Production was down fractionally from last week at 995 thousand barrels per day, but this isn’t unusual.
If you look at our lines, many of the years previously, we’ve seen a reduction in the late March through early May timeframe when many plants are taking some Spring downtime.
We do suspect that as we move towards May and June-July that our ethanol production will increase seasonally, and we are on track to reach USDA current corn use estimate.
Our year-to-date ethanol production is up 9.7% from a year ago, USDA is estimating that corn use will be up 6.8%.