date:Jul 17, 2014
t on George Hohwieler, president and chief executive of the Aurora Cooperative Elevator Co. that is at loggerheads with Aventine.
Hamilton County, Nebraska, by any measure is one of the most productive corn-producing counties in the world, he said. The message being sent to the marketplace is that they're making ethanol out of sugar.
In fact, Aventine's use of beet sugar is the first large-scale production of sugar alcohol in Nebraska since bootleggers used boxcars of sugar to make moonshine d