James Valley Ethanol Plant, 2003

U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, left, talks with Jeff Broin, chief executive officer of Broin Companies, center and Kelly Kjelden, general manager of the James Valley Ethanol Plant, right, during a tour of the facility near Groton Tuesday. The trio are standing in the receiving building where corn is dropped off to be processed into ethanol. The mounds in the background are distillers grain, a bi-product of the ethanol making process that is used as a cattle feed supliment. photo by john davis taken 5/27/2003

February 15, 2013