Survey: Shifts in Iowa corn movement, ethanol growth

Ethanol Producer Magazine March 2009
By Susanne Retka Schill
Web exclusive posted Feb. 5, 2009, at 11:04 a.m. CST

County elevators in Iowa are loosing market share as more corn moves directly to ethanol plants in the state. Two researchers collaborated to find out just how great those changes have been. Chad Hart, Department of Agricultural Economics at Iowa State University, and Tun-Hsiang Yu, Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Tennessee, reported their findings in the paper, titled “Impact of Biofuel Industry Expansion on Grain Utilization and Distribution: Preliminary Results of Iowa Grain and Biofuel Survey.” Hart and Yu presented their research at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta on Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.

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