Advanced BioEnergy, LLC announced that effective July 31, 2012, ABE and Hawkeye Gold, LLC have mutually agreed to terminate their ethanol marketing relationship for the sale of ethanol from ABE's ethanol production facilities in South Dakota and Nebraska. Hawkeye Gold's business relationship with ABE remains positive, and the companies' agreement for the marketing of dried distillers grains produced at ABE's Aberdeen facility will remain in full effect through July 2013. In conjunction with the termination of the agreement with Hawkeye Gold, ABE announced that it has entered into new ethanol marketing agreements with Gavilon, LLC (Gavilon) effective August 1, 2012.

Under the terms of the agreement, Gavilon will be Advanced BioEnergy's exclusive ethanol marketer for all three ethanol production facilities, and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) marketer for the Aberdeen facility effective August 1, 2013.