The economic, social, political, and environmental impacts of modern ethanol production in the U.S. are highly regionalized. Current ethanol production and most new ethanol plant development in the United States are concentrated in the Corn Belt states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
Those states alone produced nearly 62 percent of the nation’s corn in 2006. Not surprisingly those same states account for about two thirds of actual or planned ethanol production capacity. Ethanol production and plant development took on an added urgency in the fall of 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita crippled domestic oil production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico.
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