---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001359687-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001359687"
company_name: "SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC"
filed_at: "2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:55:56.734081+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Trail Energy sells substantially all assets to Gevo for $210M

## Summary
- Sale closed Jan 31, 2025; Gevo (NASDAQ: GEVO) acquired assets for $210M, subject to adjustments.
- Cornerstone Bank loans repaid: $10M revolving note, $25M carbon-capture loan, plus $5.41M Ethanol Recovery Program loan.
- CEO Jodi Johnson's employment agreement terminated; she remains CEO and received $25k closing award.
- Grain merchandiser Ryan Weige terminated by company and hired by Gevo subsidiary.
- Company no longer maintains operations following the asset sale.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001359687-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001359687
- company_name: SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC
- filed_at: 2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000008/0001359687-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000008/red-20250131.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001359687-25-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ryan Weige was terminated as Grain Merchandiser at SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: Grain Merchandiser
  source text: Ryan Weige, the Company’s Grain Merchandiser, was terminated by the Company and hired by a subsidiary of Gevo.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000008/0001359687-25-000008-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  SOUTH 8 ENERGY, LLC completed a disposition involving Gevo, Inc. for $210 million (closed 2025-01-31).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: Gevo, Inc.
  - Consideration: $210 million
  - Closing: 2025-01-31
  source text: On the Closing Date, the Company closed on the sale of substantially all of its assets for a purchase price of $210 million (subject to adjustment based on the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement) (the “Purchase Price”) to the Buyers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000135968725000008/0001359687-25-000008-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.