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The Southeast Kansas BDO Zone for Corn Stover is rated ‘BBB’.

Rating Issue Date: March 12, 2025.

‘BBB’ ratings indicate good prospective viability of Feedstock Supply and Infrastructure and low current expectations of default risk in the Zone. Capacity to support new biobased plant operations is considered adequate, but adverse weather, supply chain, economic, or infrastructure conditions are more likely to impair this capacity over time.

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BDO Zone Rating

BBB

Southeast Kansas BDO Zone Overview

Feedstock quantities are expressed in bone dry tonnes per year (bdt/yr), while feedstock costs are expressed in USD ($). Maximum transport distance is based on a 75-mi driving distance from the centre point (City of Parsons, KS).

BDO Zone Assets:

Strong support for new biomass ventures and rural economic development by local crop growers
No significant competing uses for corn stover
An industrial park with Class 1 rail availability, extensive highway access, and 6,800 acres of contiguous land available for Industrial development

BDO Zone Liabilities:

Short harvesting and baling window requiring high degree of coordination and access to equipment
Significant variation in year-to-year corn stover production due to erratic weather patterns in the last decade
Labor shortage due to short harvest window for corn-winter wheat rotation

Infrastructure

Great Plains Industrial Park

The Kansas Proving Grounds at Great Plains Industrial Park provides turnkey infrastructure and large green field development site options for the utility, processing, manufacturing, logistics sectors. KPG’s unique entity formation allows for a shortened permitting process, expansive discounted land and warehousing parcels and lower utility costs; all of which are uncommon amongst industrial parks. Tenants are advantaged by the US centralized national supply chain/market access and significant fiber, highway, rail and air freight distribution networks.

Zoned for industrial use
Local 60 day processing maximum
State 90-120 day processing maximum
Union Pacific service
Multi-railroad accessibility
Switching and Transload service onsite
Foreign trade zone 161-D
Tracts between 5 and 500 acres available Industrial Revenue Bonds(IRBs)
Property Tax Abatements
Access to continuous Green Energy
Significant market reach: Springfield, MO – 118mi Bentonville, AR – 117mi • Port of Catoosa Tulsa, OK – 112mi,
Logistics Park Kansas City – 156mi | Wichita, KS – 128mi
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Contact Info

Ryan Magwood

Head of Business Development

BDO Zone Initiative

ryan@bdozone.org

647-962-3286

BDO Zone Local Development Leaders

Carey Spoon

Executive Director

Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission

Brad Reams

KPG/GPIP Director

Kansas Proving Grounds at Great Plains Industrial Park

breams@parsonsks.com

620-421-1228

Local grants and Incentives

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High Performance Incentive Program:

Up to a 10% tax credit on qualified, new capital investment beyond the first $50,000 of investment.

Promoting Employment Across Kansas Program:

allows qualified for-profit and regional/ national non-for-profit headquarter companies that are locating new jobs or expanding existing Kansas operation.

Kansas Industrial Training:

Provides workforce training funds to companies to help offset costs of training net, new employees.

Kansas Industrial Retraining:

Provides workforce training funds to companies to help offset costs of training existing employees who are likely to be displaced due to obsolete or inadequate job skills or knowledge.

Machinery & Equipment Property Tax Exemption:

Automatic exemption of personal property taxes on machinery and equipment purchased or leased by Kansas companies after June 30, 2006.

Utilities Sales Tax Exemption:

Electricity, gas, and water consumed to run machinery and equipment which will produce, manufacture, process, mine, drill or refine personal property is exempt from state and local sales tax.