Corn and Ethanol Prices

Question

I’ve been trying to find price information for corn and ethanol and I seem to be getting close but coming up flat…would appreciate any advice from those who work with these types of stats more than I do! Ideally, I’m looking for prices (versus indices, but I’ll take those too if that’s all that’s available) on a monthly basis for the past 10 years or so.

Answer



I am still looking into the ethanol prices, but for corn you may want to look at CANSIM Table 002-0043:

"Farm product prices, crops and livestock, monthly (dollars per metric tonne unless otherwise noted)
(254 series)"

Let me know if this table does not provide you with the data you need for corn.

Also, the publication "Cereals and Oilseeds Review" (22-007-XIB) provides corn prices per ton on a monthly basis, but it doesn't go back 10 years:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=22-007-X

It should be noted that on many of the other CANSIM tables I found (such as Table 001-0010), there was a footnote stating that "Average farm price and total farm value were discontinued in 1984". CANSIM Table 002-0043 was the only relevant table I found that did not contain this footnote.

I will continue to look into the ethanol price question and get back to you.

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I was unable to find any data on ethanol prices, so I checked with the appropriate divisions to see if any was available through custom requests. The divisions confirmed that Statistics Canada does not produce any data on ethanol prices.