From Bull-Scrap to Bio-Fuel – The Ethanol Effort in Hereford

Two plants have located near the airport- White Energy and Panda Ethanol. Each plant is expected to produce more than 10-million gallons of ethanol annually.
Kevin Buse estimates that Champion Feeders removes between 45 and 55 tons of manure from his feedlot each year. Panda Ethanol alone expects to use up to l billion pounds of cow manure each year.
Ethanol plants like Panda’s use a technique called “gasifying” to process manure into a gas which can then fire the boilers needed for the enormous corn stills that produce ethanol. Except for the manure, the process is much like making moonshine.
Hereford, Texas, is extraordinarily well positioned for manufacturing biofuels. It sits within the largest conglomeration of cattle in the world-who happen to produce the largest manure/ ethanol energy resource on the planet; it is at the crossroads for railcars bursting with grain for both cattle and energy production; and, a lucrative co-product of ethanol production is “distiller’s grains,” a corn leftover from ethanol production that cattle thrive on eating . The cyclically efficient corn – cattle- energy- corn – cattle relationship is alive and well in Hereford

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