30% of the corn grown in Iowa is used for ethanol production and the other 70% go's into livestock production in either dairy, hogs or feedlots. Today I visited an ethanol plant that uses Tims Corn and a 1000 head Dairy that uses three of corns products. Green chop, corn grain and brewers grain from the ethanol plant.
The ethanol plant was great. Very little of the energy from the process is wasted and Two products are produced, ethanol which is carted by rail to the east coast and brewers grain which is used both locally and exported to China as feed stuff. It's important to the ethanol plants that the brewers grain goes back into the food chain as it negate much of the image that the corn is being taken away from the food production.
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