8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 17, 2015

GRANITE FALLS ENERGY, LLC
(Exact name of small business issuer as specified in its charter)
Minnesota	000-51277		41-1997390
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
15045 Highway 23 SE, Granite Falls, MN		56241-0216
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)
(320) 564-3100
(Issuer's telephone number)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition, and

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

On or about December 17, 2014, Granite Falls Energy, LLC (the “Company”) sent a letter to its members announcing its estimate of tax liability of members for its tax year ended December 31, 2015. A copy of this letter is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.

The information in Items 2.02 and 7.01 of this Current Report, including Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished and shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section. The information in this Current Report shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, regardless of any general incorporation language contained in such filing. 

Item 8.01 Other Events

On December 17, 2015, the Board of Governors of the Company declared a cash distribution of $315 per membership unit to the holders of record of the Company's units at the close of business on December 17, 2015, for a total distribution of $9,640,890. The Company expects to pay the distribution by the end of January 2016, subject to approval from the Company's lender.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a) None.

(b) None.

(c) None.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit No.Description

99.1            Letter to the Members of the Company dated December 17, 2015.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	GRANITE FALLS ENERGY, LLC
Date: December 17, 2015	/s/ Stacie Schuler
	Stacie Schuler, Chief Financial Officer

EX-99.1

December 17, 2015

Dear Member,

Granite Falls Energy, LLC (GFE) is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) taxed as a partnership, which means the income or loss of the company flows through to the individual owners of membership interests in proportion to their ownership interest. These amounts are reported to members on K-1 & KPI tax forms, which will be mailed the first half of February. The portion of company income or loss reflected on your K-1 & KPI forms must be reported on your personal individual income tax returns. Please remember that although our fiscal year ends October 31^st, our tax reporting year ends December 31^st.

Since we are aware that the income or loss reported to you could impact your tax planning and other financial decisions prior to year end, we are providing this ESTIMATE of company taxable income or loss for the calendar year ending December 31, 2015. This ESTIMATE is not a guarantee of future results; it is only our prediction and involves numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties*. Our actual results may differ. 

TAXABLE INCOME:

Based on our preliminary financial results, we anticipate you may have approximately $280 income per membership unit (full year owners) of taxable income reported to you on your K-1 & KPI forms for the 12-months ending December 31, 2015. If you owned your membership units, or a portion of them, for less than this entire calendar year, your share of company income or loss will be pro-rated to show the amount for the portion of the year that you owned the units. Your K-1 & KPI forms will reflect any pro-ration based on a change in your unit ownership.

Please be sure to consult your individual tax advisor regarding the potential deductibility and/or carryover of any losses reported to you on Schedules K-1 & KPI.

This ESTIMATE of taxable income/loss allocation does NOT represent the amount of the cash distribution you can expect. We have capital requirements, operational expenses and loan covenants that limit the amount of cash that will be available for distribution to members.

Sincerely,

/s/ Stacie Schuler

Stacie Schuler

Chief Financial Officer

* This memo contains forward-looking statements that involve future events, our future performance and our expected future operations and actions.  In some cases you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may,” “should,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “will,” “plan,” “future,” “intend,” “could,” “estimate,” “predict,” “hope,” “potential,” “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions.  These forward-looking statements are only our predictions and involve numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Our actual results or actions may differ materially from these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including the following factors identified in our quarterly reports.

We are not under any duty to update the forward-looking statements contained in this memo.  We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.  We caution you not to put undue reliance on any forward looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this memo. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.