In the spring of 2022, the Green Plains ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa, announced plans to expand their facility to create “clean sugar” in an effort to take advantage of new markets for their product.
Aviation fuel is industry’s ‘white whale’
As the industry looks for new uses for corn and soybeans, Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, said SAF “could be the biggest thing to hit rural America since corn hybrids — and I mean that. That’s how big this is.”





