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Article: Wisconsin Agriculture Department Prepares to Build First Ethanol Plant.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 4, 2001
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 4--The board chairman of the State Agriculture Department -- an agency that would subsidize ethanol producers -- is a founder and investor in a company poised to build Wisconsin's first large-scale ethanol plant.
Agriculture Board Chairman John L. Malchine is vice president and chief financial officer of Badger State Ethanol LLC, a Monroe company that is raising $59 million to construct a plant that would turn corn and other products into ethanol.
As the company gets off the ground, the Agriculture Department is writing rules on how it would manage and pay ...