel-demand-presents-domestic-opportunities

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