Ethanol exports could double this year

Des Moines Register
11:34 AM, Mar. 3, 2011
Written by Dan Piller

U.S. ethanol has found stronger markets through late 2010 and early this year, and chief executive officer Todd Becker of Green Plains Energy of Omaha said he thinks U.S. ethanol exports could double this year.

“We’ve seen expressions of interest from Brazil, where the sugar market is going to make it difficult for them to meet their domestic demand,” said Becker, whose company operates plants at Shenandoah, Superior and Lakota and other ethanol production facilities in Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska and Tennessee.

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