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Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Dear Fort Dodge Community,

Over the past two years CJ Bio America has been building a lysine manufacturing plant west of Fort Dodge. I feel truly fortunate to be surrounded by such great people. So many of you within the community have shown tremendous support for our endeavor, and with that support we have been able to achieve great things. In a very short amount of time, we have established ourselves as a successful lysine manufacturing facility, exceeding even our own aggressive corporate goals with regard to production and efficiency. This could not have been done without the support of such a great community. Even more, many of you have extended your friendship and that personally means a great deal to me. I am humbled by your generosity and good will.

The opening of this facility marks a significant milestone not only for our team, but for our customer relationships and our community partnerships. I want to start by recognizing our great partner, CJ Bio America — you are the reason we are here and began this journey. The Cargill team and I are grateful for your trust and partnership, and we look forward to the growth of both our businesses in the years to come.

Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for your friendship, and all that you have done to help CJ Bio America succeed. I feel blessed to be part of your community. You are truly amazing and wonderful people. I look forward to a bright future for all of us.

Thank you again for your support.

To the Fort Dodge community, I am astounded by your heartfelt welcoming of the Cargill team to the area. To the local and state government, your dedication for the project has been truly amazing and we would not be here today without all of your outstanding efforts.

Lastly, to our Cargill team, thank you for your dedication and commitment to safety, our customers, and our community. Your continued drive and sacrifices represent some of the best I have had the pleasure to work with. This is how I know our future will be full of growth and success that we can all look forward to.

Sincerely, Thank you for all your support.

Jung Tak (J.T.) Nam President/CEO CJ Bio America

Al Viaene Fort Dodge Facility Manager Cargill Corn Milling North America

Index Letters to the community.........................................page 1 Management biographies ........................................page 4 A working partnership..............................................page 8 Making their presence felt in local economy.......page 10 A world-class biorefinery campus ........................page 12 Plant exceeds expectations...................................page 14 Cargill drives Eddyville area economy.................page 16 Cargill timeline ........................................................page 29 CJ Bio America timeline ........................................page 31 Ethanol turns Webster County into net corn importer..................................................page 32 Completing the corn-growing cycle .....................page 34 Did you know? ........................................................page 35 Fun facts..................................................................page 44

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President and CEO of CJ Bio America Inc.

Jung Tak Nam

Jung Tak Nam is the president and chief executive officer of CJ Bio America Inc. Nam joined CJ CheilJedang in June 2011 as a plant management executive. During this time, he established CJ Bio America and oversaw the construction project.

Prior to this role from 2007 to 2011, Nam spent four years leading overseas construction projects in Thailand and United Arab Emirates for POSCO Engineering Co. He successfully led these projects

through completion. He also held positions in overseas marketing and sales to oversee six different foreign branches at Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

In December 1984, Nam joined Daesang Corp. as a mechanical engineer at its lysine plant. Over the next 22 years, he worked in various maintenance, technical development and production management positions.

During this time, the management was

changed to BASF Korea Corp. Nam continued in his role until the facility was closed in May 2007.

Nam received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Chonnam National University.

He was also given an opportunity for a year of overseas training in Biochemical Engineering at University of California, Irvine, to study optimization of fermentation processes.

Fort Dodge facility manager for Cargill Corn Milling North America

Al Viaene

Al Viaene is the Fort Dodge facility manager for Cargill Corn Milling North America.

Viaene was named facility manger of the Fort Dodge location in January 2012.

He is responsible for managing the Fort Dodge campus and building a sustainable relationship with the company’s co-located customers.

Viaene joined Cargill in 2002 as a mill team leader at the Wahpeton, ND., plant.

He worked in that capacity until

2010 then was named facility manger of the Wahpeton plant.

Prior to joining Cargill, Viaene had 20 years of experience working in the corn wet milling industry working in many different capacities including refinery manager for Minnesota Corn Processors from March 1994 to December 2002.

A native of Marshall, Minn., Viaene has a bachelor of science degree in business from Warren National University.

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Cargill/CJ: A working partnership

By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net and

By LARRY KERSHNER kersh@farm-news.com Cargill and CJ Bio America are more than just neighbors in the ag industrial park called Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation.

CJ Bio America gets one of its key ingredients from Cargill, and the companies work together in other ways.

Dextrose and steam are piped from the Cargill facility to CJ Bio America.

The two companies share security and maintenance contractors, according Luke Palmer, the general affairs manager of CJ Bio America.

He added that the two companies work together on compliance with environmental regulations.

Al Viaene, Fort Dodge facility manager for Cargill Corn Milling North America, said beside the business relationship between the two plants, they work closely together in other ways.

“We have,” Viaene said, “a culture established around safety and high-performance.

“It’s been amazing to me.

(The work force) has met my expectations in the longterm in a high-performance work team environment.

“The employees that have been coming in from the sur-

rounding area have great behaviors and technical competencies.”

Viaene said the three ag businesses in the industrial park — Cargill, CJ Bio America and Valero Renewables — have formed safety and environment teams to share best practice expertise for safe handling and storage of products.

“We want to grow that to include other businesses,” he said, “including guest speakers, to share best practices for developing environmental and safety procedures.”

Viaene said this also encourages good personal relationships between Cargill’s and CJ’s work

forces.

“We both have real good people,” he said. “We’re worked through our complexities in a professional manner.’’

“It’s an investment in our futures.”

He said the two entities are “finding the synergy we need to work together out here.”

Synergy is a word that Palmer uses when talking about the relationship between the two companies.

He said they conduct ‘‘synergy meetings’’ to find ways to work together. ‘‘If there’s any way we can use each other’s talent, we do that as well,’’ Palmer said.

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If there’s any way we can use each other’s talent, we do that as well.

—Luke Palmer CJ Bio America general affairs manager

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Cargill, CJ Bio America Making their presence felt in 34% the local economy over four years Tax Revenue rose

Craig Jarrard

Clark Fletcher

By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net

The economic benefit of the Cargill and CJ Bio America plants is being felt in a shoe store miles way from the ag industrial park called Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation. ‘‘2013 was a very good year,’’ Craig Jarrard, the owner and manager of Brown’s Shoe Fit in Fort Dodge told The Messenger recently. ‘‘It was our single biggest growth year in the 18 years we’ve been open.’’ ‘‘There’s no doubt it’s partly the growth we’re seeing in the area with Cargill coming to town, with CJ Bio America being here,’’ he added.

There are about 180 people working at the CJ Bio America plant and 250 working at the Cargill plant. In additional to those payrolls, the companies pump additional money

Matt Bemrich

Dennis Plautz

into the economy by buying supplies, and in the case of Cargill, large amounts of corn.

According to Webster County Supervisor Clark Fletcher, the two plants began having an economic impact even before they opened. He said that for two years, there were 1,500 construction workers in the area who collectively earned half a billion dollars. ‘‘That’s had a great impact on the local stores, rental properties,’’ he said.

Fort Dodge Mayor Matt Bemrich said the presence of the major manufacturers ‘‘tends to bring ancillary benefits.’’ ‘‘It has a trickling effect, infusing money into the economy,’’ he said.

Bemrich said the businesses benefiting from the two big plants range from companies that lease construction equipment to restaurants.

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People will come to where there is opportunity.

—Clark Fletcher Webster County Supervisor

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Local option sales tax figures provide some of the most obvious evidence of the impact the plants have had, according to Dennis Plautz, the chief executive officer of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance.

He said revenue from the tax rose 34 percent over four years, a time frame that corresponds with Cargill’s announcement that it had purchased the former Tate & Lyle plant and the subsequent renovation of it and the construction of the CJ Bio America plant.

Plautz said that increase in sales tax revenue means retail sales grew by 34 percent during that period.

Bemrich said the growth in sales tax revenue may level off, but he believes it will do so at much higher rate than what it had been before.

More jobs related to Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation are

expected to be created by companies that won’t even be located there. Plans for a new industrial park on the east side of Fort Dodge are being developed. Plautz has said the park will be occupied by companies that will provide services to the manufacturers and to the wind farm being developed

by MidAmerican Energy in southern Webster County.

Fletcher said he believes there is an ‘‘overall growing confidence’’ in the local economy. As evidence of that, he points to the opening of new restaurants such as Jimmy John’s and Pancheros, and the new facilities being constructed

by Kemna Auto of Fort Dodge.

He added that believes the population of Fort Dodge and Webster County will begin to grow. ‘‘People will come to where there is opportunity,’’ he said.

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Cargill intends to be a world-Class biorefinery Plant to market five components from corn Campus

By LARRY KERSHNER kersh@farm-news.com

steep house on Oct. 23, 2013, and ground its first corn four days later.

In wet milling, the grain is soaked, or steeped, in water and diluted acid for anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.

This steeping facilitates the separation of the grain into its component parts.

In November 2013, Cargill announced it had started operating its corn wet mill plant in Fort Dodge.

On June 24, the plant held an invitation-only gathering of civic leaders and media to announce it’s officially in full operation.

Cargill purchased the idled facility from Tate & Lyle in 2011 in the ag industrial park called Iowa’s Crossroads of -Messenger/Farm News photo by Larry Kershner Global Innovation, northwest of Fort CARGILL HAS THREE corn storage bins, enough to supply itself with about six days of grain.

Matt Al Terry The largest bin on the right was built by Cargill.

The two smaller bins were built by the previous owner, Dodge along Iowa Bemrich Viaene Branstad Tate & Lyle.

Highway 7.

“We are excited to be Viaene said in November operational in Fort Dodge,” the entire plant was not fully said, including more than philosophy as well.

2013 interview, “but we Dodge, has been helpful in said Al Viaene, Fort Dodge productive, but each stage half hired from within the “Getting to work with a work with companies that do providing training space for facility manager for Cargill was tested with small region. company like Cargill has it very well.”

Cargill employees.

Corn Milling North America. amounts of corn to determine “As a subcontractor that been a benefit to us as a local Viaene said Cargill sources The plant is providing When at full production if there were any issues or has worked out there,” said company.” all its corn locally from within advisory team members to capacity, he said, the plant is equipment adjustments.

Matt Bemrich, Fort Dodge The company employs a 90-mile radius. Corn could assist ICCC in curriculum for capable of processing “Through a plant this size mayor and private contractor, embedded contractors for be railed in, he said, but there training new employees in 150,000 bushels of corn a and complexity,” Viaene “I can say that they’ve been a security, corn grading, main- are no off-loading capabilities the biorefining industry. day and turning out five co- said, “there are start-up real good company to work tenance services and predic- from rail cars. products, including dextrose, issues you tend to have. But I for. They’re very involved in tive maintenance technology room to grow “Our plans are all truck distiller’s dried grains and think overall it’s going rela- the safety aspect of how their — thermography, vibration traffic corn,” he said, “from The corn wet mill ethanol Sweet Bran feed for cattle. tively well.” contractors operate on their and oil analyses — “that’s growers and end suppliers.” plant will provide the base Viaene said the plant The facility is fully staffed facility, which is an impor- not in our core competency,” He said Iowa Central load corn grind for the camloaded its first corn in the with 250 employees, Viaene tant part of our company’s Viaene said in a November Community College, in Fort pus and will also support

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“

We’re continuing to explore other business opportunities.

—Nicole Reichert

Cargill external communications manager

additional business growth in the coming years, said Nicole Reichert, external communications manager for Cargill corn milling, based in Minneapolis.

That growth includes CJ Bio America, an over-thefence business partner that will use Cargill’s dextrose for animal feed processing.

“We’re continuing to explore other business opportunities.”

She said the Fort Dodge plant is looking to copy the success Cargill has in similar plants in Eddyville and Blair, Neb. The Fort Dodge plant is bigger than Eddyville’s — 115 million gallons per year versus 35 million gallons.

Cargill, Viaene said, sees the Fort Dodge plant as a world class biorefinery campus that will produce ethanol and other bio-based products.

“This investment demonstrates Cargill’s continued commitment to Iowa agriculture,” said Gov. Terry

”

Branstad. “The Fort Dodge facility created more than 100 jobs in Webster County and the addition of CJ Bio America will lead to further job growth in Fort Dodge.”

Viaene said there are 450 acres in the industrial ag park, which provides room for growth.

He said he’s confident that being in the heart of the Corn Belt, with available electricity, water and rail infrastructure of CN, formerly Canadian National Railway, and Union Pacific, “we can be successful going forward.”

“We’re just starting the marathon of what’s going to happen over the next number of years,” said Bemrich.

“The starting gun is the startup of the Cargill facility, and we’ll see over the development of their facility and the co-located facilities, our success continue to go.

It’s a neat day, it’s like the starting pistol going off today.”

-Messenger/Farm News photo by Larry Kershner

A FULL GRAIN truck rolls into the Cargill site on June 20 and waits for a probe to take several samples of grain before it can unload its 1,000 or so bushels of corn.

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More lysine is being produced

By BILL SHEA

bshea@messengernews.net

Less than a year after it opened, the CJ Bio America plant in Webster County is on track to produce more of its key product — the amino acid lysine — than its designers envisioned.

The facility has what Jung Tak Nam, the company’s president and chief executive officer, calls a ‘‘nameplate’’ capacity of Jung 100,000 metTak Nam ric tons per year.

That equates to making 275 metric tons per day.

However, he said the plant is actually producing 300 metric tons per day. ‘‘We think that we can produce 110,000 metric tons per year,’’ Nam said.

The entire North American market for lysine is almost 380,000 metric tons per year, he said.

He attributes the higherthan-expected output to fermentation technology that the company perfected at

CJ Bio America

plant exceeds expectations

plants in other countries. ‘‘We use the best technology,’’ he said.

Lysine is an amino acid considered essential for growth that is added to feed for poultry and swine.

CJ Bio America is part of a larger South Korean company, CJ CheilJedang, that has the No. 1 market share in the worldwide lysine market.

According to Nam, company executives began looking at North America as a site for a production plant in 2004. In 2011, they zeroed in on Webster County. The local plant was approved by the company’s top management in September 2011, he said.

Webster County was selected as the plant site for several reasons, Nam said.

He said the area has ‘‘very good infrastructure,’’ including water, sewage, electricity and the presence of two railroads, the Union Pacific and the Canadian National. The nearby Cargill corn wet-milling facility was also a key factor, because that company provides dextrose, a key ingredient for making lysine.

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We use

the best technology.

—Jung Tak Nam CJ Bio America president, CEO

”

Nam added that Webster County is the center of a corn producing area.

The availability of grants to help pay for training the workers was another key factor in the decision to locate a plant in Webster County.

-Messenger/Farm News photo by Larry Kershner

NAGLE SIGN INC. employees raise a new sign for CJ Bio America on June 20 outside the company's administration building.

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-Messenger/Farm News photo by Larry Kershner

THIS IS THE first bag that CJ Bio America produced of its lysine product for pet food. It was bagged on Nov. 1, 2013, and signed by company employees.

We think we can produce 110,000 metric tons per year.

The CJ Bio America plant, located in the ag industrial park west of Fort Dodge called Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation, is a $323 million investment. It is the company’s first production facility in the United States.

Construction began in the spring of 2012. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 15, 2012.

Plant supervisors and shift leaders were hired in September 2012. The first of about 90 plant operators were hired in January 2013.

All of the new hires completed a methodical training process that included weeks of work at the Iowa Central Community College East Campus and visits to plants in Brazil and Indonesia.

There are about 180 people working at the plant. CJ Bio America employs about 140 of them. They are joined by about 20 employees of CJ Korea Express, another component of CJ CheilJedang, who coordinate lysine shipments and move rail cars in and out of the plant. An additional 27 people work for security and maintenance contractors.

Production started on

—Jung Tak Nam CJ Bio America president and CEO

Nov. 1, 2013.

The finished lysine is shipped to four distribution facilities in the United States, plus Canada and Mexico.

Produces

300 METRIC

tons daily In addition to lysine, the company makes liquid fertilizer.

Dextrose and steam are piped to the plant from the Cargill facility. That’s not the only connection between the two companies, however. They share security and maintenance contractors and work together on environmental compliance, according to Luke Palmer, the company’s general

”

affairs manager.

Representatives of the two companies also conduct ‘‘synergy meetings’’ to find ways to work together, he said. ‘‘If there’s any way we can use each other’s talent, we do that as well,’’ Palmer said.

With major construction completed, trees have been planted along the northern and western edges of the CJ Bio America site.

There is room on the company’s 65-acre property for potential future expansion that could boost production capacity to about 200,000 metric tons per year.

Since its debut in Webster County, the company has moved to support the community and its people. It contributed $19,000 to pay for the renovation of the kitchen in the Fort Dodge firehouse, and it gave $10,000 to help pay for the May 11, 2013, Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight that took veterans to Washington, D.C. The company has also sponsored the annual dragon boat races held at Badger Lake in John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.

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CArgill Drives eDDyville AreA eCoNoMy Southern Iowa complex offers example of what could happen in Webster County

By BILL SHEA

$60,000, he said. That compares to an average salary of EDDYVILLE — Tucked about $40,000 for people in amid the hills just outside of the area who do not work in Eddyville are a collection of the complex, he added. buildings, pipes and tanks The Cargill plant uses that form a major economic about 90 million bushels of driver for a three-county corn annually, which means area in south central Iowa. more sales and more money The signs outside the var- for farmers in nearby ious plants bear a name Mahaska, Monroe and familiar to many Wapello counties and Midwesterners — beyond.

Cargill Inc. — and An Iowa State some, such as University study Ajinomoto and completed in 2007 Wacker Biosolutions, indicates that the that may be less higher returns for familiar. corn growers range The plants make up from $532,000 to what what’s called $2.13 million.

The Iowa Andrew The impact of the Jensen Bioprocessing Center. complex is evident The center grew up even to those who around a Cargill wet-corn don’t have reams of ecomilling facility similar to the nomic statistics at their finone the company built in gertips.

Webster County at the ag ‘‘I think the town would industrial park called Iowa’s be a lot less without it,’’ said Crossroads of Global Phil Thompson, the manager Innovation. Local officials of Riverside Auto Parts and have said the kind of growth Repair in Eddyville. ‘‘It’s that’s occurred around the jobs. It’s a good thing for the Eddyville plant is what they area, that’s for sure.’’

-Messenger/Farm News photo by Bill Shea hope to see around Fort Thompson said his busiDodge. ness has taken on extra work THE CARGILL wET CoRN MILLING FACILITy near Eddyville looms over a public street. Cargill has 500 ‘‘They’re huge drivers in in the form of repairing employees there, and contractors that provide services to the plant have about 200 employees there every our local economy,’’ said Cargill trucks since the com- day. Ten products are made there.

Andrew Jensen, the execu- pany’s plant opened. tive director of the Mahaska Also in Eddyville, a new Community Development truck washing facility was Group. built to serve the big rigs According to Jensen, 748 going to and from the compeople work at The Iowa plex.

Bioprocessing Center.

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eDDyville Thompson said that “a lot of people like working out there.’’ He added that Cargill has a reputation as a very safetyoriented company.

Cargill came to the Eddyville area when it bought an old coal-fired power plant in 1984.

Craig C r a i g Ambrose Ambrose, the Cargill facility manager in Eddyville, said Iowa Southern Utilities sold the plant as it prepared to bring its new Ottumwa Generating Station online.

The old power plant still exists, and the wet-corn milling facility grew up all around it.

Ambrose said the plant is the second largest capital investment Cargill has ever made. The largest investment, he said, is in a plant in Blair, Neb. That’s another site Fort Dodge area leaders have touted as they describe the potential impact Cargill could have on Webster County.

The Eddyville plant was built to produce high fructose corn sweetener. That’s still made there, but the plant also churns out dextrose, corn syrup, corn gluten meal, Sweet Bran, unrefined corn oil, ethanol, citric and citrate products, glucosamine and vitamin E compounds.

The Cargill plant in Webster County makes

Continued from Page 16

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—Craig Ambrose Cargill facility manager

” -Messenger/Farm News photo by Bill Shea

THE BUILDINGS AND PIPES of the Iowa Bioprocessing Center can be seen from the road leading into Eddyville. The center is the site of four major manufacturing facilities and a fifth one is being constructed.

dextrose, ethanol, feed for cattle, high gluten meal, corn germ and a molasseslike substance called corn steep liquor.

Ambrose said Cargill has 500 employees in Eddyville.

The plant receives 450 truckloads of corn a day.

The finished products leave the plant by truck and train.

In Webster County, the crossing of the Union Pacific and Canadian National railroads was a key

factor in attracting plants to Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation. There is no such crossing in Eddyville, but the plants there enjoy easy access to the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa

Fe railroads. Ambrose said RailServe Inc. operates a rail yard for Cargill.

He added that the plant has another unique transportation feature — the only traffic lights in Eddyville are in the Cargill

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The Cargill plant has a handful of what company officials call over-the-fence customers. They are nearby plants that use materials purchased from Cargill to make their own products.

In Eddyville, the first of those over-the-fence customers was Ajinomoto Heartland Inc. Its plant opened in the early 1990s.

The company gets dextrose from Cargill and uses it to make lysine.

A related company, Ajinomoto Food Ingredients Inc., opened a plant in the mid-1990s. It makes the food ingredient monosodium glutamate.

Wacker Biosolutions, which makes compounds called cyclodextrins, was the next over-the-fence customer.

Another over-the-fence customer, Harris and Ford ChlorAlkai, is building a plant where it produce caustic soda, muriatic acid and bleach. Some of that material will be sold to other companies in the complex.

In Webster County, Cargill has one over-thefence customer so far. CJ Bio America gets dextrose from Cargill and refines it into the amino acid lysine.

Continued from Page 17

There is another occupant of the complex which helps to provide trained workers for the companies there.

Indian Hills Community College, based in Ottumwa, operates the Iowa Bioprocess Training Center located across the street from the Cargill plant. ‘‘That partnership with Indian Hills Community College has been very important,’’ Ambrose said.

Those who live and work near the plants acknowledge that there are some downsides to their presence.

For example, Thompson said there are some odors that emerge from the facilities that people may not like.

Big trucks rumble through downtown Oskaloosa every day on U.S. Highway 63. ‘‘Oskaloosa loves Cargill,’’ Jensen said. ‘‘The truck traffic downtown we can do without.’’

He said local officials hope to construct a bypass northwest of the city that would take traffic from U.S. Highway 63 to Iowa Highway 163. He added that Cargill has been a ‘‘great partner’’ in the quest to get the bypass built.

-Messenger/Farm News photo by Bill Shea

THREE RowS oF CoLoRFUL FLAGS representing the countries to which the Cargill plant in Eddyville ships its products stand near the entrance to the site. Craig Ambrose, the facility manager, said its products are exported to more than 50 nations.

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Gov. Terry Branstad, right, visits with Cargill President and CEO Dave MacLennan during the CJ Bio America/Cargill Grand Opening Celebration.

CJ Bio America Chairman Kyung-Shik Sohn, right, visits with Webster County Supervisor Bob Singer during the CJ Bio America/Cargill Grand Opening Celebration.

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Webster County Supervisor Mark Campbell, left, stops to talk with Lester Brown, Cargill refinery and ethanol team leader, during the CJ Bio America/Cargill Grand Opening Celebration.

Guests sign in to attend the CJ Bio America/Cargill Grand Opening Celebration.

Eric Black, Cargill Fermentation and OTF Commercial Manager, at left, stops to chat with Clark Fletcher, Webster County Supervisor, during the CJ Bio America/Cargill Grand Opening Celebration.

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Even with two ethanol plants in operation in Webster County, the region was already classified as a net importer of corn.

Now, with the addition of Cargill’s appetite for 150,000 bushels of corn daily, the flow of grain will gain speed into Central Iowa.

That assessment comes from Kelvin Leibold, an Iowa State University Extension farm management specialist, based in Eagle Grove.

The three ethanol plants — Cargill and Valero Renewables, both in Fort Dodge, and POET Biorefining in Gowrie — will need an estimated 101 million bushels of corn to keep their plants in operation.

And that doesn’t include other end-users like cooperatives and feed mills and another ethanol plant — POET-Jewell — in

Hamilton County.

Leibold said according to 2011 and 2012 corn yield data Webster County harvested 40 million bushels in 2011 and just 33 million during 2012’s drought year.

2013 yield data is not yet available.

Based on 2012, to meet the need for 101 million bushels for ethanol, it would take the combined corn yield of Webster County’s 33 million bushels, plus Hamilton County’s 29 million, Calhoun County’s 24 million and Humboldt’s 20 million, for a total of 106 million bushels of corn.

That doesn’t include POET-Jewell’s demand.

Leibold said the cumulative effect has seen a reversal of Iowa’s grain flowing from river markets to the state’s interior.

Traditionally, before the development of ethanol, north central Iowa, Leibold said, “was a strong corn exporter to Texas feedlots and overseas.”

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But not so much anymore.

“It takes a lot of corn to run (an ethanol) operation,” Leibold said. “It means they have to bid more aggressively” to cover a farmers’ freight cost as plants cast a wider net in search of corn.

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When the announcement of Cargill’s purchase of the former Tate & Lyle wet milling plant in March 2011, Keith Dencklau, chairman of the Webster County Board of Supervisors and a corn grower, said Cargill’s facility in Eddyville has, at times, had a zero basis impact on Wapello County corn sales.

Basis refers to the relationship between the cash price in a local market and the futures market price for a commodity. Local basis is generally lower than the futures price because the grain is hauled to a local end-user, rather delivered to a river barge.

So the closer the basis gets to the future price, it’s generally considered extra

revenue in farmers’ pockets.

The Eddyville facility, Dencklau said, produces ethanol, high fructose corn syrup and gluten. That plant has led to the creation of two manufacturers that use Cargill’s corn byproducts.

“Even if they lower the basis by 10 cents,” Dencklau said, “it’ll be good for agriculture.”

As of June 20, POETGowrie closed the day with a cash corn bid of $4.548, 5 cents over the Chicago futures price; Cargill and Valero closed the business day at $4.53 per bushel, essentially even with the futures price.

Although basis has been as high as $1.75 over futures prices within the past two years, the long-term, pre-ethanol, traditional basis was 45 cents or more under the Chicago price.

Many farmers recall when corn was struggling to get over $2.

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A young farmer, Lynch said he recalls not long ago when marketing grain was choosing between one of a few area cooperatives.

The average basis was 30 cents under Chicago’s futures price.

“Once in a while, we take corn to a feed mill,” he said.

“But now we have three to four options.

“If one is full, we have another option. This has raised basis to either zero or a few cents higher.”

So compared to the traditional price, the corn market in Webster County and contiguous counties has found a more profitable market.

That additional income, said Bill Horan, a Knierimarea producer in a March 2011 interview, “is the best news for producers.

“This can generate millions of more dollars that will be spent locally.”

And he was correct.

On Sept. 18, 2013, for example, Valero and POETGowrie closed the market day offering cash corn sales

of $7.29 per bushel of corn, a chart-topping $1.85 basis over the Chicago futures price.

These high prices were the result of the 2012 drought, which plagued all U.S. corn yields, but especially in Iowa.

With more grain available in 2013, the price has come down in both futures and local cash sales, but the basis is still at even, or pennies over the futures price.

“Now we can turn corn into an added-value product,” Lynch said, “rather than ship corn to Texas or Mexico.

“We can do it ourselves.”

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Historically, Leibold said, elevators controlled storage and corn marketing to exports, feed mills and processors.

“Ethanol plants,” he said, “have led farmers to invest in storage and transportation.”

With the signals of greater corn demand in this region, farmers invested over the past several years in building more on-farm grain storage and purchased semitrucks to haul corn by the 1,000-bushel units “to access different markets,” Leibold said.

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By LARRY KERSHNER kersh@farm-news.com

All refineries create new markets through their processes.

In this case, the new Cargill plant in Fort Dodge will convert corn through its wet-milling system to ethanol creating several byproducts, including selling dextrose to CJ Bio America located next door.

In turn, CJ Bio America, a Korean-owned company, processes the dextrose to extract lysine into a pet food and ends up with another byproduct — ammonium sulfate.

This then is prepared as a nitrogen-rich liquid fertilizer source designed to be marketed back to corn growers for their fields.

“Here at CJ Bio America, our liquid fertilizer department specializes in repurposing industrial byproducts into valuable fertilizers or soil amendments,” said Luke Palmer, general affairs manager for the Fort Dodge facility.

Palmer said several of these co-products are collected in the production areas and transferred to a load-out facility.

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CHRIS SLoTTEN, a site services employee at CJ Bio America, looks out over one of two bladder holding pits that stores the liquid fertilizer, a byproduct of CJ's bioprocessing. gallons of product will be loaded annually to be applied on Iowa’s corn fields.

“Most of the product will be supplied to local growers while some of it will travel up to 60 miles from our

facility,” Palmer said. “The incorporation of various fermentation liquors and other co-products gives us a wide range of micronutrients, as well as an ammonium sulfate-based nitrogen source.”

Trials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and private labs have proven its effectiveness alongside commercial fertilizers.

“Local growers are excited to be involved with the

first season of application,” Palmer said. “Since a good portion of our raw materials used here at CJ are derived from Iowa corn, we are very excited to offer a product that will support Iowa’s corn growers.”

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Congratulations

on your grand opening and continued growth in the region

Cargill & CJ Bio America on your new facilities Thank you for your commitment to Fort Dodge!

Proudly celebrating 80 years

Steve Friesth Construction & Roll-Off Service (515)571-4155

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Service

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Cargill & CJ Bio America on your New Facilities

Family Owned & Operated Since 1953

EAST ON HIGHWAY BUSINESS 20 ACROSS FROM MENARDS

We work with you to design, install, program and service equipment and systems specific to your needs. We move business forward.

rmhsystems.com 800-851-4995

FORT DODGE • 515-576-7241 www.mikosandmatt.com

Congratulations Congratulations

on your grand opening!

Cargill & CJ Bio America

Thank you for your business!

MIDCO

1864 Kountry Lane • Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501 PH: 515-955-3400 • Fax: 515-576-4201 www.randjmaterialhandling.com

Midco Supply

Process Piping • Automation • Controls • Steam • Specialties • IT Solutions

1-800-532-1242 2201 E. 17th Street Des Moines, IA 50316

Office: 515-265-2513 Fax: 515-262-2380 Cell: 515-371-6244

FUN FACTS Over 320,000

Has approximately

53,133 linear feet or just over

10 miles

of rail track

cubic yards of dirt

were brought to the site to bring the elevation up to where it needed to be for construction.

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to uNITED WAY in 2012 and

$98,000

to FOrT DODgE COMMuNITY FOuNDATION in 2013

There is over

1,000 tons

of steel throughout the site

Ethanol from the

FoRT DoDge planT has shipped as far as

Nigeria

We have over 110 miles of piping throughout the site.

Has installed over 23 miles of new piping into the plant.

PRIDE THRU

PERFORMANCE

General Contractor Serving the

Refining, Oil/Gas, Food, Power, Chemical/Petrochemicals, Mining/Metals and the Transportation Industries.

INDUSTRIAL GENERAL CONTRACTOR SERVING THE USA

SINCE 1981

Phone: 701-222-0076 Fax: 701-224-8178

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