Cargill Opens Iowa Corn Wet Mill Ethanol Facility

FORT DODGE, IowaCargill has begun operating its corn wet mill ethanol plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Cargill purchased the idled facility from Tate & Lyle in 2011.

"We are excited to be operational in Fort Dodge," said Al Viaene, Fort Dodge facility manager, Cargill Corn Milling North America. "When full production capacity is reached, the plant will consume 150,000 bushels of corn a day and turn out five products including dextrose, ethanol and SweetBran feed for cattle."

The corn wet mill ethanol plant will provide the base load corn grind for the campus, and will also support additional business growth in the coming years. When completed, Fort Dodge will be a bio-refinery campus that will produce ethanol and other bio-based products.

Earlier this year, Cargill began construction of a new $200 million sunflower oil crush plant in the Volgograd region of southern Russia. The state-of-the-art facility is expected to be operational in time for the 2015 harvest and will be able to  process up to 640,000 tons of sunflower seeds per year.