Published by Ag Annex
Written by Diane Mettler
What happens when you bring an alternative energy company and pig farms together? Well if the farm owner is Smithfield Foods Hog Production in northern Missouri, which finishes two million pigs a year, and the energy company is Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), the answer is a lot of renewable natural gas.
Published by Fox 2 Now St. Louis
Written by Chris Higgins
KIRKSVILLE, MO (KTVI) – Scientists from the University of Missouri are conducting extensive research on a farm northwest of Kirksville to see if restoring some of the state’s native prairie grasses could dramatically improve the health of our waterways and reduce the magnitude of river flooding in the future.
Published by Conservation Federation of Missouri
Written by Brandon Butler
Chris Brown had never turkey hunted before. As a sixth grade boy at Fayette Middle School, that left him in a minority. So when he asked me if I’d take him turkey hunting, I didn’t hesitate a second before telling him I’d be proud to. What he didn’t know was my plan included more than just hunting.
Published byNorth America Clean Energy
Roeslein Alternative Energy was named the 2016 Groundbreaker of the Year by BBI International, at the annual International Biomass Conference and Expo in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 12, 2016.
Written by Associated Press, posted originally on AP News. Also posted in Farm Forum, Washington Times, Society of Environmental Journalists, San Diego Union-Tribune, Bakken, Cincinnati, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
ALBANY, Mo. (AP) — One recipe for renewable natural gas goes: Place manure from about 2 million hogs in lagoons, cover them with an impermeable material and let it bake until gas from the manure rises. Then, use special equipment to clean the gas of its impurities and ship the finished product out.
Published by FOX 2 News Now St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Roeslein Alternative Energy of St. Louis is teaming up with Smithfield Foods in what is considered to be one of the largest anaerobic digestion programs in the United States. They are turning pig manure into power.
Published by Biomass Magazine
Written by Anna Simet
Construction of phase one of Roeslein Alternative Energy’s $80 million anaerobic digestion project is about halfway complete and on schedule to be operational by the middle of next year, the company reported.
Written by OK Energy Today
A Missouri-based renewable energy company says it hopes to have operational by 2016 a Renewable Natural Gas system using manure from hog farms in the Midwest. Roeslein Alternative Energy made the announcement this week at Ruckman Farm, one of the nine Smithfield Foods Missouri hog production facilities involved in the largest livestock manure project of its kind.
Published by Renewable Energy
The $120-million project will convert hog manure and biomass into renewable natural gas.
St. Louis-based Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) has announced that a turnkey facility to create and inject large quantities of renewable natural gas (RNG) into the national grid system, created from a large concentrations of finishing hogs in the Midwest, will be operational by mid-2016.
Published by St. Louis Public Radio
Written by Evita Caldwell
People in urban areas may not think about the importance of prairies. But beyond the asphalt, concrete and glass of the city, is a country rich in prairie land.