Ethanol Plants & Capacities
| City (plant name) | Ethanol Capacity
Million Gallons/year | Corn Million
Bushels Used/year | Start-up
year | New Generation
Co-op Members ** |
|---|
| Marshall (ADM) |
40 |
14.8* |
1988 |
(Public Corp) |
| Morris (DENCO) |
25 |
9.0 |
1991 |
Corporation |
| Winnebago (Corn Plus) |
49 |
17.4 |
1994 |
750 |
| Winthrop (Heartland) |
100 |
37 |
1995 |
692 |
| Benson (CVEC) |
46 |
17 |
1996 |
850 |
| Claremont (Al-Corn) |
38 |
12.6 |
1996 |
354 |
| Bingham Lake (Ethanol2000) |
35 |
13 |
1997 |
241 |
| Buffalo Lake (MN Energy) |
19 |
7.0 |
1997 |
325 |
| Preston (Pro-Corn) |
42 |
16 |
1998 |
159 |
| Luverne (Agri-Energy LLC) |
22 |
8 |
1998 |
197 |
| Little Falls (CMEC) |
22 |
8.1 |
1999 |
820 |
| Albert Lea (Exol/Agri Resources) |
41 |
15.2 |
1999 |
496 |
| Lake Crystal |
56 |
20 |
2005 |
LLC |
| (Granite Falls Energy) |
48 |
18 |
2005 |
LLC |
| Atwater (Bushmills Ethanol) |
49 |
18 |
2005 |
LLC |
| (Heron Lake Bioenergy) |
50 |
18 |
2007 |
LLC |
| Otter Tail (Fergus Falls) |
55 |
20 |
2008 |
LLC |
| Fairmont (Buffalo Lake Energy) |
110 |
40 |
2008 |
LLC |
| Welcome (Valero) |
110 |
40 |
2009 |
Corp |
| Lamberton (Highwater) |
50 |
18 |
2009 |
LLC |
| Guardian Energy, Janesville |
110 |
40 |
2009 |
LLC |
| TOTAL |
1,117 |
406 mm bus. |
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4,880+ members | Processing corn products instead of exporting raw corn doubles the value of each bushel. In addition to fuel ethanol, corn plants can produce over 3,300,000 tons of high protein livestock feed plus other products including: industrial and beverage ethanol, industrial starch, corn oil, sweeteners and carbon dioxide. * The Marshall Plant corn milling capacity is estimated to include an additional 25,000,000 bushels of corn to make starch and sweeteners totaling 40,000,000 bushels for the plant. Therefore, the total estimated industrial corn milling capacity for Minnesota is about 430 million bushels per year." ** Plants organized as New Generation Farmer Co-ops (NGC) may be combined with, converted to or organized as limited liability companies or business structures that are generally designed to: - be built by farmers and local businessmen to process member crops,
- return more cash to farmers than conventional markets would provide,
- be controlled by farmer/local board members so that member profits remain a top priority,
- create a stable source of local jobs and economic development.
The business structure of some plants listed above may have changed in a way that makes it difficult to determine the manner in which the farmer control or other NGC features described above may currently apply to a given plant. In addition, some plants described as LLC’s also employ certain NGC characteristics and have hundreds of farmer members. MDA Contact Christina Connelly, State Program Administrator, Sr.
Christina.Connelly@state.mn.us, 651-201-6220 Ag Marketing & Development Division
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