Siouxland Energy and Livestock Cooperative (SELC) is owned by 391 farmer members and is a closed cooperative. SELC was formed for the purpose of building, owning and operating an ethanol plant near Sioux Center, Iowa.. The ethanol produced from corn is sold for blending with gasoline as an octane enhancer and as a fuel and as E85 oxygenate to meet federal fuel standards. Recently SELC has completed an expansion project that increased production capacity to 60,000,000 gallons annually.

SELC also produces high value feed co-products; wet distiller’s grain and syrup, which are the remnants of the corn after the ethanol producing starch is removed. These co-products are sold to nearby beef and dairy operations. This allows SELC to not need a dryer for the co-products, which significantly reduces energy costs to the plant and also replaces VOC emissions to the atmosphere.

There are several factors related to the SELC business that enable it to compete effectively in the ethanol production industry. These include a plant location in one of the top ten corn producing counties in the United States; one of the top counties in Iowa for livestock production, good retention of employees, and farmers that have interest in adding value to their farming operations.

This plant utilizes high moisture corn from its members. Which adds up to an additional 46 cents per bushel of value. Members deliver 250 bushel of corn per share. As High Moisture Corn is received, the corn is cracked and packed into a 1050 foot by 262 foot concrete bunker.

Corn is processed at a rate of 58,000 bushel per day producing approximately 168,000 gallons of denatured ethanol per day.

SELC Members are proud to do their part in improving the environment, improving the economy, and in making our country less dependent on foreign oil.