date:Jul 17, 2014
A auctions last fall, purchasing some 660 million pounds of beet sugar.
Beemer said the firm earned up to 50 cents a gallon on each of the 80,000 gallons it churned out daily while burning beet sugar. If the supplies last through August, as expected, that could amount to a nearly $4 million profit for Aventine, according to a Reuters calculation.
Beemer declined to comment on the profitability of the Aurora operation.
The company operates ethanol plants in Nebraska and Illinois. As a publicly