Stovall Ranching Companies and Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. announced they will partner to develop a new-generation cattle feeding facility. Turk Stovall will join Bion?s Board of Directors and lead a joint venture between Stovall Ranching Companies and Bion to develop the project. The facility will produce premium quality Montana beef that the partners believe will be the ?cleanest?, most eco-friendly finished beef in the marketplace.

The Stovall/Bion cattle project is planned to construct a 15,000 head capacity facility at Stovall?s Yellowstone Cattle Feeders, in Shepherd, Montana. Cattle will be finished in barns designed for feed efficiencies and cattle welfare, while being outfitted with solar generation and advanced waste treatment and resource recovery systems provided by Bion?s patented closed-loop technologies. The Bion Gen3Tech system will harvest organic and low-carbon nitrogen fertilizers from the volatile ammonia in the waste, methane that can be upgraded to Renewable Natural Gas, and clean water.

Resource recovery will simultaneously minimize the facility?s environmental impacts to air or water. Most of the facility?s energy requirements are anticipated to be generated onsite with solar. Environmental benefits and improved resource efficiencies will be independently verified and communicated to stakeholders, and to consumers that increasingly demand eco-sustainable choices and are willing to pay for it.