Poor corn yields near ethanol plant in Laddonia, Missouri
10/19/2023 4:58:43 PM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Business & Industry
Energy
Relief, Response & Restrictions
AFFECTED AREAS:
Audrain County, MO
Laddonia, MO
Boone County, MO
Callaway County, MO
Lincoln County, MO
Silex, MO
Monroe County, MO
Montgomery County, MO
Pike County, MO
Ralls County, MO
Randolph County, MO
Start Date: 10/13/2023
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An ethanol plant in Laddonia needed feedstocks because the yield of the corn grown in the vicinity of the plant was about 50% of normal, due to drought. A lot of corn had already been transported to the plant from other parts of Missouri.
For a time, the Laddonia ethanol plant was offering 60 cents more than grain elevators along the Mississippi River at St. Louis. This was a highly unusual marketing strategy to get farmers to sell their corn to the plant rather than elsewhere.
Brownfield Ag News (Jefferson City, Mo.), Oct 13, 2023
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