Ag Matters: Golden Grain Energy Gearing Up For Harvest Season

An ethanol plant in north-central Iowa is gearing up for harvest.

Dave Sovereign is chairman of the board at Golden Grain Energy in Mason City. Sovereign touches on how the ethanol industry and GGE has been handling 2026 thus far.

The crops and their performance was touched on and this is what Sovereign had to say.

Preparing for harvest is one of the biggest tasks that any ethanol plant and co-op have to undergo. Here is how GGE is preparing.

All across the state harvest time looks different for every farmer. Location, weather, variety all plays a role in when the combines get pulled out of the shed. Sovereign says,

Sovereign mentions 45Z. 45Z is a federal Clean Fuel Production Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act. It provides a technology-neutral tax incentive for domestic producers of low-carbon transportation fuels—including sustainable aviation fuel, biodiesel, and ethanol—based on lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This is his perspective.

E15 has been highly talked about in the agriculture industry as of late. The expectations for GGE are,

The market opportunities for energy and other ethanol plants are out there. To close this is what GGE plans to focus on.

Again, that was Dave Sovereign is chairman of the board at Golden Grain Energy in Mason City.