Biofuels Take Root in Big Oil Country

Soya & Oilseed Industry News:
Sept 9, 2005
"So why is The Panda Group of Dallas breaking ground this summer on a 100-million gallon ethanol plant in Hereford, where unit rail cars by the hundreds haul in millions of bushels of corn to service feedyards and a new influx of dairies? One reason is the use of technology to take advantage of a continuous supply of cattle manure and cotton gin waste to fire the plant instead of high-priced natural gas.

And Panda will have an instant market for wet distillers' grain, which will be sold to area feedyards for blending into their fed-cattle ration."