Bion Environmental Technologies Inc., an advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef company, and Dakota Valley Growers, a cattle feeder near Bathgate, N.D., announced a letter of intent to develop a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation. Annual production from the facility is expected to be approximately 42,500 head of premium sustainable beef cattle.
The Dakota Valley Growers (DVG) project will have indoor barns to ensure the cattle are adding protein instead of burning calories to stay warm or fight through mud. The barns will have slatted floors with continuous manure removal and processing. Anaerobic digesters will recover nearly 84,000 MMBTU of renewable natural gas (RNG), enough to replace 643,000 gallons of diesel with a low-carbon alternative transportation fuel.