Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

Historical Biodiesel Operating Margins

Historical Biodiesel Operating Margins
Resource link: https://www.card.iastate.edu/tools/operating-margins/?b=biodiesel

CARD is tracking biodiesel returns over operating costs based on a typical continuous flow plant that uses soybean oil as feedstock for biodiesel production. Given soybean oil and biodiesel prices for Iowa reported weekly by the Agricultural Marketing Service, and methanol prices reported monthly by Methanex, we have computed the biodiesel operating returns from April 13, 2007, to the present.