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JonSCKs
Posted 9/6/2017 07:59 (#6231968 - in reply to #6231567)
Subject: They pushed Wheat BELOW the cash price of Corn..


For a couple of days here the price of Wheat fell BELOW the price of Corn..  and has not rallied much since as corn prices are moving higher keeping the premium of wheat vs corn narrow.

Consequently, we could grind Wheat in the ethanol plants.. much like Canada does.

( http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/3624/move-over-corn-wheat%27s-king-in-western-canada )

Designing for Wheat 
The key to building an efficient ethanol plant that's optimized for wheat is to make allowances for the grain's characteristics. Kansas-based ICM Inc. is completing the design for its first wheat ethanol plant this winter. "We're trying to move forward with wheat because it is the predominant starch in Canada and overseas," says Mark McCorkle, director of international project management. ICM was chosen to supply the design for Cyprus Agri-Energy Inc. which is proposing a plant at Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. ICM is working with two other Canadian wheat ethanol plants that are in the early planning stages, McCorkle adds. 

The company plans to build on its solid reputation for engineering efficient corn ethanol projects to design a plant optimized for wheat. Wheat's higher viscosity levels and its tendency to foam are the biggest challenges, McCorkle says. Adding an extra enzyme at the beginning of the process helps to thin the slurry allowing a throughput and flow rate similar to corn. In addition to new enzymes, equipment modifications also help manage foaming issues. ICM has seen good results in foaming control by blending 10 percent corn into the wheat rather than using a more costly foaming agent such as corn oil. At the back end of the process, the amount of wet cake leftover after fermentation and distillation also increases when wheat is used as opposed to corn, which in turn increases the load on the centrifuges and driers, McCorkle explains. Once the wheat design is optimized, ICM will continue researching other feedstocks to meet its goal of developing a truly multi-grain feedstock facility for the international ethanol market

We have an abundance of high test weight.. low protein wheat this year which would grind very well up to maybe 30%

Also the dryland corn crop is going to be much smaller this year here.

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