Ontario corn farmers look to boost sales to ethanol industry as E10 draws near

In Canada, Ontario corn farmers are excited about the opportunity to supply more corn for the proposed 10% ethanol blending mandate that will see demand increase by about 500 million liters per year. The province’s ethanol facilities are currently running at nearly 100% of installed capacity, meaning expansion and new facilities will be required, and they’ll need more corn. Currently about 34% of the province’s corn crop is used for ethanol production while about 221 million liters of ethanol are imported annually to reach the 5% mandate in place at the moment.

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