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May 17, 2023
Rose Sparks
Chief Financial Officer
FutureFuel Corp.
8235 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 400
St Louis, Missouri 63105
Re:FutureFuel Corp.
Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
Filed March 14, 2023
File No. 001-35103
Dear Rose Sparks:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond.  If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations, page 33
1.We note your loss on derivative instruments the past two years was $24,360 and $10,377,
an increase in significance when compared to the gain of $4,379 in 2020, the loss of
$1,301 in 2019 and the gain of $633 in 2018.  In your discussion of gross profit you
reference "the unfavorable change in the realized and unrealized activity of derivative
instruments which resulted in a reduction in gross profit of $24,360 in 2022, as compared
to a reduction in gross profit in 2021 by $10,377.  The comparative unfavorable change
was primarily from the unprecedented volatility in the NYMEX heating oil futures
market."  You also set forth in your filing (i) that you enter into commodity derivative
instruments to protect your operations from downward movements in commodity prices
and to provide greater certainty of cash flows associated with sales of your commodities,
and (ii) in order to manage price risk caused by market fluctuations in biofuel prices,

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you may enter into exchange traded commodity futures and options contracts.  Please
provide us, and in future filings, more insight, analysis, and explanation into the
following:

•Whether and to the extent your derivatives program is accomplishing its objectives;
•The reasons for the increases in derivative gains/losses recorded in the financial
statements; and
•The cash versus non-cash components of your losses and gains from derivative
instruments and any impact to liquidity and capital resources.
2.Please tell us how you considered Question 100.01 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations, as updated December 13, 2022, in determining
it was appropriate to include an adjustment for the cash portion of the loss/gain on
derivative instruments as part of your non-GAAP adjustment.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            You may contact Christie Wong at 202-551-3684 or Michael Fay, Senior Staff
Accountant, at 202-551-3812 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Industrial Applications and
Services