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Press Release · Renewable Energy & Fertilizer Production · Arkansas

Wert-Berater, Inc. Completes Fertilizer Production Facility Feasibility Study in Green Forest, Arkansas

An independent Fertilizer Production Facility Feasibility Study evaluating a fertilizer production facility with on-site energy generation on a rural Ozark site in Green Forest, Arkansas.

Industrial production facility with process tanks and storage silos in a wooded valley
Wert-Berater, Inc. Completes Fertilizer Production Facility Feasibility Study in Green Forest, Arkansas

For Immediate Release · 2026-05-22

Asset class
Renewable Energy & Fertilizer Production · Arkansas
Program
USDA FIELDS Grant — RD-RBS-26-01
Evaluated value
$244,098,940
Study conclusion
FEASIBLE, conditional on the execution gates identified in the study
Location
Green Forest, Arkansas, Carroll County
Completed
2026

GREEN FOREST, Arkansas — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Fertilizer Production Facility Feasibility Study in Green Forest, Carroll County, Arkansas.

Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant to the funding agency and the project underwriting file. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.

Project Summary

A $244,098,940 production facility on a rural Arkansas site, of which $208,479,813 is program-allowable under the grant's fertilizer-scope screen. The study separated the two questions the agency actually has to answer — whether the fertilizer scope stands on its own, and whether the wider facility can be executed — and answered them independently.

What the Project Included

Fertilizer production capacity with supporting on-site energy generation, together with the receiving, process, storage, and outbound logistics infrastructure the site requires.

Capital Structure

$244,098,940 total project cost, of which $208,479,813 is program-allowable under the fertilizer-scope screen; the balance sits outside program scope and is carried by the sponsor.

Feasibility Study Challenges

The study priced execution risk explicitly rather than treating the facility as routine. Coverage was reported three ways to keep the record honest: 1.52× fixed-charge coverage against obligations that actually exist, an illustrative 2.52× against a note that does not yet, and roughly nine times coverage of the one recurring maintenance reserve. The favorable determination is conditioned on execution gates — scope conformance, phased commissioning, and entity conformance — not assumed away.

About Wert-Berater, Inc.

Wert-Berater, Inc. is an independent feasibility study consulting firm founded in 1998, providing lender- and agency-facing feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use analyses, and capital-advisory support. The firm has completed more than 4,000 engagements across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating over $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. In every engagement, fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the applicable agency.

Media contact: Donald Safranek, MSc, President, Wert-Berater, Inc. — +1 310-857-2443 ext. 800. Press inquiries only; client, lender, and property identities remain confidential.

About this release. This announcement summarizes a completed, independent Wert-Berater engagement. Details have been anonymized to protect client and lender confidentiality; no borrower, lender, or property is identified. Figures reflect the project as evaluated at the study date.
Donald Safranek, MSc — President and feasibility study consultant, Wert-Berater, Inc.
Donald Safranek, MSc

President, Wert-Berater, Inc. — independent feasibility study consultants since 1998. More than 4,000 feasibility studies completed across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. Fiduciary duty runs to the lender and agency in every engagement.

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