• Facility sits on 120 acres of land with the plant footprint being about 50 acres, allowing room for potential expansion.
• Facility is located adjacent to a Canadian Northern (CN) main line railroad.
• The rail connects to the CN in two places, allowing for ease to get rail cars in and out utilizing a 5 track ladder.
• The rail and truck traffic pattern for the plant has been well thought out--no impact on local vehicle traffic.

• The three truck scales are located at the grain dump for quick and efficient grain unloading.
• The facility also has the ability to unload rail cars of grain as a precaution in case of a severe drought for the local crop.
• Grain storage includes two 200,000 bushel concrete grain storage bins and two 730,000 bushel steel storage grain bins for a total of 1.86 million bushels of grain storage (more than 30 days of grain storage).
• Two receiving legs rated at 14,000 bushels per hour each.

• Ethanol shipments can be made by truck or rail tank car regionally and to Canada.
• Western Wisconsin has two finished ethanol storage tanks with a capacity of 750,000 gallons each for a total of 1,500,000 gallons (over 9 days).
• Support tankage includes a 100,000 gallon 200 proof tank, a 100,000 gallon denaturant tank and a 100,000 gallon 190 proof tank.
• Western Wisconsin has a full lab setup and is a certified seller of ethanol to Canada.

• Western Wisconsin produces about 35% modified distillers grains and 65% dry distillers grains. The modified distillers are shipped by truck and the dry distillers can be shipped by truck or rail.
• Segregated storage facilities support the combination of wet and dry production and marketing. Western Wisconsin has the capacity to dry 100% of its distillers capacity.

• Western Wisconsin is set to produce over 8 million pounds of industrial corn oil in 2011, which is a material income enhancement for the company.

• Western Wisconsin has been in discussions with an industrial gas company for a crude CO2 contract.

• The Western Wisconsin facility is located 70 miles east of Minneapolis. Minneapolis is near Boyceville, Wisconsin (map link) with flexible local access to corn feedstocks as well as the capacity to rail in grain if needed. (It would take a major drought or other disaster in the west central Wisconsin area before grain would need to be railed.)

• The grain handling facility and the unloading efficiency of the facility will benefit the west central Wisconsin area. The facility will receive grain direct from the producer, from area cooperatives, and from the regional grain companies that move grain cross country by truck.
• There are 38 million bushels (5 year average) of corn produced in the 5 counties around Western Wisconsin. There are over 600 million bushels of production within 125 miles of the ethanol plant, which would make the 20 million bushels used by the plant about 3% of the local market.

• The majority of Western Wisconsin’s ethanol is sold to Canada to meet the 5% renewable fuel content in gasoline regulation that became mandatory beginning in December of 2010. Similar to the RFS-2, the Renewable Fuel Regulations place the burden for compliance on blenders and refiners, and they demonstrate compliance by generating compliance units (similar to RINs under RFS-2) by purchasing or producing renewable fuel or by purchasing compliance units from other market participants.

• There are numerous dairy cattle within a 100-mile radius of the facility, which is where 35% of the company’s modified distillers are sold.
• Most of the remaining dried distillers are exported to Canada to supplement its feed grain deficit.