Happy days are here again at ethanol plants, with profits nearing the all-time high set in 2014. The black ink has all but erased the industry’s bad old days of2020 brought on by the pandemic-induced cutback in liquid fuel use.Scott Irwin, Laurence J. Norton chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, says the rapid rise in ethanol plant profits has brought smiles to ethanol plant operators and owners across the United States.
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