Tranche Update on Green Plains Inc.'s Equity Buyback Plan announced on August 14, 2014.

Green Plains Inc. is a biorefining company. The Company is focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable value-added ingredients. Its Ethanol Production segment includes the production of ethanol, distillers’ grains, protein and renewable corn oil at ten biorefineries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Tennessee. Its Agribusiness and Energy Services segment includes grain procurement, with approximately 20.2 million bushels of grain storage capacity, and its commodity marketing business, which markets, sells and distributes the ethanol, distillers’ grains, protein and renewable corn oil produced at its ethanol plants. Its Partnership segment provides fuel storage and transportation services through owning, operating, developing and acquiring ethanol and fuel storage tanks, terminals, transportation assets and other related assets and businesses.