New York City-based Bion Environmental Technologies Inc., a developer of livestock waste treatment technology, and Olson Farms/TD Angus, North Platte, Neb., on Jan. 9, announced a letter of intent to develop a 45,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation near North Platte, Neb.
The project will consist of three of Bion’s 15,000-head modules that will include barns with solar panels, manure collection and conditioning, biogas recovery and upgrading, ammonia capture and production of organic fertilizer products, and clean water recovery.
Bion said all processes and performance will be third-party verified, USDA-certified, and recorded on blockchain, which will support a transparent and sustainable-branded premium product with dramatic reductions in impacts to air, water, and soil.
Bion and Olson Farms/TD Angus will work together to create a definitive joint venture in early 2023, with construction anticipated to commence in the second half 2023. That timeline is expected to produce initial beef and coproduct revenues by the end of 2024 that will ramp up quickly in 2025 to up to 135,000 head of annual production.