---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001309402-25-000149"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPRE"
cik: "0001309402"
company_name: "Green Plains Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:32:00.349015+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Green Plains sells Tennessee ethanol plant for $190M, retires mezzanine debt

## Summary
- Closed sale of Rives, TN plant to POET Biorefining–Obion for $190M cash; includes $20M estimated working capital.
- Proceeds used to retire junior mezzanine notes due 2026 and supplement corporate liquidity.
- Sale supports portfolio optimization and carbon reduction strategy, per company statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001309402-25-000149
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPRE
- cik: 0001309402
- company_name: Green Plains Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000149/0001309402-25-000149-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000149/gpre-20250925.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000149
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000149.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000149.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Green Plains Inc. completed a disposition involving POET Biorefining – Obion, LLC for $190 million in cash (closed 2025-09-25).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: POET Biorefining – Obion, LLC
  - Consideration: $190 million in cash
  - Closing: 2025-09-25
  source text: On September 25, 2025, the Company completed the Transaction for $190 million in cash.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000149/0001309402-25-000149-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.