Shepherd feed lot first in U.S. with planned facility to turn ‘manure into gold’ [Video]

SHEPHERD – The owner of Yellowstone Cattle Feeders in Shepherd plans to build a barn so that cattle can be kept indoors, which will increase efficiency for the livestock, including collecting methane and dealing with fertilizer.

It will be the first-of-its-kind facility for cattle in the United States that will bring more value to the mature.

“The manure waste is really our sweet spot,” said Craig Scott, Bion Environmental Technologies business development director. “We like to say that we’re turning that manure into gold.”

Yellowstone Cattle Feeders is capitalizing on manure, teaming up with Bion to better collect animal waste and turn it into a better fertilizer.

“Really a new age technology way of feeding cattle and more into a barn style to where we can collect that manure through slots and that will go down into a digester,” said Turk Stovall, Yellowstone Cattle Feeders owner. “And then the Bion Technologies will actually take that digester and make it into more …