Darling Ingredients Inc., Irving, Texas, opened a new organic fertilizer plant in Fremont, Neb., on July 1. The facility is located on a 10-acre site and has the ability to produce 35,000 st/y of Nature Safe Natural & Organic Fertilizers. The company said the new plant and finished product storage is designed to meet the needs of organic growers operating in the central region of the U.S. The Nebraska organic fertilizer facility will utilize product from several nearby Darling rendering plants.
This is the third organic fertilizer plant for Darling, which has operated Nature Safe out of its original Henderson, Ky., plant since the early 1990s. Henderson serves customers in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. Western customers are served by a new plant in Turlock, Calif., which opened on Jan. 2.
“The company is focused on a U.S. growth strategy where it could leverage Darling’s diverse supply of animal ingredients into the organic fertilizer market,” said Mike Manning, Darling Vice President of Organic Fertilizer and Innovation. With long-established U.S. rendering facilities that produce feather meal, blood meal, and meat and bone meal, Darling said the company’s Nature Safe brand produces the highest quality organic fertilizers on the market with cost-effective proficiency.