What we're making is whiskey. It's serious business, too. You have to account for every drop you produce. The new industry has some advantages. Bad news for farmers, and ethanol makers, too.
Less starch means less alcohol.
The bunker will be empty by the time the next harvest starts. Now, the feedlot imports the high-quality feed from Minnesota ethanol plants. As a result, local cattle feeders are used to the wet feed, and knew what to expect when they heard about the proposed plant. Since the ethanol plant is being built next to the feedlot, there's no need to dry down the feed for storage or shipping, cutting costs further. For now, the official headquarters of Siouxland Energy is on Punt's desktop, somewhere between the paperclips and the picture of his family.