Poet seeks farmer support for project

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: March 23, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

DES MOINES (AP) - Ethanol maker Poet wants Iowa farmers to hand over their corn cobs, and lots of them.

Three years from now, the nation's top ethanol producer hopes to use its plant in Emmetsburg to become one of the first refiners to produce cellulosic ethanol on a large scale.

But first Poet needs to convince area farmers to devote an estimated 270,000 acres to corn growing. Otherwise, the company won't have enough cobs to supply its $200 million Project Liberty cellulosic project.

"That's pretty much all of two counties'corn acres," said Craig Brownlee, a farmer and investor in the plant ...

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