Omaha-based Green Plains said the commodity market conditions were responsible, including an oversaturated ethanol market.

In a notice filed with the state Department of Employment and Economic Development, the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Fairmont said they temporarily laid off its 55 employees on January 17 due to ...

Canada-based Greenfield Global purchased the former Corn Plus plant in Winnebago in the fall of 2020 and resumed operations ...

Minnesota utility regulators on Thursday unanimously approved what would be the state’s first carbon dioxide pipeline, stretching 28 rural miles from an ethanol plant near Fergus Falls to the ...

The study found producing one liter of ethanol in Minnesota requires 19 liters of water, compared to 2,100 liters of water needed in California. Producing ethanol in Minnesota and other Midwestern ...

Gopher State Ethanol’s St. Paul plant, the license for which expired in April, continues to operate while the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency considers its renewal application. Many nearby ...

on the technology and type of plants used. The University of Minnesota has released a study on the benefits of three types of fuels: gasoline, corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol.

ethanol prices follow energy prices, which have dropped to the January lows. This has pulled plant margins well off the record levels seen just last fall and idled plants in Iowa and Minnesota.