The Southern Plains is entering the ethanol-production boom. A Texas plant will use feedlot manure as a power source, with wet distillers grains fed back to cattle. With some 6,300 tons of manure produced daily in nearby feedyards, Hereford, TX, sometimes can appreciate the "smell of money" only so much. But the "Beef Capital of the World" soon could smell like a rose economically while helping reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
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