**Exhibit 31.1**

**CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 17 CFR240.15d-14(a)****(SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION)**

I,William R. Pracht, certify that:

1.             I have reviewed this quarterlyreport on Form 10-QSB of East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC;

2.                                     Basedon my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of amaterial fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statementsmade, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.                                     Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial informationincluded in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of East Kansas Agri-Energy,LLC, as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.                                     EastKansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s other certifying officers and I are responsible forestablishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined inExchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC,and have:

a)              Designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC, including itsconsolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b)             Evaluated theeffectiveness of East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s disclosure controls andprocedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectivenessof the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period coveredby this report based on such evaluation; and

c)              Disclosed in thisreport any changes in East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s mostrecent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely tomaterially affect, East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s internal control overfinancial reporting.

5                                        EastKansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, basedon our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, toEast Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s auditors and the audit committee of East KansasAgri-Energy, LLC’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalentfunctions):

a)                                   Allsignificant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely toadversely affect East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s ability to record, process,summarize and report financial information; and

b)                                  Anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees whohave a significant role in East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC’s internal controlsover financial reporting.
| Date: August  11, 2006 | /s/ William R. Pracht                   |
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|                        | President (Principal Executive Officer) |

 

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