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March 10, 2026

PERMANENTFARMING RECEIVES $183,750 STATE AGRICULTURE GRANT TO ADVANCE MANURE-TO-ENERGY RESEARCH

North Dakota APUC Award Validates PermanentFarming’s Integrated Beef Cattle and Renewable Natural Gas Platform

BISMARCK, N.D. — PermanentFarming Inc., doing business as Pergena Systems, has been awarded $183,750 by the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC) to study how beef cattle manure can be reliably converted into renewable energy and other value-added products. The award was approved at the APUC quarterly meeting on February 26, 2026 in Bismarck, and is the largest single grant in the current funding round, which totaled $398,821 across five projects statewide.

The APUC, a program of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture administered under Commissioner Doug Goehring, funds research and development of new and expanded uses for North Dakota agricultural products, with a focus on supporting rural communities and agricultural operations.

Pergena is developing an integrated beef cattle production system that combines comfort barn design, anaerobic digestion, and biofertilizer production to simultaneously improve animal performance, generate Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), and restore soil health. The APUC-funded study will advance the scientific foundation for converting beef cattle manure — one of the largest untapped biogas feedstocks in the United States — into renewable energy at commercial scale.

While dairy and swine operations account for the vast majority of the approximately 400 operating manure anaerobic digestion systems in the U.S., beef cattle have been almost entirely absent from the RNG market. Pergena's comfort barn design addresses the primary technical barrier — grit and sand contamination from clay-pack feedlot pens — that has historically made beef manure difficult to process in conventional digesters.

"This award from the State of North Dakota is meaningful recognition that what we're building addresses a real and pressing challenge for American agriculture," said Steve Polski, Pergena contact. "Beef cattle manure has been largely absent from every RNG inventory in the country. We intend to change that."

 The APUC grant supports PermanentFarming’s broader mission to create a fully integrated platform that benefits beef producers, improves soil health, and contributes clean, dispatchable energy to a grid facing significant capacity constraints driven by data center and industrial demand growth.

For more information, contact Steve Polski at 651.359.4776.

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About PermanentFarming

PermanentFarming is developing a fully integrated beef cattle and clean energy platform designed to convert animal operations into producers of Renewable Natural Gas, high-value biofertilizer, and improved animal performance — while flattening the volatility that has defined the beef cattle industry for generations.