Rebuilding the nutrient cycle

Western Iowa business aims to build a more resilient, regenerative supply chain by converting organic wastes into stable, natural fertilizers.

For generations, food waste and other organic byproducts cycled naturally across Iowa farms. However, over time, increasing volumes of organic waste streams became underutilized or lost through food systems instead of being recovered and returned to the soil.

Natural Fertilizer Services, a western Iowa company, believes that challenge has created an opportunity.

Woodbine entrepreneur Abe Sandquist has spent...