QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
−Removed: We are exposed to various
−Removed: market risks, including changes in commodity prices as discussed below.
−Removed: Market risk is the potential loss arising from adverse changes
−Removed: in market rates and prices.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of business, we may enter into various types of transactions involving financial instruments
−Removed: to manage and reduce the impact of changes in commodity prices.
+Added: We are exposed to various market risks, including
+Added: changes in commodity prices as discussed below.
+Added: Market risk is the potential loss arising from adverse changes in market rates and prices.
+Added: In the ordinary course of business, we may enter into various types of transactions involving financial instruments to manage and reduce
+Added: the impact of changes in commodity prices.
We do not have material exposure to interest rate risk.
−Removed: We do not expect
−Removed: to have any exposure to foreign currency risk as we conduct all of our transactions in U.S.
+Added: We do not expect to have any exposure
+Added: to foreign currency risk as we conduct all of our transactions in U.S.
We produce alcohol and essential ingredients.
−Removed: business is sensitive, in particular, to changes in the prices of ethanol and corn.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of business, we may enter into
−Removed: various types of transactions involving financial instruments to manage and reduce the impact of changes in ethanol and corn prices.
−Removed: do not enter into derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.
+Added: business is sensitive to changes in the prices of ethanol and corn.
+Added: In the ordinary course of business, we may enter into various types
+Added: of transactions involving financial instruments to manage and reduce the impact of changes in ethanol and corn prices.
+Added: We do not enter
+Added: into derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.
We are subject to market risk with respect to ethanol
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carbon intensity;
−Removed: government regulation, including governmental mandates for renewable fuel use;
−Removed: and consumer demand for alternative
−Removed: Our ethanol sales are priced using contracts that are either based on a fixed price or an indexed price tied to a specific market,
−Removed: such as the CBOT or the Oil Price Information Service.
−Removed: Under these fixed-priced arrangements, we are exposed to the risk of a decrease
−Removed: in the market price of ethanol between the time the price is fixed and the time the ethanol is sold.
+Added: government regulation;
+Added: and consumer demand for alternative fuels.
+Added: Our alcohol sales are priced using contracts
+Added: that are either based on a fixed price or an indexed price tied to a specific market, such as the CBOT or the Oil Price Information Service.
+Added: Under these fixed-priced arrangements, we are exposed to risk of a decrease in the market price of ethanol between the time the price
+Added: is fixed and the time the alcohol is sold.
We satisfy our physical corn needs, the principal
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wide fluctuations due to unpredictable factors such as weather conditions, farmer planting decisions, governmental policies with respect
−Removed: to agriculture and international trade, including trade and other sanctions that may be levied against grain producing countries, and
−Removed: global supply and demand.
−Removed: Under the fixed price arrangements, we assume the risk of a decrease in the market price of corn between the
−Removed: time the price is fixed and the time the corn is utilized.
+Added: to agriculture and international trade, and global supply and demand.
+Added: Under the fixed price arrangements, we assume the risk of a decrease
+Added: in the market price of corn between the time the price is fixed and the time the corn is utilized.
Essential ingredients are sensitive to various
−Removed: demand factors such as numbers of livestock on feed, prices for feed alternatives, and supply factors, primarily the production of alcohol
−Removed: co-products by plants and other sources.
+Added: demand factors such as numbers of livestock on feed, prices for feed alternatives, and supply factors, primarily production of ethanol
+Added: co-products by ethanol plants and other sources.
As noted above, we may attempt to reduce the market
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immediately in cost of goods sold.
−Removed: We recognized net gains of $21.2 million and $18.4 million related to the changes in the fair values
−Removed: of these contracts for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: At September 30, 2022, we prepared a sensitivity
−Removed: analysis to estimate our exposure to ethanol and corn costs.
−Removed: Market risk related to these factors was estimated as the potential change
−Removed: in pre-tax income resulting from a hypothetical 10% adverse change in the prices of our expected ethanol and corn volumes.
−Removed: uses average CBOT prices for the year and does not factor in future contracted volumes.
−Removed: The results of this analysis for the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2022, which may differ materially from actual results, are as follows (in millions):
+Added: We recognized net losses of $1.8 million and net gains of $5.3 million related to the changes in the
+Added: fair values of these contracts for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
+Added: We prepared a sensitivity analysis as of March
+Added: 31, 2023 to estimate our exposure to ethanol and corn.
+Added: Market risk related to these factors was estimated as the potential change in pre-tax
+Added: income resulting from a hypothetical 10% adverse change in the prices of our expected ethanol and corn volumes.
+Added: The analysis uses average
+Added: CBOT prices for the year and does not factor in future contracted volumes.
+Added: The results of this analysis for the three months ended March
+Added: 31, 2023, which may differ materially from actual results, are as follows (in millions):
Unit of Measure
+Added: Approximate Adverse
+Added: Change to Pre-Tax
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