At the groundbreaking ceremony for Midwest Ethanol’s O’Neill, Nebraska plant on Friday, company officials announced two more plant locations for the state. (Picture courtesy of Kurt Bravo).

The specific site locations were identified as Furnas County Ethanol, Inc. in Arapahoe, which is 30 miles southwest of Holdrege, and Dawson County Ethanol, Inc. located in Elm Creek, near Kearney, Nebraska.

Each plant will be permitted to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol each year, along with 320,000 tons of dry distillers grain(a high protein cattle feed), and will consume more than 37 million bushels of corn annually