Green Plains

Green Plains, Inc. engages in the production of fuel-grade ethanol and corn oil, the provision of grain handling, and storage commodity marketing and distribution services. The company is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and currently employs 642 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2006-03-15. The firm is focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable value-added ingredients. This includes the production of cleaner low carbon biofuels and renewable feedstocks for advanced biofuels. The firm is a producer of Sequence and novel ingredients for animal and aquaculture diets. Its ethanol production segment includes the production, storage and transportation of ethanol, distillers grains, ultra-high protein and renewable corn oil at ten biorefineries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Tennessee. Its Agribusiness and Energy Services segment includes grain procurement, with over 20.2 million bushels of grain storage capacity, and its commodity marketing business, which markets, sells and distributes the ethanol, distillers’ grains, protein and renewable corn oil produced at its ethanol plants.