From the Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)
“Ethanol could be the salvation of Louisiana agriculture,” says Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Bob Odom. He and others are hoping the future begins here.
Plans to build an ethanol plant at the site of Lacassine Sugar Mill are under way with engineers from India visiting the plant last week for the first time to examine its operations.
The $56 million mill, built with state taxpayer money, is now owned by a partnership of area farmers and Andino Sugar Development, LLC, a company with headquarters in Colombia. They say they plan to put a plant to make ethanol from sugar syrup produced on the site by 2008.
The launch of an international trade organization for ethanol will take place Monday in Coral Gables, Florida. 
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A Nebraska community college is getting nearly $2 million in federal funds to increase educational opportunities for the ethanol industry.
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After earlier reports indicated Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, would support a lifting of tariffs on ethanol imported to the U.S. from abroad, the Minnesota Democrat Peterson took a hard line against such a move Friday.
Tight world grain supplies and expanding corn based domestic ethanol production have created improved marketing options for U.S. feed grain producers. However, the U.S. feed grains industry should not abandon international market development programs and efforts to preserve its hard won world market share of feed grain and co-product exports based on the current trends, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the 
If only a quarter of proposed new Midwest ethanol plants come on-line, up to half of corn in Midwest states currently sent for export could be diverted to domestic ethanol production, according to a new report by the