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How many bushels of corn are needed for a typical ethanol plant? How many acres of corn would be needed to satisfy that demand?

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How many bushels of corn are needed for a typical ethanol plant? How many acres of corn would be needed to satisfy that demand?

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An “average” ethanol plant today might be able to produce 50 million gallons of ethanol annually. A plant this size would require approximately 18 million bushels of corn. At the 2004 national corn crop average yield of 140 bushels per acre, approximately 128,500 acres of corn would be needed to supply the ethanol plant.