Exhibit 10.1

                           CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO
                          MIDWEST GRAIN PRODUCTS, INC.
                          STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN OF 1996

         The  undersigned  Secretary of Midwest Grain  Products,  Inc., a Kansas
corporation (the "Company") hereby certifies that the 1998 Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Company was held at the Mount Conference  Center,  710 South
9th Street, Atchison, Kansas 66002, at 10:00 a.m. local time on October 8, 1998,
that the meeting was properly  called and  noticed,  that a quorum of Common and
Preferred Stock was present, that the meeting was otherwise convened and held in
accordance  with the  applicable  laws of the State of Kansas and the  Company's
Articles of  Incorporation  and Bylaws,  and that at such meeting the  following
resolution was duly adopted and approved by the affirmative  vote of the holders
of a  majority  of the shares of Common  Stock and a  majority  of the shares of
Preferred Stock  represented at the meeting,  thereby amending the MIDWEST GRAIN
PRODUCTS,  INC. STOCK  INCENTIVE PLAN OF 1996, in the respects set forth in said
resolution:

         "RESOLVED that Section 4(a) of the Midwest Grain  Products,  Inc. Stock
         Incentive  Plan of 1996 be amended to increase the aggregate  number of
         shares  of  Common  Stock  of  the  Company  which  may  be  issued  or
         transferred pursuant to stock incentives granted under the plan from
         450,000 to 600,000."

         The undersigned  further  certifies that the said amendment  remains in
full force and effect as of the date hereof.

         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the  undersigned  has executed this instrument on
this 12th day of November, 1998.


                                          s/ Marta L. Myers
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                                          Marta L. Myers, Secretary
                                          Midwest Grain Products, Inc.