Dive Brief:
- Smithfield Foods, a producer of pork products based in Virginia, has formed two strategic partnerships that will use anaerobic digestion technology and agricultural waste to create electricity for the community.
- The company will transform agricultural waste into renewable energy at facilities in Northern Missouri and Milford, Utah, through a collaboration with Murphy-Brown LLC.
- Biogas will be made from finishing farms in Missouri. Through a collaboration between Roeslein Alternative Energy LLC and Murphy-Brown, the two plan to develop a $100 million renewable biogas project.
Dive Insight:
The president and CEO of Smithfield, C. Larry Pope, said "The bottom line is that our company's commitment to creating renewable energy is about to produce some very tangible and beneficial results."
