Bion Environmental Applied sciences, Inc., an organization that prides itself within the improvement of livestock waste therapy expertise and premium sustainable beef, and Olson Farms/TD Angus introduced a letter of intent to develop a forty five,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation close to North Platte, Nebraska.
The challenge will encompass three of Bion’s 15,000-head modules that may embody barns with photo voltaic panels, manure assortment and conditioning, biogas restoration and upgrading, ammonia seize and manufacturing of natural fertilizer merchandise, and clear water restoration. All processes and efficiency shall be third-party verified, USDA-certified, and recorded on blockchain, that may assist a clear and sustainable-branded premium product, with dramatic reductions in impacts to air, water, and soil.
Bion and Olson Farms/TD Angus will work collectively to create a definitive Joint Enterprise in early 2023, with development anticipated to begin within the second half 2023. That timeline is anticipated to provide preliminary beef and coproduct revenues by the tip of 2024 that may ramp up rapidly in 2025 to as much as 135,000 head of annual manufacturing.
Trey Wasserburger, Olson Farms/TD Angus’ associate, said, “We’re excited to make this Bion challenge a actuality. It’s an ideal match for our ‘conception to client’ mannequin, the place TD Angus bulls sire business calves at ranches everywhere in the nation. These calves are introduced again and fed at our family-owned feedyard and, starting in 2024, harvested in our native producer-owned packing plant. Till now, beef sustainability has at all times been a proclamation. We stay up for supplying beef that’s really sustainable, for producers and the atmosphere alike, and which have the pedigree and manufacturing historical past to confirm it.”
Invoice O’Neill, Bion’s CEO, stated “We discovered an awesome associate in Olson Farms/TD Angus. We’re impressed by Kirk Olson’s and Trey’s imaginative and prescient to provide cattle which might be higher for the buyer, higher for the planet, and higher for the producer. That’s an ideal complement to our personal imaginative and prescient and Bion’s mission. We actually stay up for working along with them as we roll out our expertise and enterprise platform and exhibit what really sustainable beef actually is.”
