"Corn futures traded with 1 to 3 ½ cent gains across the front months on Wednesday. The CmdtyView national average cash corn price is down a up ¾ cent to $3.96 1/2. With just 3 days left for price discovery for the spring base price for crop insurance, December corn has averaged $4.60 this month. That would be down a dime from last year. EIA data from this morning showed a total of 1.113 million barrels per day of ethanol produced in the week of 2/20, down just 5,000 bpd from the week prior. Ethanol stocks were up 58,000 barrels to 25.646 million barrels. Ethanol stocks slipped 36,000 bpd to 141,000 bpd, as refiner inputs were steady at 866,000 bpd,” according to BarChart.