NASHVILLE, TN – USDA’s latest Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production report shows corn use for alcohol and other products totaled 498 million bushels in June 2025. That’s slightly up from May, but still a bit below June 2024 levels. Most of the corn—92.1 percent—went toward alcohol production, with 448 million bushels specifically used for fuel alcohol. That number is up 1 percent from May and nearly unchanged from a year ago.
Corn used for beverage alcohol fell to 3.06 million bushels, a 20 percent drop from the previous month and a 24 percent decline from June 2024. Dry mill and wet mill production remained steady, with dry milling accounting for 92 percent of fuel alcohol use.
On the co-products side, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) reached 1.88 million tons, up 6 percent from May and 4 percent above year-ago levels. Distillers wet grains (65 percent or more moisture) fell 2 percent from May but were 8 percent higher than last June.
Wet mill corn gluten feed production came in at nearly 250,000 tons, down 6 percent from May. Production of wet corn gluten feed with 40–60 percent moisture also fell by 7 percent from the previous month.