Market Research

[Jackie Seaman]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to do some market research on sales of animal feed and fertilizer in a specific area in order to determine which co-product to start making in our new ethanol plant. I don't really have any background in this area so I was wondering if any of you were aware of any websites or institutions that track this kind of market information? Thanks.

[Erik Weaver]

I would either go to the 'horses mouth' - the feed lots, or to those who supply the feed lots / farmers in your area. Talk to them about producing distillers grain for them and see how interested they are.