date:Mar 25, 2013
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The farmers flew twice to Europe to tour beet-based biofuel facilities. This month, Mendota Bioenergy LLC - the company formed by the cooperative - received a grant to build the demo plant, which will turn about 250 acres of beets into 285,000 gallons of ethanol per year.
If it's successful, a commercial bio-refinery would be built in Mendota, capable of producing 40 million gallons of ethanol annually. The bio-refinery, to debut in 2016, would put a total of about 80 beet growers and 35,