Ethanol projects receive Colorado ACRE grants

Ethanol Producer Magazine
January 2009
By Ryan C. Christiansen
Web exclusive posted Jan. 8, 2009, at 10:40 a.m. CST

The Colorado Agricultural Value Added Development Board of the Colorado Department of Agriculture has awarded $200,000 in Advancing Colorado’s Renewable Energy (ACRE) grants to organizations for ethanol-related projects.

Feedlot Biofuel LLC of Wichita, Kan., received $25,000 to assess the feasibility of establishing ethanol plants at feedlots in east-central and southeastern Colorado. According to Bowe Wingerd, manager of Feedlot Biofuel, the company has designed an ethanol plant which has been optimized to produce wet distillers grains with solubles that caters to the nutritional needs of cattle.

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