Harvesting Energy

Green Plains is a company focused on risk management, operational excellence and safety, and we are energized by a clear purpose: harvest the energy locked up in a single kernel of corn.

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Our Ethanol

Ethanol is a chemical produced by the fermentation of sugars found in grains and other biomass. At capacity, our nine ethanol plants produce a total of approximately 740 million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol annually.

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Marketing and Distribution

We market ethanol in different geographic locations around the U.S. and have built an in-house, fee based marketing business that provides ethanol marketing services to other producers in the ethanol industry.

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Agribusiness

Green Plains Grain is a full service grain and farm supply business, which provides bulk grain, agronomy, grain storage, seed, fertilizer and petroleum products to area producers in Iowa, southwest Minnesota, Nebraska and west Tennessee.

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NASCAR and American Ethanol

American Ethanol teams up with NASCAR to run E15 in all three series: Camping World Truck, Natiowide and Sprint Cup.

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BioProcess Algae

BioProcess Algae LLC is a joint venture between Green Plains, Clarcor Inc. and BioProcess H2O. BioProcess Algae has demonstrated the scalability of the Grower Harvester technology in Phase I to make possible this second phase of the project.

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