Farmers show keen interest in harvesting cobs

AgriNews
By Jean Caspers-Simmet
Date Modified: 11/12/2009 8:49 AM

EMMETSBURG, Iowa -- Cellulosic ethanol is a reality and POET will produce it at its Project LIBERTY plant at Emmetsburg by 2011.

"We're making cellulosic ethanol today, and we're making it in a manner that is going to be profitable," said POET CEO Jeff Broin, as he showed slides of POET's pilot-cellulosic plant in Scotland, S.D., at last week's Project LIBERTY field day at Emmetsburg. "Two years ago, I would have told you that making cellulosic ethanol was a long shot, but today we've made enough progress that this process is a reality."

Broin urged Emmetsburg farmers to sign contracts to deliver cobs to the plant.

"We need you to deliver the biomass," Broin said. "You are an integral part of the process. The sooner we get everyone in Emmetsburg collecting cobs, the sooner we'll have this plant operating."

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