No. By extracting poultry litter’s full value, Argo’s projects are self-sufficient, have committed private funding, and actually result in higher farmer revenue. Our solution ‘grows the pie’ for the community, rather than take away from it.

We bring in locally sourced material to an enclosed building. We then process the material through a biological process where all the streams are managed in a controlled system engineered to capture the products made in the system. Our products are essentially the same materials as the inputs, upgraded for more efficient utilization and sale.

Argo’s solution offers a year-round, centralized offtake for the region’s poultry farmers. This reduces the amount of nutrient pollution from land application and makes litter easier to track and verify.

No. We design our solutions based on the most advanced systems in the world to ensure that no odors leave our facility. The design basis for the project includes wet scrubbers, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal, and activated carbon; we are also building a closed-loop system to keep odorous air moving to these units under negative pressure.

We want to bring a solution to the local community, not create a nuisance. Similar projects are often co-located in heavily trafficked areas, such as breweries, and in urban environments where anaerobic digestion is more beneficial than aerobic treatment.

Our project increases farmer revenues, offers cost-effective fertilizers, and reduces operational risk. Combined, these benefits give farmers and large ag companies confidence to continue operating sustainably in their existing communities.

Yes. Our project will create well-paying operator jobs and temporary construction and engineering jobs with local firms. All jobs on the project are prevailing wage, which translates to a living wage from one job. Our current estimates are 14-20 operations jobs and 200-400 direct construction jobs (corresponding to 100-150 construction workers onsite at any given time). These figures do not take credit for any indirect job creation in the community. Some general studies have estimated 3-5 indirect jobs for every direct worker hired, which would significantly increase the impact. It is also worth noting that our project will increase the community's commercial tax base.

The project does not discharge any wastewater to the environment or to Publicly-Owned Treatment Works (POTW). Accordingly, we have no applied for an NPDES permit. We are also using buffer tanks instead of lagoons to keep any effluents or liquid byproducts in a closed-loop system.

The plant will work with local suppliers for sustainably supplied water. Relative to other users, the plant water volumes we are discussing can be managed into the community's systems. As an example of how much water the plant uses compared to other common situations, on an approximately one-hundred-acre site, a one-inch rainstorm on the property would be about 3,000,000 gallons of water collected. Another example is a center pivot system used to irrigate 0.25 inches would require about 750,000 gallons per day. The rain event is 30 times more water than is needed to operate the facility for a day. The center pivot use is more than 7 times greater than the plant use.

All our projects included a decommissioning plan and decommissioning bond. If the plant closes or fails to restore the site pursuant to the lease, the landowner (or site) has a bond to restore the site in accordance with the decommissioning plan.