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Processor Preferred® is Monsanto’s commitment to ethanol. It is a total supply chain solution that starts with selecting High Fermentable Corn (HFC) hybrids for their high ethanol yield capabilities, continues by providing marketing and technical support to processors and growers, and extends to efforts to help build ethanol infrastructure.
Processor Preferred can help reduce American reliance on foreign oil.
- One acre of corn can produce more than 420 gallons of ethanol1
- In 2006, U.S. ethanol volume displaced about 170 million barrels of imported crude oil, valued at $11 billion2
- Ethanol supports the creation of more than 153,000 jobs in all sectors of the economy, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
- By 2015, over 5 billion bushels of corn could go to producing over 15 billion gallons of ethanol
- Assumptions: corn yield of 150 bu/acre – 2.8 gallons/bushel (USDA projections); 420 gallons of ethanol. EIA 2007 Outlook.
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