Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) has been named the Corporate Conservationist of the Year by the Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM). This award recognizes corporations that have made a significant contribution towards conservation in the state of Missouri.
Roeslein joint venture marks milestone on hog manure energy project
Written by: Diana Barr
Published by: St. Louis Business Journal
Monarch Bioenergy, a joint venture between St. Louis-based Roeslein Alternative Energy and a division of Smithfield Foods Inc., has reached a milestone in their approximately $150 million bioenergy project.
Rudi Roeslein Receives National Lewis and Clark Conservation Award
Roeslein Alternative Energy is proud to announce that its Founder and CEO, Rudi Roeslein, has been selected as a recipient of a National Lewis and Clark Conservation Award. These awards are given annually to honor individuals and organizations that have made a noteworthy impact in conservation and conservation causes.
Roeslein Alternative Energy Welcomes Tim Johnston as Vice President
Roeslein Alternative Energy welcomes Tim Johnston to the team as Vice President. Tim has 40 years of experience in the natural gas industry. He previously worked with RAE on the design of gas production technology on Ruckman Farm.
Tim is the co-founder of Colorado Natural Gas, a company he started with a friend to deliver clean, safe and affordable natural gas to rural mountain communities in Colorado. Tim led the start-up through an expansion to roughly 280 employees. He left to pursue other interests in 2015.
Turning Liquid Gold Into Green Energy
Published by Ag Professional
Written by Sara Brown
On 1,000 acres in northwest Missouri, rolling fields filled with flowers and butterflies are the backdrop of a booming technology revolution on hog farms across the country. Acres of native pastures are just one part of Smithfield’s sustainability efforts to turn hog manure into biogas energy to heat homes across the country and further environmental sustainability goals at the same time.
Dominion Energy, Smithfield partner to turn hog manure into natural gas
Published by Daily Press
Written by Kimberly Pierceall
Dominion Energy announced Tuesday that it is teaming up with Smithfield Foods to turn that company’s hog manure into natural gas that could eventually heat homes and stoves.
Butterflies and biogas – A focus of Smithfield Foods
Published by Successful Farming
Written by Betsy Freese
Standing in an established pollinator patch means bees are regularly buzzing your head, but that doesn’t bother these three men. They are happy to see the bees and butterflies in this prairie planting.
Smithfield and Roeslein Alternative Energy help bring monarch butterflies back in large numbers
Published by High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the first food company to participate in a new program with Environmental Defense Fund and Roeslein Alternative Energy to restore key prairie habitat for monarch butterflies, as described in this video. Their efforts are helping bring back the iconic insect, which has experienced a 95 percent population decline since the 1980s and could be listed as a threatened species in June 2019.
Big agriculture helped destroy monarch butterfly habitats – now it’s trying to save them
Published by Fast Company
Written by Ellie Anzilotti
Over the past couple of decades, monarch butterflies, one of the most recognizable (and important) visitors to gardens across North America, have been declining in number–as much as 95% of the population has disappeared since the 1980s. The reasons are numerous: Mexico, where the pollinators migrate to escape harsh winters, has eliminated many of the trees where monarchs flock, and severe and unpredictable weather due to climate change has disrupted populations. And in the Midwest, where monarchs are most populous, farming practices that lean heavily on herbicides and pesticides are killing off native milkweed plants, where monarchs lay their eggs.