By Bill Cooper
Hog manure and an improving environment are seldom, if ever, used in the same sentence. I was honored last week to be a media guest of Roeslein Alternative Energy, LLC at their north Missouri hog farm where they are successfully producing renewable natural gas from hog manure.
Published by Missouri Prairie Journal, Vol. 40 No. 2
Written by: Brandon Butler
Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) is through its initial phase as a startup company and is now tackling the challenge of a startup’s second phase–growth. With renewable natural gas (RNG) production underway from the anaerobic digestion of animal waste, RAE continues to look to the future and implementing the plan for Horizon 2, which focuses on RNG production from the digestion of prairie plant biomass.
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Partnership turns manure into money
Published in Rural Missouri, August 2019 issue
Written by Jim McCarty
Rudi Roeslein will be the first to tell you he’s no farmer, even though he owns two Missouri farms. The Austrian immigrant made his money building machinery to make beverage cans and selling it all over the world. Now 71 years old and wealthy enough to chase his dreams, Rudi has three lofty goals. He wants to find alternative sources of energy, protect the environment and create more habitat for wildlife.
Brandon Butler joins Nathan “Shags” McLeod and Trevor Morgan on theThe Morning Shag to discuss Roeslein Alternative Energy’s production of renewable natural gas from swine manure and prairie plants.
Published by NEMO News
Written by: Echo Menges
On June 10, 2019, the global pork producing juggernaut and largest tax-paying entity in Sullivan County, Missouri, Smithfield Foods, and a fairly new to Sullivan County business, Roeslein Alternative Energy, LLC, (RAE) invited an influential group of journalists to Milan, MO, to embark on a renewable energy show-and-tell tour.
Published by Brownfield Ag News for America
Written by: Julie Harker
Smithfield Foods is a partner in making natural gas out of hog manure. Methane gas is being captured by Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) at Smithfield hog production facilities in North Missouri – which is purified and sold as renewable natural gas (RNG) to the California market. Rudi Roeslein, CEO of the energy company, tells Brownfield Ag News it’s sold on the federal market through an EPA program, “Called the D3 RIN which tries to come up with material that’s produced from cellulose and manure is actually, in 2015, qualified as a cellulosic product of renewable natural gas.”
Published by Brownfield Ag News for America
Written by: Julie Harker
An alternative energy company making natural gas from Smithfield hog waste plans to soon make the same fuel from prairie plants.
Published by High Plains Journal
Written by: Laura Handke
In partnership, Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Hog Production are working to capture renewable natural gas from the waste of the approximate 2 million hogs that circulate through Smithfield’s northern Missouri operations each year.
Published by Yahoo Finance
New Renewable Natural Gas Infrastructure Installations to Begin in Multiple States
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce the construction of new biogas gathering systems in Missouri and Utah, which bring the company steps closer to delivering renewable natural gas (RNG) to communities in multiple states using manure from its hog farms. Detailed in its recently released Sustainability Report, Smithfield’s “manure-to-energy” projects are part of Smithfield Renewables, the company’s platform that unifies and accelerates its renewable energy efforts to help meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2025.
Published by Supermarket Perimeter
Written by Ryan McCarthy
Smithfield Foods Inc., announced on May 15 that Kraig Westerbeek, senior director of Smithfield Renewables and hog production environmental affairs, was named as an Environment + Energy 100 honoree. The program by the Environment and Energy Leaders Institute recognizes individuals for their leadership in environmental, energy and sustainability initiatives at their companies.