Beatric: Nebraska's first 'soydiesel' plant

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The facility would buy soybean oil from a regional soybean processing facility to convert into 10.3 million gallons of biodiesel, as well as 1 million gallons for pharmaceutical-grade glycerin.

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Soy biodiesel plant in Neb. closes

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LINCOLN — Nebraska's only commercial-size soybean biodiesel plant has closed, and officials involved in the operation said federal or state incentives might be needed to help get it reopened.

Northeast Nebraska BioDiesel, which had the capacity to produce 5 million gallons of soy biodiesel a year, closed this month in Scribner.

Seven of its 10 employees were laid off, said Bret Brodersen, a Herman, Neb., farmer who was among seven investors in the more-than-$4-million facility.

High soybean prices and low prices for the fuel combined to make it unprofitable for the plant to stay open. Negative publicity for biodiesel, which Brodersen said was undeserved, also cut into sales.

Construction on another soy biodiesel plant in Nebraska, a $50 million facility in Beatrice, began in 2007 but was never finished. Its owners declared bankruptcy.