The Renewable Fuels Association released its 2026 Ethanol Industry Outlook and Pocket Guide at the 31st annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando last week. These publications serve as the go-to source of ethanol industry information, facts, and statistics, and follow the NEC theme of “Ethanol Unleashed.”
The Annual Ethanol Outlook provides the facts and data on ethanol’s benefits, as well as the roadmap for expanding those benefits through the removal of barriers and roadblocks to increased ethanol production and use worldwide. The Outlook also features an updated listing of all U.S. ethanol biorefineries.
RFA Chief Economist Scott Richman says they have been producing the annual Outlook publication since 2001. “RFA is known for providing substantive information to the industry. It helps with the range of stakeholders, both in terms of policymakers, also those in the industry having a common point of reference, but also when we’re talking to the public,” said Richman.
Richman says getting this information in the right hands is especially important right now. “Rural America, farm communities are hurting and these reports frame how important the ethanol industry is to corn and sorghum growers and shed light on where we stand now and how much more the potential is. Fifteen percent ethanol, it wouldn’t happen overnight, but you know, if we get two or three hundred million bushels of additional usage in the near term and could be 2.4 billion bushels of usage in the long term, that would be very important to growers that are suffering with very tight margins right now and would just increase our impact in rural America.”
Learn more in this interview from NEC:
NEC26 interview - Scott Richman, RFA Chief Economist (6:53)