**Exhibit 31.1**

**CERTIFICATIONPURSUANT TO 17 CFR 240.15d-14(a)**

**(SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION)**

I, ThomasD. Leitnaker, certify that:

1.                                       Ihave reviewed this annual report on Form 10-KSB 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 the small business issuer,as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.                                       Thesmall business issuer’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)) and internal control over financialreporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for thesmall business issuer, 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 the small business issuer, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

b)             Designed suchinternal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control overfinancial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonableassurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparationof financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generallyaccepted accounting principles;

c)              Evaluated theeffectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and proceduresand presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by thisreport based on such evaluation; and

d)             Disclosed in thisreport any changes in the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s fourth fiscalquarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materiallyaffect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting;and

5.                                      Thesmall business issuer’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, basedon our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to thesmall business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small businessissuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a)                All significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

b)               Any fraud, whetheror not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the small business issuer’s internal controls overfinancial reporting.
| Date:  |   | March 29, 2007 | /s/ Thomas D. Leitnaker                                                                                      |   |
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|   |   |           | Thomas D. Leitnaker, Chief Financial   Officer and Controller   (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |

 

 

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