First, I frequently accompany guests of POET on tours of our ethanol production facilities. Often, the tourists discover for the first time that ethanol production does not consume the entire corn kernel. Ethanol is produced from the starch while the protein from the kernel becomes distillers grains and is sold to the feed market. Our company sells eight billion pound of it a year under the brand name Dakota Gold. Industry-wide, it will displace the need for more than one billion bushels of corn in the animal feed market this year.
Second, even though you can't eat the corn we process into ethanol, researchers are constantly working on new ways to use the product, including feeding it to humans. There was a story in our local newspaper today on that very topic. A group of researchers from SDSU want to develop DDGS that will feed the world.
Even though they are often overlooked, DDGS are a big part of the reason why the world doesn't have to chose between food and fuel. It can do both. With the same kernel.

