KAAPA Ethanol exceeding dreams of founders

By Guest on Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Kearney area producers form alliance 22 years ago, recently adding Aurora plant to statewide economic impact

  • Steam rises from the KAAPA ethanol plant west of Minden on a cold cloudy winter day. Its original production capacity of 40 million gallons a year had doubled by March 2016.
    Steam rises from the KAAPA ethanol plant west of Minden on a cold cloudy winter day. Its original production capacity of 40 million gallons a year had doubled by March 2016.
    Editor’s note: This is the first of two installments involving coverage of KAAPA Co-op, a Kearney-area company which in February completed an agreement to operate the ethanol plant in Aurora. by Lori Potter -- Minden Courier MINDEN -- South-central Nebraska farmers who formed the KAAPA (Kearney Area Ag Producers Alliance) Co-op more than 20 years ago had big dreams...

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