ARA Products
Biochar
Our biochar and bio-compost are made from the feedstocks produced from our farming community for commercial agriculture application.
Bio char is a carbon soil amendment that creates a porous structure to house micro-organisms and H2O, increasing organic matter and helping to reduce water usage.
ARA is the only bio char producer utilizing 100% renewable farm residue as their feedstock resource.
Bio Oil
ARA plans to focus on Bio-oil as part of the solution for long-term strategic government policy and environmental sustainability.
Our Bio-oil can be used as a fuel for engines and boilers, can be used to produce many natural based chemicals and can be upgraded to be used as fuel in the transport industry including aviation.
Green Electricity
The heat produced by our plant can be used in thermal heat conversion to generate electricity running our facilities and net metering back to the grid. Our Renewable Natural Gas can be converted to hydrogen which is recognized a a promising energy carrier of the future and can do so without CO2 emissions.
Benefits
Carbon Credits
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
We participate in the global carbon credit market allowing businesses and governments world wide to meet their greenhouse gas emission reduction goals
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Biochar helps slow the release of harmful greenhouse gases from the soil by locking carbon dioxide into a solid substance that is estimated to last for 100+ years
Sustainability
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
Sustainability
ARA is committed to maintaining a process that seeks to prevent the depletion of our natural resources.
Transportation
Manufacturing Process
Sustainability
Our plant is located in the community that produces the feedstock it uses. This decentralization reduces the transportation needs to run the plant.
Facilities
Manufacturing Process
Manufacturing Process
The ARA utilizes all of the heat, electricity and renewable natural gas produced by the plant to run the facilities from the dryer to the offices.
Manufacturing Process
Manufacturing Process
Manufacturing Process
By using a very low oxygen environment in which to produce our products, our plant does not emit harmful gases.
About Us
Darrel and Darlene Armstrong Partners
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Darrel and Darlene both graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Darrel with a physics degree and Darlene with a mathematics degree. Both taught for 5 years at the high school level in our local school before taking over the home farm in 1973.
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Ricky Barton is an entrepreneur from the mountains of central Appalachia. Since 2016, his focus has been on Rural Economic Development through the development of much needed infrastructure. In 2019, he identified carbon markets as a way to support rural development needs and built relationships with market markers in Forrest Carbon, Soil
Ricky Barton is an entrepreneur from the mountains of central Appalachia. Since 2016, his focus has been on Rural Economic Development through the development of much needed infrastructure. In 2019, he identified carbon markets as a way to support rural development needs and built relationships with market markers in Forrest Carbon, Soil Carbon and Biochar. Ricky spent 2020 developing platforms for holistic predictive data to support baselines for carbon projects worldwide.
Brian and Alison Armstrong Managing Partners
Ricky Barton Partner/Carbon Consultant
Brian and Alison Armstrong Managing Partners
Brian Armstrong graduated from the University of Wyoming with an economics degree and returned to the farm after graduation in 1995 where he now currently manages all operations, marketing and finances.
Alison Armstrong has worked as a certified paralegal for 25 years in Trust, Estates and Business Law. She moved to the farm in 2017 and
Brian Armstrong graduated from the University of Wyoming with an economics degree and returned to the farm after graduation in 1995 where he now currently manages all operations, marketing and finances.
Alison Armstrong has worked as a certified paralegal for 25 years in Trust, Estates and Business Law. She moved to the farm in 2017 and now manages contract work, grant work and government relations.