−Removed: Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc.'s ("Bion,"
−Removed: "Company," "We," "Us," or "Our") was incorporated in 1987 in the State of Colorado.
−Removed: mission is to create extraordinary value for our shareholders and employees (all of whom own securities in the Company) while delivering
−Removed: premium, sustainable products to our customers (and other stakeholders) through ventures developing profitable, transparent, and sustainable
+Added: Summary and Overview
+Added: Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc.'s ("Bion," "Company,"
+Added: "We," "Us," or "Our") was incorporated in 1987 in the State of Colorado.
+Added: Bion’s mission is to create
+Added: extraordinary value for our shareholders and employees (all of whom own securities in the Company) while delivering premium, sustainable
+Added: meat products to our customers (and other stakeholders) through ventures developing profitable, transparent, and environmentally sustainable
solutions for livestock agriculture.
−Removed: Our patented and proprietary technology provides
−Removed: advanced waste treatment and resource recovery for large-scale livestock production facilities (also known as “Concentrated
−Removed: Animal Feeding Operations” or “CAFOs").
−Removed: Livestock production and its waste, particularly from CAFOs, has been
−Removed: identified as one of the greatest soil, air, and water quality problems in the U.S.
−Removed: Application of our third generation
−Removed: technology and business/technology platform (“Gen3Tech”) can largely mitigate these environmental problems, while
−Removed: simultaneously improving operational/ resource efficiencies by recovering high-value co-products from the CAFOs’ waste stream.
−Removed: These waste stream ‘assets’ – including primarily nutrients and methane – have traditionally been wasted or
−Removed: underutilized and are the same ‘pollutants’ that today fuel harmful algae blooms, contaminate groundwater, and
−Removed: exacerbate climate change.
−Removed: During the first half of 2022 Bion began marketing
−Removed: our sustainable beef opportunity to retailers, food service distributors and the meat industry in the U.S.
−Removed: In general, the response
−Removed: has been favorable.
−Removed: During July 2023, Bion announced a letter of intent (“Ribbonwire LOI”) to develop its first large-scale
+Added: Bion’s third generation technology-based platform (“Gen3Tech Platform” or
+Added: “Platform”) provides comprehensive environmental treatment for large-scale livestock waste streams (and other organic waste
+Added: streams), while simultaneously recovering resources that have traditionally been wasted or underutilized.
+Added: Bion’s platform performs
+Added: the dual benefits of improving profitability of production by upcycling those resources into value-added byproducts, while preventing
+Added: their release to the environment, where they contribute to surface- and groundwater and air pollution, climate change, and other air quality
+Added: Bion has identified three distinct market
+Added: opportunities for the Gen3Tech platform and its core Ammonia Recovery System (“ARS”) technology that captures,
+Added: stabilizes, and upcycles ammonia into low-carbon and/or organic pure nitrogen fertilizers.
+Added: Bion intends to pursue:
+Added: opportunity to ‘reimagine’ beef production ( within the existing industry supply chain) to produce premium and
+Added: sustainable grain-finished beef, with minimal impacts to water, soil, and air, and better economics to its producers;
+Added: 2) technology
+Added: licensing and/or joint venture opportunities internationally and in the U.S.
+Added: for post-anaerobic digester use of our ARS:
+Added: applications, and b) treatment of organic waste streams from food waste, food processing waste, biofuels, and other organic waste
+Added: streams whose processes include anaerobic digestion to produce renewable energy;
+Added: and 3) retrofit of existing large-scale livestock
+Added: facilities, of which there are hundreds of operations in the U.S.
+Added: alone (if not thousands – the exact number is not
+Added: Currently, Bion’s efforts are primarily focused on the sustainable
+Added: beef production opportunity.
+Added: We believe there is tremendous room for improvement in the beef production in this country.
+Added: The beef industry
+Added: today faces a wide range of challenges, from a fragmented commodity-producing industry with narrow margins to antiquated and inefficient
+Added: production practices.
+Added: Beef production and consumption is a primary target of the global ‘anti-meat’ messaging campaign from
+Added: consumer, investor, and environmental advocacy groups (and the industry’s competitors in the alternative plant-based and cellular
+Added: protein spaces).
+Added: Bion intends to produce truly sustainable beef, certified by USDA, with dramatic, third-party verified reductions in
+Added: the negative environmental effects by mitigating nutrient, greenhouse gas, and other environmental impacts.
+Added: To accomplish Bion’s
+Added: goal, we will partner with producers and other technology companies who provide solutions for different links of the beef value chain.
+Added: Our joint venture/strategic partner-focused business model is designed to deliver a premium sustainable product to the consumer and increased
+Added: profitability up and down the supply chain.
+Added: During September 2023, Bion successfully
+Added: completed the initial startup of its patented Ammonia Recovery System (“ARS)” at its commercial-scale demonstration and
+Added: optimization facility near Fair Oaks, Indiana.
+Added: The facility has now commenced an operational ‘optimization’ phase during
+Added: which modules will be tested/stressed to determine their operational characteristics and establish the best parameters (and related
+Added: control systems) for long term operation.
+Added: We have begun varying the ARS’s operating parameters with the goal of meeting and/or
+Added: exceeding the results needed for Bion’s economic models for large-scale commercial projects.
+Added: The Company expects the current
+Added: optimization phase will continue during the next quarter (or longer) and provide data required to support final design/engineering
+Added: for commercial project modules.
+Added: We believe this data will also provide additional potential stakeholders (cattle producers, cattle
+Added: feeders, packers, distributors, retailers and financial institutions) with the information they need to proceed with confidence in
+Added: collaborating with Bion on multiple new projects.
+Added: The ARS is the core of the Gen3Tech platform.
+Added: Once its operations have been
+Added: optimized, Bion will be able to begin final design to support permitting, and financing of its first commercial beef project.
+Added: To Bion’s knowledge, there is no comprehensive treatment solution
+Added: for beef manure waste other than our Gen3Tech Platform.
+Added: Further, Bion’s business model, which addresses the entire supply chain,
+Added: creates additional opportunities to improve on both environmental impacts and production efficiencies.
+Added: Bion has 30 years of experience
+Added: in livestock waste management and is building a world class team, focused on beef.
+Added: We believe we have a significant advantage as the $66
+Added: beef industry contends with its environmental impacts, inherent inefficiencies, and a changing consumer demographic.
+Added: Our patented and proprietary technology provides advanced
+Added: waste treatment and resource recovery for large-scale livestock production facilities (also known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding
+Added: Operations” or “CAFOs").
+Added: Livestock production and its waste, particularly from CAFOs, has been identified as one of the
+Added: greatest soil, air, and water quality problems in the U.S.
+Added: Application of our third generation technology (“Gen3Tech”)
+Added: and business/technology platform in conjunction with other industry practices (“Gen3Tech Platform” or “Platform”)
+Added: can largely mitigate these environmental problems, while simultaneously improving operational/ resource efficiencies by recovering high-value
+Added: co-products from the CAFOs’ waste stream.
+Added: These waste stream ‘assets’ – including primarily nutrients and methane
+Added: – have traditionally been wasted or underutilized and are the same ‘pollutants’ that today fuel harmful algae blooms,
+Added: contaminate groundwater, pollute the air and exacerbate climate change.
+Added: During the first half of 2022 Bion began
+Added: pre-marketing our sustainable beef opportunity to retailers, food service distributors and the meat industry in the U.S.
+Added: the response has been favorable.
+Added: During July 2022, Bion announced a letter of intent (“Ribbonwire LOI”) to develop a large-scale
commercial project - a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation together with the Ribbonwire Ranch, in Dalhart, Texas (with
a provision to expand to 60,000 head) (“Dalhart Project”).
−Removed: The Dalhart Project will be developed to produce blockchain-verified,
−Removed: sustainable beef (with reduced the stress on cattle caused by extreme weather and temperatures and resulting higher feed/weight gain efficiency)
−Removed: while remediating the environmental impacts associated usually associated with cattle CAFOs.
−Removed: Bion’s patented technology will treat
−Removed: the waste stream and recover/refine valuable coproducts that include clean water, renewable natural gas (RNG), photovoltaic solar electricity,
−Removed: organic fertilizer and potentially other products.
−Removed: We anticipate converting the Ribbonwire LOI into a definitive agreement with Ribbonwire
−Removed: Ranch and creating distribution agreements with key retailers and food service distributors during the current fiscal year.
+Added: During January 2023 Bion announced a letter of intent (“Olson
+Added: LOI”) to develop a large-scale commercial project - a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation together with the Olson
+Added: Feeders and TD Angus, near North Platte, Nebraska (with a provision to expand to 45,000 head or more) (“Olson Project”).
+Added: April 2023 Bion announced a letter of intent (“DVG LOI”) to develop a large-scale commercial project - a 15,000-head sustainable
+Added: beef cattle feeding operation together with Dakota Valley Growers near Bathgate, North Dakota (“DVG Project”).
+Added: experience to date, we believe we will not have great difficulty in securing participation from additional feeders/cattlemen in our Projects.
+Added: The Olson, Dalhart and DVG Projects (and subsequent Projects) will be developed to produce blockchain-verified, sustainable beef in customized
+Added: covered barns (resulting in reduced stress on cattle caused by extreme weather and temperatures and resulting higher feed/weight gain
+Added: efficiency) with ongoing manure transfer (through slatted floors) to anaerobic digesters (AD) to capture nitrogen/ammonia from the manure
+Added: stream before loss to the atmosphere and generate renewable natural gas (RNG) for sale while remediating the environmental/carbon impacts
+Added: usually associated with cattle feedlots and CAFOs.
+Added: Bion’s patented Gen3Tech platform will refine the waste stream into valuable
+Added: coproducts that include clean water, RNG, photovoltaic solar electricity and fertilizer (‘climate smart’ and/or organic) products.
+Added: We anticipate converting these LOIs into definitive JV agreements and creating related distribution agreements with key retailers and
+Added: food service distributors during the current fiscal year and the balance of 2024.
Bion’s business model and technology platform
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In the context of such JVs, we believe that the verifiable sustainable branding opportunities (conventional
−Removed: and organic) in meat will represent the single largest enhanced revenue contributor provided by Bion to the JVs (and Bion licensees).
−Removed: The Company believes that the largest portion of its business with be conducted through such JVs, but a material portion may involve
−Removed: licensing and or other approaches.
+Added: and organic) in meat will represent one of the single largest enhanced revenue contributors provided by Bion to the JVs (and Bion licensees).
+Added: The Company believes that the largest portion of its business with be conducted through such JVs, but a material portion may involve licensing
+Added: and or other approaches.
Bion’s Gen3Tech was designed to capture and
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Our business plan is focused on executing
−Removed: multiple agreements and letters of intent related to the “Bion Beef Opportunity” and commencing development of multiple
−Removed: sustainable beef joint venture projects over the next twelve-eighteen (12-18) months while moving forward with the Initial Project
−Removed: (see below) and the Dalhart Project.
−Removed: Bion also intends to pursue other opportunities in the livestock industry enabled by our
−Removed: Gen3Tech business model.
−Removed: The Ribbonwire LOI announcement has generated significant interest within the livestock industry
−Removed: (among ranchers, feedlot operators, farmers and other AG industry parties) and food distribution and retail industry.
−Removed: that this interest, combined with consumer interest in ‘sustainable products’ and the growing enthusiasm among some
−Removed: livestock industry parties for environmental/sustainable/regenerative practices, provides Bion (and its partners/venturers) with an
−Removed: opportunity to move forward with a truly sustainable solution in this industry segment.
−Removed: During the next six months, the Company intends to
−Removed: construct and begin operations of phase 1 of our Initial Project located near Fair Oaks, Indiana.
−Removed: Bion expects the Initial Project to
−Removed: provide data that illustrates the effectiveness of our Gen3Tech in a commercial setting by the end of the 2 nd quarter in 2023
−Removed: which will support development of the Dalhart Project (and other projects) during 2023 and thereafter.
−Removed: We believe this data will
−Removed: also provide additional potential stakeholders (cattle producers, cattle feeders, packers, distributors, retailers and financial institutions)
−Removed: with the information they need to proceed with confidence in collaborating with Bion on multiple new projects (see below).
−Removed: is now focused primarily on:
−Removed: i) development/construction of the Initial Project, our initial commercial-scale Gen3Tech installation (see
−Removed: below and Notes to Financial Statements ,
−Removed: ii) development/construction of the Dalhart Project, iii) developing applications and markets for its sustainable (conventional and organic)
−Removed: animal protein products and its low carbon organic fertilizer products , iv) discussions regarding initiation and development of agreements
−Removed: and joint ventures (“JVs” as discussed below) (and related projects) based on the augmented capabilities of our Gen3Tech
−Removed: business platform (in the sustainable beef and other livestock segments), while (v) continuing to pursue business opportunities related
+Added: multiple agreements and letters of intent related to additional sustainable beef JV projects over the next twenty-four (24) months while
+Added: moving forward with the Initial Project (see below) and commencing development of one or more of the Dalhart/Olson/DVG Projects (“LOI
+Added: Projects”)(and/or other Gen3Tech beef JV projects) while pursuing other opportunities in the livestock industry enabled by our Gen3Tech
+Added: business model.
+Added: The LOI announcements have generated significant interest within the livestock industry (among ranchers, feedlot
+Added: operators, farmers and other AG industry parties) and has led to and assisted our discussions with many ‘major s’---large
+Added: national and regional agriculture/livestock industry companies (including those involved with distribution and/or sales of meat products)
+Added: in the country which are ongoing at this date.
+Added: We believe that this interest, combined with consumer interest in ‘sustainable products’
+Added: and growing enthusiasm among some livestock industry parties for environmental/sustainable/regenerative practices, may provide Bion (and
+Added: its partners/venturers) with an opportunity to move forward with a truly sustainable solution in this industry segment at a rapid pace.
+Added: Based on our endeavors in executing multiple
+Added: agreements and letters of intent related to the “Bion Beef Opportunity”, we intend to commence development of multiple sustainable
+Added: beef JV projects over the next twelve-eighteen (12-18) months while moving forward with the Initial Project (see below) and one or more
+Added: of the LOI Projects.
+Added: Bion also intends to pursue other opportunities in the livestock industry enabled by our Gen3Tech business model.
+Added: During the past nine months, the Company has constructed
+Added: (construction is largely completed) our 3GTech Ammonia Recovery System (‘ARS’) at our Initial Project (our commercial scale
+Added: demonstration facility) located near Fair Oaks, Indiana and begun operations of phase 1 of our Initial Project .
+Added: We recently announced
+Added: that the ARS has achieved and maintained controlled steady-state operations under a variety of conditions.
+Added: When operated at steady state,
+Added: the system produces an ammonium distillate solution, the base of Bion’s nitrogen fertilizer products.
+Added: Bion has begun optimizing
+Added: the ARS’s operating parameters with the goal of meeting and/or exceeding the results needed for Bion’s economic models for
+Added: large-scale commercial projects.
+Added: The Company expects the current optimization phase will continue during the next quarter (or longer)
+Added: and provide data required to support final design/engineering for commercial project modules.
+Added: We believe this data will also provide additional
+Added: potential stakeholders (cattle producers, cattle feeders, packers, distributors, retailers and financial institutions) with the information
+Added: they need to proceed with confidence in collaborating with Bion on multiple new projects (see below).
+Added: The patented ARS is the core of Bion’s Gen3Tech platform.
+Added: The ARS recovers and upcycles problem ammonia contained in the effluent from anaerobic digestion (where methane is captured and more ammonia
+Added: is released) of the livestock manure waste stream.
+Added: The ARS captures the ammonia, minimizing its environmental impacts and creating low-carbon
+Added: and/or organic nitrogen fertilizer products with it.
+Added: Over during the next quarter, the Company intends to produce ammonium distillate
+Added: at Fair Oaks in several concentrations and initiate the application process for organic certification for each concentration of liquid
+Added: fertilizer product.
+Added: Bion will also produce a solid/granular nitrogen fertilizer product at the Initial Project (when the crystalizer module
+Added: is ready for operation during the next quarter) which we believe will be both ‘ClimateSmart’ and ‘Water-Smart’
+Added: – a pure nitrogen fertilizer with a low carbon footprint, that is water soluble and readily available to plants.
+Added: Samples of the
+Added: granular product will also be utilized to support organic certification applications.
+Added: See Fertilizer:
+Added: Organic and ‘ClimateSmart’
+Added: During the next three-six months , the Company intends
+Added: to fully complete construction of the Initial Project’s phase 1 (including the crystalizer module) and continue the optimization
+Added: Bion expects the Initial Project data will document the effectiveness of our Gen3Tech in a commercial-scale setting during
+Added: the current fiscal year and support development of the LOI Projects (and/or other Gen3Tech beef JV projects) commencing later this fiscal
+Added: We do not presently know the order in which these JV Projects will be developed as that decision will be made based on many
+Added: factors not yet in place.
+Added: We believe the Initial Project data will also provide additional potential stakeholders (cattle producers, cattle
+Added: feeders, packers, food distributors and retailers and financial institutions) with the information they need to proceed with confidence
+Added: in collaborating with Bion on multiple new projects (see below).
+Added: intends to focus primarily on:
+Added: i) completion of development/construction and operation of the Initial Project, our initial commercial-scale
+Added: Gen3Tech installation (see below and Notes to Financial Statements ) ,
+Added: and optimization of its operational parameters, ii) pre-development planning of the Dalhart, Olson and DVG Projects (and/or other Gen3Tech
+Added: beef JV projects) including steps toward distribution agreements, iii) developing applications and markets for its low carbon ‘ClimateSmart’
+Added: and organic fertilizer products (including listings/certifications of multiple liquid and solid products) and its sustainable (conventional
+Added: and organic) animal protein products, and iv) discussions regarding initiation and development of agreements and joint ventures (“JVs”
+Added: as discussed herein) (and related Projects) based on the augmented capabilities of our Gen3Tech business platform (in the sustainable
+Added: beef and other livestock segments), while (v) continuing to pursue :
+Added: A) licensing opportunities and B) business opportunities related
to large retrofit projects (such as the Kreider poultry project JV described below) and vi) ongoing R&D activities.
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While we anticipate a faster adoption of tracking, verification and sustainability technologies in
−Removed: other perishable food categories like produce and dairy due to their harvest and production techniques, meat industry leaders have also
−Removed: announced their willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
−Removed: Bion predicts that within approximately five years, consumers
−Removed: will be able to track and verify claims including sustainability on 25% (or more) of the products merchandised in the meat department.
−Removed: Bion believes that the retail market share of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % within three (3) years (end of
−Removed: 2025) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2027) (approximately 2,000,000 cattle annually) (and more thereafter).
−Removed: If Bion can successfully
−Removed: execute on its sustainable beef business plan, facilities utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will provide one-third (1/3) or more
−Removed: of that of the premium market segment (and a higher portion of meat that is actually traceable and verifiably sustainable).
−Removed: to have multiple sustainable beef projects under development (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of 2023.
−Removed: Our first commercial project
−Removed: is likely to be the Dalhart Project but we anticipate commencing additional sustainable beef projects during 2023 as well.
−Removed: target is to have at least three (3) facility modules (15,000 head per module)(“Modules”) in development/under construction
−Removed: during 2023 in three (3) different JVs with the initial barns being populated with livestock by fall/winter 2024-25.
−Removed: Further expansion
−Removed: in the number of distinct JVs is projected through 2025 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process --- each of which JVs will be pursuing development
−Removed: of multiple Modules with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2025 (approximately 2%-3% of the US beef market) and 30-45 Modules
−Removed: constructed and populated by 2027-28 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
−Removed: Bion’s current
−Removed: goal is that its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the verifiable “sustainable beef” category at the end
−Removed: of the period (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
+Added: other perishable food categories like produce and dairy due to their shorter product cycles (and related harvest and production techniques),
+Added: meat industry leaders have also announced their willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
+Added: Many companies have announced
+Added: ‘sustainability’ initiatives but most appear to consist largely of ‘greenwashing’ marketing commitments rather
+Added: than substantive undertakings at this date.
+Added: Note, however, that Tyson’s Brazen beef initiative (which was announced during March
+Added: 2023) may develop into a substantive competitive factor in the sustainable beef marketplace.
+Added: Bion predicts that within approximately five
+Added: years, consumers will be able to track and verify claims including sustainability on 25% (or more) of the products merchandised in the
+Added: meat department.
+Added: Bion believes that the retail market share of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % within three
+Added: (3) years (end of 2026) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2028) (approximately 6-7,000,000 cattle annually) (and more thereafter).
+Added: can successfully execute on its sustainable beef business plan (which is subject to many contingencies), we believe that JV facilities
+Added: utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will supply one-third (1/3) or more of that of the premium market segment (and a higher portion
+Added: of meat that is actually traceable and verifiably sustainable).
+Added: Our goal is to have multiple sustainable beef projects under development
+Added: (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of our 2025 fiscal year.
+Added: Our first commercial project is likely to be one of our current LOI Projects
+Added: but we anticipate commencing development of additional sustainable beef projects during the current fiscal year as well.
+Added: Our current target
+Added: is to have at least three (3) facility modules (15,000 head per module)(“Modules”) in development and/or under construction
+Added: during 2024 in three (3) different JVs with the initial barns being populated with livestock during 2025.
+Added: Further expansion in the number
+Added: of distinct JVs is projected through 2026-7 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process --- each of which JVs will be pursuing development of multiple
+Added: Modules with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2026 (approximately 2%-3% of the US beef market) and 30-45 Modules constructed
+Added: and being populated by 2029 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
+Added: Bion’s current goal is
+Added: that its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the verifiable “sustainable beef” category at the end of the
+Added: period (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
There is no assurance that the Company will reach
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anticipates having additional Gen3Tech projects underway in the pork/dairy/egg sectors of the US animal protein market.
+Added: In parallel with the business activities outlined
+Added: above, during the current fiscal year the Company intends to proceed with adding to its senior management personnel, while strengthening
+Added: its corporate governance (including environmental/social/governance steps (‘ESG’)) and seeking to ‘uplist’ its
+Added: common stock on a national securities exchange improve both liquidity and ability to access capital markets.
HISTORY, BACKGROUND AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Since the Company’s inception, Bion has designed and developed
−Removed: advanced waste treatment systems for livestock.
−Removed: The first and second generations of Bion’s technology platform were biological systems,
−Removed: primarily focused on nutrient control.
−Removed: Over 30 of these systems were deployed at New York dairies, Florida food processing facilities
−Removed: and dairies, North Carolina hog farms, a Texas dairy and a Pennsylvania dairy (“Kreider 1 Project”).
−Removed: The systems were highly
−Removed: effective at their intended purpose:
+Added: Since the Company’s inception, Bion has
+Added: designed and developed advanced waste treatment systems for livestock.
+Added: The first and second generations of Bion’s technology platform
+Added: were biological systems, primarily focused on nutrient control.
+Added: Over 30 of these systems were deployed at New York dairies, Florida food
+Added: processing facilities and dairies, North Carolina hog farms, a Texas dairy and a Pennsylvania dairy (“Kreider 1 Project”).
+Added: The systems were highly effective at their intended purpose:
capturing nitrogen and phosphorus.
−Removed: They produced BionSoil as a byproduct, which was a remarkably
−Removed: effective soil amendment/ fertilizer product, but whose value was not enough to support a viable business model.
−Removed: As such, these early
−Removed: technology iterations were entirely dependent on either implementation of new regulations requiring waste treatment, or subsidy/ incentive
−Removed: programs that would provide ‘payment for ecosystem services’.
−Removed: By the mid-2010’s, it became apparent that neither of
−Removed: these options were imminent or even assured, so the Company initiated the steps to reimagine and redesign its technology.
+Added: They produced BionSoil as a byproduct,
+Added: which was a remarkably effective soil amendment/ fertilizer product, but whose value was not enough to support a viable business model.
+Added: As such, these early technology iterations were entirely dependent on either implementation of new regulations requiring waste treatment,
+Added: or subsidy/ incentive programs that would provide ‘payment for ecosystem services’.
+Added: By the mid-2010’s, it became apparent
+Added: that neither of these options were imminent or even assured, so the Company initiated the steps to reimagine and redesign its technology.
From 2016 to 2021 fiscal years, the Company focused
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Meat and Impossible Burger (and many others) being marketed as “sustainable” alternatives for this growing consumer segment
−Removed: of the market.
+Added: of the market (despite the lack of verifiably sustainable attributes).
The Company believes that its Gen3Tech, in addition
to providing superior environmental remediation, creates opportunities for large scale production of i) verifiably sustainable-branded
−Removed: livestock products and ii) verifiably sustainable organic-branded livestock products, both of which will command premium pricing (in part
−Removed: due to ongoing monitoring and third-party verification of environmental performance which will provide meaningful assurances to both consumers
−Removed: and regulatory agencies).
−Removed: Each of these two distinct market segments (which the Company intends to pursue in parallel) presents a large
−Removed: production/marketing opportunity for Bion.
−Removed: Our Gen3Tech will also produce (as co-products) biogas, solar photovoltaic electricity in appropriate
−Removed: locations, and valuable low carbon organic fertilizer products, which can be utilized in the production of organic grains for use as feed
−Removed: for raising organic livestock (some of which may be utilized in the Company’s JV projects) and/or marketed to the growing organic
−Removed: fertilizer market.
−Removed: During July 2022, the Company entered into a letter
−Removed: of intent with Ribbonwire Ranch (Dalhart, Texas) (“Ribbonwire LOI”) setting forth the parties’ intention to negotiate
−Removed: a joint venture agreement (“JVA”) and enter into a joint venture (“JV”) to develop and operate an initial 15,000
−Removed: head integrated, sustainable beef facility on RWR property (“Dalhart Project”) including:
−Removed: a) innovative cattle barns (with slatted floors to facilitate movement of manure to the anaerobic digester
−Removed: and potentially solar PV generation on the rooftops which barns will improve the living conditions of the animals while increasing feeding/weight
−Removed: gain efficiency,
−Removed: b) ‘customized’ anaerobic digestion systems (including pretreatment to increase renewable natural
−Removed: gas (‘RNG’) production and an RNG cleaning system (which will include capture/recycling of the CO2) to allow pipeline sales
−Removed: and monetization of related environmental credits,
−Removed: c) a Bion Gen3Tech module (which will utilize the recycled CO2 to increase ammonium bicarbonate recovery)
−Removed: for the production of ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer for use in organic crop production (plus residual organic solids and clean water),
−Removed: d) which will produce verifiably sustainable beef products with USDA certified branding.
−Removed: The Dalhart Project will include expansion capability up to
−Removed: 60,000 head of cattle, in aggregate, located at/around/contiguous to the initial facilities on Ribbonwire property.
−Removed: The opportunity presented
−Removed: by the Ribbonwire LOI to commercialize the Company’s Gen3Tech and business model matured more quickly than anticipated (reflecting
−Removed: strong industry and public momentum in favor of verifiably sustainable food ventures).
−Removed: As a result, we have shifted our plans to focus
−Removed: resources and make our initial 15,000 head operation in Dalhart, TX a reality as soon as possible.
−Removed: To place the Ribbonwire LOI and the Dalhart Project in the context of Company’s
−Removed: business plan (and our prior public disclosure), if the contemplated venture moves forward on the timelines set forth in the Ribbonwire
−Removed: LOI, active development of the Dalhart Project will commence early in the second quarter of 2023.
−Removed: Prior to such activity, the Company intends to construct
−Removed: and operate the initial phase of the previously announced Gen3Tech demonstration project near Fair Oaks, Indiana (“Initial Project”):
−Removed: i) to validate our existing data and modeling at commercial scale and ii) to optimize the Bion Gen3Tech module for finalization of design
−Removed: parameters and fabrication details of our planned 15,000 head commercial facilities (including the Dalhart Project).
+Added: conventional livestock products and ii) verifiably sustainable organic-branded livestock products, both of which will command premium
+Added: pricing (in part due to ongoing monitoring and third-party verification of environmental performance which will provide meaningful assurances
+Added: to both consumers and regulatory agencies).
+Added: Each of these two distinct market segments (which the Company intends to pursue in parallel)
+Added: presents a production/marketing opportunity for Bion (but the former is far larger).
+Added: Our Gen3Tech will also produce (as co-products) biogas,
+Added: solar photovoltaic electricity in appropriate locations, and valuable low carbon/organic fertilizer products, which can be utilized in
+Added: the production of organic grains for use as feed for raising organic livestock (some of which may be utilized in the Company’s JV
+Added: projects) and/or marketed to the growing organic fertilizer market.
+Added: During 2022-23, the Company entered into 3 LOIs setting
+Added: forth the parties’ intention to negotiate joint venture agreement (“JVA”) and enter into joint ventures (“JV”)
+Added: to develop and operate 15,000 head integrated, sustainable beef facilities (with future expansion under consideration) including:
+Added: innovative cattle barns (with slatted floors to facilitate movement of manure to the anaerobic digester and potentially solar PV generation on the rooftops which barns will improve the living conditions of the animals while increasing feeding/weight gain efficiency,
+Added: ‘customized’ anaerobic digestion systems (including pretreatment to increase renewable natural gas (‘RNG’) production and an RNG cleaning system (which will include capture/recycling of the CO2) to allow pipeline sales and monetization of related environmental credits,
+Added: a Bion Gen3Tech module (which will utilize the recycled CO2 to increase ammonia nitrogen/ammonium bicarbonate recovery) for the production of ammonia nitrogen fertilizer for use in organic and/or ‘ClimateSmart’ low carbon crop production (plus residual organic solids and clean water),
+Added: which will produce verifiably sustainable beef products with USDA certified branding.
+Added: The opportunity presented by the LOIs to
+Added: commercialize the Company’s Gen3Tech and business model matured more quickly than anticipated (reflecting strong industry and public
+Added: momentum in favor of verifiably sustainable food ventures).
+Added: As a result, we have shifted our plans to focus resources and make our initial
+Added: 15,000 head operation a reality as soon as possible.
+Added: To place the LOI Projects in the context of Company’s
+Added: business plan (and our prior public disclosure), if the contemplated ventures moves forward on the timelines currently contemplated, active
+Added: development of the initial LOI Project will commence during 2024.
+Added: Prior to such activity, the Company has constructed
+Added: and commenced operation of the initial phase of our previously discussed Gen3Tech demonstration project near Fair Oaks, Indiana (“Initial
+Added: i) to validate our existing data and modeling at commercial scale and ii) to optimize the Bion Gen3Tech module for finalization
+Added: of design parameters and fabrication details of our planned 15,000 head commercial facilities (including the LOI Projects).
For the purposes
−Removed: of this initial phase, the Company, in order to accelerate the data acquisition phase, intends to utilize anaerobic digester effluent
−Removed: from the nearby/contiguous Fair Oaks dairy.
−Removed: Construction and related activities of this demonstration project have commenced with main
−Removed: module assembly on site targeted to commence during January 2023 (somewhat delayed due to supply chain constraints) followed by operations
−Removed: through the first half of 2023 to generate the required information.
−Removed: Thereafter, the Company will evaluate what, if any, additional facilities
−Removed: and testing will take place at that location.
−Removed: The Initial Project is not being developed at economic commercial scale
−Removed: or with an expectation of profitability due to its limited scale.
−Removed: However, successful installation, commissioning, and operations will
−Removed: demonstrate scalability, determine operating parameters at scale, and provide ongoing production and engineering capabilities, all being
−Removed: critical steps that must be accomplished before developing large projects with JV partners.
−Removed: The Company anticipates that it will negotiate additional letters of intent
−Removed: and enter into additional joint ventures related to the development of further commercial-scale sustainable beef projects over the next
−Removed: 6-18 months in addition to the Dalhart Project.
−Removed: As previously disclosed, during late September 2021,
−Removed: Bion entered into a lease for the development site of the Initial Project, our initial commercial scale Gen3Tech project, which Initial
−Removed: Project will be located on approximately four (4) acres of leased land near Fair Oaks, Indiana, and a related agreement regarding disposal
−Removed: of certain manure effluent with the Curtis Creek Dairy unit of Fair Oaks Farms (“FOF”).
−Removed: Design and pre-development work commenced
−Removed: during August 2021 and preliminary surveying, site engineering and other work is now underway along with site-specific engineering and
−Removed: The Initial Project was initially planned to be an environmentally sustainable beef cattle feeding facility, equipped with
−Removed: state-of-the-art housing and Bion’s 3G-Tech platform to provide waste treatment and resource recovery.
−Removed: Bion has designed the project
−Removed: to house and feed approximately 300 head of beef cattle.
−Removed: If all phases of the Initial Project are constructed, the facility will include
−Removed: Bion’s Gen3Tech platform including:
−Removed: i) covered barns (possibly including roof top solar photovoltaic generation), ii) anaerobic
−Removed: digestion for renewable energy recovery, iii) livestock waste treatment and resource recovery technology, iv) Bion’s ammonium bicarbonate
−Removed: recovery and crystallization technology and iv) data collection software to document system efficiencies and environmental benefits (with
−Removed: the Bion Gen3Tech facilities capable of treating the waste from approximately 1,500 head).
−Removed: The facility will be large enough to demonstrate
−Removed: engineering capabilities of Bion’s Gen3Tech at commercial scale, but small enough that it can be constructed and commissioned relatively
−Removed: Originally, construction and onsite assembly operations were targeted to commence sometime late in 2022, however, supply chain
−Removed: backlogs have delayed likely delivery dates for core modules of the Bion system to the site until sometime during January 2023.
−Removed: been moving forward with the development process of the Initial Project.
−Removed: See Note 3 “Property and Equipment” and Note 12 “Subsequent
−Removed: Events” (for activities since the start of the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year).
+Added: of this initial phase, the Company, in order to accelerate the data acquisition phase, is utilizing anaerobic digester effluent from the
+Added: nearby/contiguous Fair Oaks dairy.
+Added: Thereafter, the Company will evaluate what, if any, additional facilities and testing will take place
+Added: at that location.
The Initial Project is not being developed at economic
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all being critical steps that must be accomplished before developing large projects with JV partners.
−Removed: Specifically, the Initial Project is being developed
+Added: During September 2021, Bion entered into a lease for
+Added: the development site of the Initial Project, our initial commercial scale Gen3Tech project, which Initial Project will be located on approximately
+Added: four (4) acres of leased land near Fair Oaks, Indiana, and a related agreement regarding disposal of certain manure effluent with the
+Added: Curtis Creek Dairy unit of Fair Oaks Farms (“FOF”).
+Added: Design and pre-development work commenced during August 2021 and preliminary
+Added: surveying, site engineering and other work is now underway along with site-specific engineering and design work.
+Added: The Initial Project was
+Added: initially planned to be an environmentally sustainable beef cattle feeding facility, equipped with state-of-the-art housing and Bion’s
+Added: 3G-Tech platform to provide waste treatment and resource recovery.
+Added: Bion has designed the project to house and feed approximately 300 head
+Added: of beef cattle.
+Added: If all phases of the Initial Project are constructed, the facility will include Bion’s Gen3Tech platform including:
+Added: i) covered barns (possibly including roof top solar photovoltaic generation), ii) anaerobic digestion for renewable energy recovery, iii)
+Added: livestock waste treatment and resource recovery technology, iv) Bion’s ammonium bicarbonate recovery and crystallization technology
+Added: and iv) data collection software to document system efficiencies and environmental benefits (with the Bion Gen3Tech facilities capable
+Added: of treating the waste from approximately 1,500 head).
+Added: The facility is large enough to demonstrate engineering capabilities of Bion’s
+Added: Gen3Tech at commercial scale, but small enough that it can be constructed and commissioned relatively quickly.
+Added: Originally, construction
+Added: and onsite assembly operations were targeted to commence sometime late in 2022, however, supply chain backlogs (many pandemic associated)delayed
+Added: delivery dates for core modules of the Bion system to the site until during January 2023.
+Added: Construction has been substantially completed
+Added: related to Phase 1 of the Initial Project, shakedown operations undertaken and the operation is now focused on optimization of operation
+Added: See Note 3 “Property and Equipment” and Note 12 “Subsequent Events” (for activities since the start
+Added: of the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year).
+Added: The Initial Project is not being developed at economic
+Added: commercial scale or with an expectation of profitability due to its limited scale.
+Added: However, successful installation, commissioning, and
+Added: operations will demonstrate scalability, determine operating parameters at scale, and provide ongoing production and engineering capabilities,
+Added: all being critical steps that must be accomplished before developing large projects with JV partners.
+Added: Specifically, the Initial Project was designed/developed
to provide and/or accomplish the following:
−Removed: of Gen3Tech platform scalability
+Added: Proof of Gen3Tech platform scalability
Document system efficiency and environmental benefits and enable final engineering modifications to optimize each unit process within the Bion Gen3Technology platform.
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certification of sustainable branded beef (and potentially pork) product metrics.
−Removed: sufficient ammonium bicarbonate nitrogen fertilizer (“AD Nitrogen”) for commercial
−Removed: testing by potential joint venture partners and/or purchasers and for university growth trials.
−Removed: sustainable beef products for initial test marketing efforts.
−Removed: On January 28, 2022 Bion Environmental Technologies,
−Removed: (‘Bion’), on behalf of Bion 3G1 LLC (‘3G1’), a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a Purchase Order Agreement
−Removed: with Buflovak and Hebeler Process Solutions (collectively ‘Buflovak’) in the amount of $2,665,500 (and made the initial 25%
−Removed: payment ($665,375)) for the core of the ‘Bion System’ portion (without the crystallization modules which will be ordered and
−Removed: fabricated pursuant to subsequent agreements) of the previously announced Gen3Tech Initial Project.
−Removed: This Purchase Order encompasses the
−Removed: core of Bion’s Gen3Technology.
−Removed: On March 21, 2022 the Company received progress
−Removed: notice re completion of certain work in process and an invoice from Buflovak for the next 25% payment ($665,375) which was paid
−Removed: during the 2022 fiscal year.
−Removed: On June 6, 2022, the Company received progress notice re completion of certain work in process and
−Removed: an invoice from Buflovak for the third 25% payment ($665,375) which was paid on July 5, 2022 bringing
−Removed: the aggregate payments to $1,996,125 as of the date of this report.
−Removed: has worked with the Company on design and testing of its Gen3Tech over several years.
−Removed: 3G1 is working in concert with Integrated
−Removed: Engineering Services, the primary site engineering firm for the facility, on the integration of all project components/modules at
−Removed: the Initial Project site.
−Removed: Additional agreements have been entered into various professional services providers (engineers,
−Removed: surveyors, etc.) for work related to the Initial Project.
+Added: Produce sufficient ammonium bicarbonate nitrogen fertilizer (“AD Nitrogen”) in liquid and solid forms for commercial testing by potential joint venture partners and/or purchasers, for university growth trials and to provide samples (and related documentation) to support applications for organic and/or ‘ClimateSmart’ certifications.
+Added: Produce sustainable beef products for initial test marketing efforts.
+Added: On January 28, 2022
+Added: Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc.
+Added: (‘Bion’), on behalf of Bion 3G1 LLC (‘3G1’), a wholly-owned
+Added: subsidiary, entered into a Purchase Order Agreement with Buflovak and Hebeler Process Solutions (collectively
+Added: ‘Buflovak’) in the amount of $2,665,500 (and made the initial 25% payment ($666,375) for the core of the ‘Bion
+Added: System’ portion (without the crystallization modules which will be ordered and fabricated pursuant to subsequent
+Added: agreements) of the previously announced 3G Tech Initial Project.
+Added: This Purchase Order encompasses the core of Bion’s 3G
+Added: Subsequent agreements were executed with engineering firms, contractors and other entities related to the construction
+Added: of the Initial Project.
+Added: The Company received progress billing in March 2022 and June 2022 for the second and third 25% installments,
+Added: both of which have been paid as of the filing date.
+Added: On January 17, 2023 the Company received an invoice from Buflovak for $533,100
+Added: which was paid on March 1, 2023 and on April 24, 2023 for $83,275 which was paid on May 2, 2023 bringing the aggregate payments to
+Added: $2,615,500 as of the date of this filing.
+Added: There remaining $50,000 open on the Purchase Order has been billed on July 26,2023.
+Added: addition to the Purchase Order, the Company has incurred additional costs of $4,182,260 on the Initial Project for capitalized
+Added: interest and costs, non-cash compensation and consulting fees.
+Added: $3,962,207 has been paid and $220,053 has been billed and not yet
The Initial Project will be carried out in stages
−Removed: with phase one focused on portions of items i.
+Added: with phase one focused largely on portions of items i.
set forth above.
Upon completing the primary goals of phase 1 of the
−Removed: Initial Project (coupled with obtaining organic certifications(s) for our solid ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer product line),
−Removed: Bion expects to be ready to move forward with its plans for development of much larger facilities including the Dalhart Project including
−Removed: final design of its Gen3Tech modules.
−Removed: The Company anticipates that discussions and negotiations it has begun (together with additional
−Removed: opportunities that will be generated over the next 6-12 months) regarding potential JVs with strategic partners in the financial, livestock
−Removed: and food distribution industries to develop large scale projects will continue during the development/construction of the Initial Project
−Removed: with a 2023 goal of establishing multiple JV’s for large scale projects that will produce sustainable and/or sustainable-organic
+Added: Initial Project (coupled with obtaining organic certifications(s) for our liquid and/or solid ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer product
+Added: lines), Bion expects to be ready to move forward with its plans for development of much larger facilities such as the LOI Projects, by
+Added: moving toward final design of its Gen3Tech modules.
+Added: The Company anticipates that discussions and negotiations it has begun (together with
+Added: additional opportunities that will be generated over the next 12-24 months) regarding potential JVs with strategic partners in the financial,
+Added: livestock and food distribution industries to develop large scale projects will continue during the optimization operations of the Initial
+Added: Project with a 2024 goal of establishing multiple JV’s for large scale projects that will produce sustainable and/or sustainable-organic
corn-fed beef.
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modules to an alternative permanent location.
−Removed: The Company is in discussion with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to jointly develop
−Removed: an integrated beef facility based on Bion’s Gen3Tech and business model at its Klosterman Feedyard Innovation Center (“KFIC”)
−Removed: (or other mutually agreed upon location) which facility will include innovative barns, an anaerobic digester and a Bion Gen3Tech system
+Added: The Company has engaged in discussion with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to jointly
+Added: develop an integrated beef facility based on Bion’s Gen3Tech and business model at its Klosterman Feedyard Innovation Center (“KFIC”)
+Added: (or other mutually agreed upon location) which facility would include innovative barns, an anaerobic digester and a Bion Gen3Tech system
to conduct ongoing research and development related thereto and the KFIC is a possible site for the long-term re-location of the core
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The Company will also evaluate re-locating
−Removed: the core module of the Initial Project to Dalhart, Texas, where it might be integrated into the first phases of the Dalhart Project.
−Removed: The Company’s initial ammonium bicarbonate
−Removed: liquid product completed its Organic Materials Review Institute (“OMRI”) application and review process with approval during
−Removed: Applications for our first solid ammonium bicarbonate product line have been filed with OMRI, the California Department of
−Removed: Food & Agriculture (“CDFA”) and the Iowa Organic Program (“IOP”) and are in the review processes (which is
−Removed: likely to require an extended period of time and multiple procedural steps, in part due to the novel nature of our Gen3Tech in the context
−Removed: of organic certifications).
−Removed: See “ Organic Fertilizer Listing/Certification Process ” below.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company believes there will
−Removed: also be opportunities to proceed with selected ‘retrofit projects’ of existing facilities (see ‘ Gen3Tech Kreider
+Added: the core module of the Initial Project to Dalhart, Texas, where it might be integrated into the first phases of the Dalhart Project and/or
+Added: to other locations.
+Added: Additionally, the Company believes there will also
+Added: be opportunities to proceed with selected ‘retrofit projects’ of existing facilities (see ‘ Gen3Tech Kreider 2
Poultry Project ’ below as an example) in the swine, dairy and poultry industries utilizing our Gen3Tech.
−Removed: Bion believes that substantial unmet demand
−Removed: currently exists– potentially very large – for ‘real’ meat/ dairy/ egg products that offer the
−Removed: verifiable/believable sustainability consumers seek, but with the taste and texture they have come to expect from American beef and
−Removed: pork, dairy and poultry.
−Removed: Numerous studies demonstrate the U.S.
−Removed: consumers’ preferences for sustainability.
−Removed: For example, 2019
−Removed: NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business study found that ‘products marketed as sustainable grew 5.6 times faster
−Removed: than those that were not…’ and that ‘…in more than 90 percent of consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) categories,
−Removed: sustainability-marketed products grew faster than their conventional counterparts.’ Sales growth of plant-based alternatives,
−Removed: including both dairy and more recently ground meat (Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, etc.) have shown that a certain segment of
−Removed: consumers is choosing seemingly sustainable food product offerings, and are also willing to pay a premium for it.
−Removed: Numerous studies
−Removed: also support the consumers’ ‘willingness-to-pay’ (WTP) for sustainable choices, including a recent meta-analysis
−Removed: of 80 worldwide studies with results that calculate the overall WTP premium for sustainability is 29.5 percent on average.
+Added: Gen3Tech Beef Business Model
As one of the largest contributors to some of the
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that can participate in the growth and premium pricing that appears to be readily available for the ‘right’ products.
−Removed: Gen3Tech Beef Business Model
−Removed: Bion believes that at least a premium segment of the
−Removed: beef industry (and potentially other livestock industry groups) is at the doorstep of a transformative opportunity to address the
−Removed: growing demand for sustainable food product offerings, while pushing back against today’s anti-meat messaging.
−Removed: At $66 billion/year
−Removed: (2021 wholesale/farmgate value), the beef industry is a fragmented, commodity industry whose practices date back decades.
−Removed: In 1935 inflation-adjusted
−Removed: terms, beef is 63% more expensive today, while pork and chicken, which are now primarily raised in covered barns, at CAFOs with highly
−Removed: integrated supply chains, are 12% and 62% cheaper, respectively.
−Removed: In recent years, the beef industry has come under increasing fire
−Removed: from advocacy groups, regulatory agencies, institutional investors, and ultimately, their own consumers, over concerns that include climate
−Removed: change, water pollution, food safety, and the treatment of animals and workers.
+Added: Bion believes that substantial unmet demand currently
+Added: exists– potentially very large – for ‘real’ meat/dairy/egg products that offer the verifiable/believable sustainability
+Added: consumers seek, but with the taste and texture they have come to expect from American beef and pork, dairy and poultry.
+Added: Numerous studies
+Added: demonstrate the U.S.
+Added: consumers’ preferences for sustainability.
+Added: For example, 2019 NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business
+Added: study found that ‘products marketed as sustainable grew 5.6 times faster than those that were not…’ and that ‘…in
+Added: more than 90 percent of consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) categories, sustainability-marketed products grew faster than their conventional
+Added: counterparts.’ Sales growth of plant-based alternatives, including both dairy and more recently ground meat (Beyond Meat, Impossible
+Added: Foods, etc.) have shown that a large, but apparently limited, segment of consumers is choosing a seemingly sustainable offering, and are
+Added: also willing to pay a premium for it.
+Added: Tyson Foods, in the context of launching its Brazen beef initiative, recently said, “consumers
+Added: would be willing to pay at least 24 percent more for environmentally friendly, sustainable options at retail.” Numerous studies
+Added: also support the consumers’ ‘willingness-to-pay’ (WTP) for sustainable choices, including a recent meta-analysis of
+Added: 80 worldwide studies with results that calculate the overall WTP premium for sustainability is 29.5 percent on average.
+Added: In terms of changing customer preferences, ‘saving
+Added: the planet’ has proven to be a more compelling argument than the traditional animal activism/ welfare pitch.
+Added: To date, the primary
+Added: beef ‘industry response’ to this has been grass-fed beef, which is regarded as a generally more sustainable offering than
+Added: grain-fed (largely without support in empirical evidence).
+Added: However grass-fed beef has had only limited acceptance in U.S.
+Added: markets, because
+Added: it is less flavorful and tougher than the traditional corn-fed beef consumers have grown to enjoy.
+Added: Sustainability initiatives have been
+Added: launched by large US livestock producers (including Tyson’s very recent ‘Brazen’ program), but it is not yet possible
+Added: to determine the extent the attributes of such products will be substantive and verifiable rather than completely ‘modeled’
+Added: and largely public relations ‘greenwashing’.
Advocacy groups targeting livestock and the beef industry
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on the industry’s impacts on climate change.
−Removed: Meat alternatives, especially plant-based protein producers like Beyond Meat and Impossible
−Removed: Foods, are being heavily promoted by themselves and the media, and initially enjoyed steady sales growth until sales began flattening
−Removed: over the past 12-18 months.
−Removed: A 2018 NielsenIQ Homescan survey last year found that 39% of Americans are actively trying to eat more plant-based
−Removed: Some of the recent growth in plant-based proteins results from increasing lactose intolerance and other health concerns;
−Removed: most of that growth is attributed to consumers’ growing concerns for the environmental impacts of real meat and dairy.
−Removed: Several large
−Removed: US companies that have traditionally focused on livestock production, including Cargill, ADM, Perdue Foods, and Tyson, have recently entered
−Removed: the plant protein space.
−Removed: In terms of changing customer preferences, ‘saving the planet’ has proven to be a more compelling
−Removed: argument than the traditional animal activism/ welfare pitch.
−Removed: To date, the primary beef ‘industry response’ to this has been
−Removed: grass-fed beef, which is regarded as a generally more sustainable offering than grain-fed (largely without empirical evidence) plus a
−Removed: patina of initiatives invoking the vague term ‘regenerative’ agriculture.
−Removed: However grass-fed beef has had only limited acceptance
−Removed: markets, because it is less flavorful and tougher than the traditional corn-fed beef consumers have grown to enjoy.
+Added: A 2018 NielsenIQ Homescan survey last year found that 39% of Americans are actively
+Added: trying to eat more plant-based foods.
+Added: Some of the recent growth in plant-based proteins results from increasing lactose intolerance and
+Added: other health concerns;
+Added: however, most of that growth is attributed to consumers’ growing concerns for the environmental impacts of
+Added: real meat and dairy.
+Added: Several large US companies that have traditionally focused on livestock production, including Cargill, ADM, Perdue
+Added: Foods, and Tyson, have also recently entered the plant protein space.
+Added: However, while meat alternatives, especially plant-based protein
+Added: producers like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, have been heavily promoted (by themselves and the media) and enjoyed remarkable initial
+Added: sales growth until recently, sales have flattened and/or declined over the past 18 months.
It should be noted that these plant-based protein
−Removed: producers are primarily expected to be able to serve the ground/ processed meat market, segment which represents only about 10 percent
−Removed: of the overall animal protein market.
−Removed: Further, there has recently been pushback to these plant-based products, focusing on their highly
−Removed: processed nature and unproven health benefits, scalability/ pricing, and their uncertain carbon footprint.
−Removed: There have also been several
−Removed: companies recently enter the cellular and 3D-printed meat arena.
−Removed: While facing myriad technical and economic challenges and further out
−Removed: on the development timeline, some people believe cellular agriculture (aka cultured, clean, lab-grown, cultivated) meat may have the potential
−Removed: to service a much larger percentage of the market than plant-based protein, including cuts like steaks, chops and roasts, but the likely
−Removed: cost and timeline for availability remain very uncertain at this point.
+Added: producers are primarily expected to be able to serve the ground/ processed meat market, which represents only about 10 percent of the
+Added: overall animal protein market.
+Added: Further, there has recently been pushback to these plant-based products, focusing on their highly processed
+Added: nature and unproven health benefits, scalability/ pricing, and their uncertain carbon footprint---and market growth rates have substantially
+Added: slowed and may have already plateaued and/or peaked.
+Added: There have also been several companies recently enter the cellular and 3D-printed
+Added: While facing myriad challenges and further out on the development timeline, some people believe cellular agriculture (aka
+Added: cultured, clean, lab-grown, cultivated) meat may have the potential to service a much larger percentage of the market than plant-based
+Added: protein, including cuts like steaks, chops and roasts, but the likely cost remains very uncertain at this point.
Each of these items supports Bion’s belief that
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the superior taste and texture those consumers have grown to prefer.
−Removed: the beef industry has largely continued historic practices, the dairy industry has housed milk cows in barns and has been processing
−Removed: cow waste through anaerobic digesters (ADs) to generate energy for years.
+Added: the beef industry has largely continued historic practices, the dairy industry has housed milk cows in barns and has been processing cow
+Added: waste through anaerobic digesters (ADs) to generate energy for years.
In recent years the renewable biogas (RNG) from the dairy ADs
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a) utilize custom designed barns (which enable a more
−Removed: controlled and monitored husbandry environment (and photovoltaic solar electricity generation utilizing the rooftops), b) with continual
−Removed: manure transfer to ADs, c) which produce RNG and related environmental revenues, and d) then channel the AD waste (including CO2 recovered
−Removed: from the RNG processing/cleanup) through a series of patented technologies to refine the waste into its various components.
−Removed: below depicts a simplified facility schematic/flow chart:
+Added: controlled and monitored husbandry environment) and photovoltaic solar electricity generation utilizing the rooftops (where climate conditions
+Added: permit), b) with continual manure transfer to anaerobic digesters (“ADs”), c) which produce RNG and related environmental
+Added: revenues, and d) then channel the AD waste (including CO2 recovered from the RNG processing/cleanup) through a series of patented technologies
+Added: to refine the waste into its various components.
+Added: The diagram below depicts a simplified facility schematic/flow chart:
This overall business model unites several interrelated
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a) premium ‘sustainable branded’ beef, b) renewable energy and energy/environmental/carbon-related
−Removed: credits, c) organic fertilizer products and d) nutrient credits.
+Added: credits, c) fertilizer products (organic and/or ‘ClimateSmart’) and d) nutrient credits.
Sustainable Beef
−Removed: Bion’s goal is to be first to market with meaningfully
−Removed: verified sustainable beef products that can be produced at sufficient scale to service national market demand.
−Removed: The cattle produced at
−Removed: a Bion facility will have a substantially lower carbon footprint, dramatically reduced nutrient impacts to water and air, and an almost
−Removed: total pathogen kill in the waste stream.
−Removed: Further, the economics of producing these cattle (including the cost of the facility/technology
−Removed: upgrade) will be greatly enhanced by the revenue realized from the recovery of valuable resources, including renewable energy, high-value
−Removed: fertilizer products, and clean water.
+Added: Bion’s goal is to be first (or at least early)
+Added: to market with meaningfully verified sustainable beef products that can be produced at sufficient scale to service national market demand.
+Added: The cattle produced at Bion facilities will have a substantially lower carbon footprint, dramatically reduced nutrient impacts to water
+Added: and air, and an almost total pathogen kill in the waste stream.
+Added: Further, the economics of producing these cattle (including the cost of
+Added: the facility/technology upgrade) will be greatly enhanced by the revenue realized from the recovery of valuable resources, including renewable
+Added: energy, high-value fertilizer products, and clean water.
A Bion sustainable beef facility (see diagram above)
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washing’ public proclamations in the wake of environmental and social criticism that re-package prior initiatives and lack any significant
−Removed: new substance.
+Added: new substance (excepting Tyson’s ‘Brazen’ announcement this past Spring which appears to have some substance).
At present, there is essentially no traceable and
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While we anticipate a faster adoption of tracking, verification and sustainability technologies in
−Removed: other perishable food categories like produce and dairy due to their harvest and production techniques, meat industry leaders have also
−Removed: announced their willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
−Removed: Bion predicts that within approximately five years, consumers
−Removed: will be able to track and verify claims including sustainability on 25% (or more) of the products merchandised in the meat department.
−Removed: Bion believes that the retail market share of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % within three (3) years (end of
−Removed: 2025) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2027) (approximately 2,000,000 cattle annually).
−Removed: If Bion can successfully execute on its sustainable
−Removed: beef business plan, facilities utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will provide one-third (1/3) or more of that of the premium market
−Removed: segment (and a higher portion of meat that is actually traceable and verifiably sustainable).
−Removed: Our goal is to have multiple sustainable
−Removed: beef projects under development (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of 2023.
−Removed: Our first commercial project is likely to be the Dalhart
−Removed: Project but we anticipate commencing additional sustainable beef projects during 2023 as well.
−Removed: Our current target is to have at least
−Removed: three (3) facility modules (15,000 head per module)(“Modules”) in development/under construction during 2023 in three (3)
−Removed: different JVs with the initial barns being populated with livestock by fall/winter 2024-25.
−Removed: Further expansion in the number of distinct
−Removed: JVs is projected through 2025 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process --- each of which JVs will be pursuing development of multiple Modules --
−Removed: with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2025 (approximately 2%-3%% of the US beef market) and 30-45 Modules constructed
−Removed: and populated by 2027-28 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
−Removed: Bion’s current goal is that
−Removed: its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the verifiable “sustainable beef” category at the end of the period
−Removed: (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
+Added: other perishable food categories like produce and dairy due to their shorter product cycles (and related harvest and production techniques),
+Added: meat industry leaders have also announced their willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
+Added: Many companies have announced
+Added: ‘sustainability’ initiatives but most appear to consist largely of ‘greenwashing’ marketing commitments rather
+Added: than substantive undertakings at this date.
+Added: Note, however, that Tyson’s Brazen beef initiative (which was announced during March
+Added: 2023) may develop into a substantive competitive factor in the sustainable beef marketplace.
+Added: Bion predicts that within approximately five
+Added: years, consumers will be able to track and verify claims including sustainability on 25% (or more) of the products merchandised in the
+Added: meat department.
+Added: Bion believes that the retail market share of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % within three
+Added: (3) years (end of 2026) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2028) (approximately 6-7,000,000 cattle annually) (and more thereafter).
+Added: can successfully execute on its sustainable beef business plan (which is subject to many contingencies), we believe that JV facilities
+Added: utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will supply one-third (1/3) or more of that of the premium market segment (and a higher portion
+Added: of meat that is actually traceable and verifiably sustainable).
+Added: Our goal is to have multiple sustainable beef projects under development
+Added: (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of our 2025 fiscal year.
+Added: Our first commercial project is likely to be one of our current LOI Projects
+Added: but we anticipate commencing development of additional sustainable beef projects during the current fiscal year as well.
+Added: Our current target
+Added: is to have at least three (3) facility modules (15,000 head per module)(“Modules”) in development and/or under construction
+Added: during 2024 in three (3) different JVs with the initial barns being populated with livestock during 2025.
+Added: Further expansion in the number
+Added: of distinct JVs is projected through 2026-7 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process --- each of which JVs will be pursuing development of multiple
+Added: Modules with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2026 (approximately 2%-3% of the US beef market) and 30-45 Modules constructed
+Added: and being populated by 2029 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
+Added: Bion’s current goal is
+Added: that its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the verifiable “sustainable beef” category at the end of the
+Added: period (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
There is no assurance that the Company will reach
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In addition to the sustainable practices described above,
−Removed: organic-sourced beef cows would be finished on organic corn, which would be produced using the ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer captured
−Removed: by the Gen3Tech platform.
+Added: organic-sourced beef cows would be finished on organic corn, which would be produced using the ammonia nitrogen fertilizer captured by
+Added: the Gen3Tech platform.
Bion believes its meat products will meet consumer demands with respect to sustainability and safety (organic)
−Removed: and provide the tenderness and taste American consumers have come to expect from premium conventional American beef.
−Removed: Such products are
−Removed: largely unavailable in the market today.
−Removed: We believe Bion’s unique ability to produce the fertilizer needed to grow a supply of relatively
−Removed: low-cost organic corn, and the resulting opportunity to produce organic beef, will dramatically differentiate us from potential competitors.
−Removed: This organic opportunity is dependent on successfully establishing Bion’s fertilizer products as acceptable for use in organic grain
−Removed: Today, organic beef demand is limited and mostly supplied with
−Removed: grass-fed cattle.
+Added: and and also provide the tenderness and taste American consumers have come to expect from premium conventional American beef that has
+Added: been missing in current organic beef products.
+Added: Such products are largely unavailable in the market today.
+Added: We believe Bion’s unique
+Added: ability to produce the fertilizer needed to grow a supply of relatively low-cost organic corn, and the resulting opportunity to produce
+Added: organic beef, will dramatically differentiate us from potential competitors.
+Added: This organic opportunity is dependent on successfully establishing
+Added: Bion’s fertilizer products as acceptable for use in organic grain production.
+Added: Today, organic beef demand is limited and
+Added: mostly supplied with grass-fed cattle.
While organic ground/ chopped meat has enjoyed success in U.S.
−Removed: markets, grass-fed steaks have seen limited acceptance,
−Removed: mostly resulting from consumer issues with taste and texture.
+Added: markets, grass-fed steaks have seen
+Added: limited acceptance, mostly resulting from consumer issues with taste and texture.
In other words, it’s tough.
−Removed: Regardless, such steaks sell for a significant
−Removed: premium over conventional beef.
−Removed: A grain-finished organic beef product is largely unavailable in the marketplace today due to the higher
−Removed: costs of producing organic corn and grain.
−Removed: The exception is offerings that are very expensive from small ‘boutique’ beef
+Added: Regardless, such steaks
+Added: sell for a significant premium over conventional beef.
+Added: A grain-finished organic beef product is largely unavailable in the marketplace
+Added: today due to the higher costs of producing organic corn and grain.
+Added: The exception is offerings that are very expensive from small ‘boutique’
+Added: beef producers.
Like all plants, corn requires nitrogen to grow.
−Removed: Corn is especially sensitive to a late-season application of readily available
−Removed: nitrogen – the key to maximizing yields.
−Removed: With non-organic field corn, this nitrogen is supplied by an application of a low-cost
−Removed: synthetic fertilizer, such as urea or anhydrous ammonia.
−Removed: However, the cost for suitable nitrogen fertilizer that can be applied late-season
−Removed: in organic corn production is so high that the late-season application becomes uneconomical, resulting in substantially lower yields
−Removed: – a widely recognized phenomena known as the ‘yield gap’ in organic production.
−Removed: The yield gap results in higher costs
−Removed: for organic corn that, in turn, make it uneconomical to feed that corn to livestock.
−Removed: As is the case for sustainable but not organic beef,
−Removed: Bion believes there is a potentially large unmet demand for affordable beef products that are both sustainable AND organic, but with
−Removed: the taste and texture consumers have come to expect from American beef.
+Added: Corn is especially sensitive to a late-season application of readily
+Added: available nitrogen – the key to maximizing yields.
+Added: With non-organic field corn, this nitrogen is supplied by an application of a
+Added: low-cost synthetic fertilizer, such as urea or anhydrous ammonia.
+Added: However, the cost for suitable nitrogen fertilizer that can be applied
+Added: late-season in organic corn production is so high that the late-season application becomes uneconomical, resulting in substantially lower
+Added: yields – a widely recognized phenomena known as the ‘yield gap’ in organic production.
+Added: The yield gap results in higher
+Added: costs for organic corn that, in turn, make it uneconomical to feed that corn to livestock.
+Added: As is the case for sustainable but not organic
+Added: beef, Bion believes there is a potentially large unmet demand for affordable beef products that are both sustainable AND organic, but
+Added: with the taste and texture consumers have come to expect from American beef.
Bion’s ability to produce the low-cost nitrogen fertilizer
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waste treatment technology at or near the CAFOs – where most of the negative environmental impacts take place.
−Removed: Organic Fertilizer Listing/Certification Process
+Added: Fertilizer (Organic and ‘ClimateSmart’)
+Added: Listing/Certification Process
The Company has focused a large portion of its activities
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on increasing the efficiency of production of valuable co-products from the waste treatment process, including ammonia nitrogen in the
−Removed: form of low carbon and/or organically certified ammonium bicarbonate products.
−Removed: The Company’s initial ammonium bicarbonate liquid
−Removed: product completed its Organic Materials Review Institute (“OMRI”) application and review process with approval during May
−Removed: Applications for our first solid form of concentrated
−Removed: ammonia, soluble nitrogen fertilizer product line have been filed with OMRI (filed during May 2021), the Iowa Organic Program (“IOP”)(filed
−Removed: during March 2022) and the California Department of Food & Agriculture (“CDFA”)(filed during May 2022) and are each in
−Removed: the review process.
−Removed: The review processes are requiring extended periods of time and multiple procedural steps with each entity in part
−Removed: due to the novel nature of Bion’s Gen3Tech and our solid ammonium bicarbonate product in the context of organic certifications.
−Removed: The OMRI application has proceeded through multiple stages of review and rebuttal/appeal without receiving a positive result to date.
−Removed: The Company anticipates has recently filed a new appeal to the most recent determinations.
−Removed: The Company’s CDFA has received initial
−Removed: comments regarding our solid ammonium bicarbonate product line and we anticipate providing CDFA with the requested updated information
−Removed: and clarifications during the next 60 days.
−Removed: The Company’s product line is novel in part due to the fact that there is not a formal
−Removed: listing category for a solid form of concentrated ammonia, soluble nitrogen fertilizers and there is no clear guidance at present from
−Removed: internal policy manuals on how to categorize this product and the process that produced it.
−Removed: There is also no clear guidance at present
−Removed: from either the NOP or the National Organic Standards Board (“NOSB”) (which is currently involved in a related review and
−Removed: recommendations process regarding ‘high nitrogen liquid fertilizers’ derived from ammonia from manure).
−Removed: The Company and its
−Removed: representatives, along with a number of other stakeholders, are involved in discussions regarding resolution of these matters at all three
−Removed: The Company anticipates positive resolution of this matter with one or more listings/certifications of this product line well
−Removed: prior to operational dates for the Company’s initial large scale JV Gen3Tech projects.
+Added: form of low carbon and/or organically certified soluble nitrogen fertilizer products.
+Added: The Company’s low concentration ammonium bicarbonate
+Added: liquid product successfully completed its Organic Materials Review Institute (“OMRI”) application and review process with
+Added: listing approval during May 2020.
+Added: During the next 3-4 months the Company intends to file applications with OMRI and the California Department
+Added: of Food & Agriculture (“CDFA”) for a line of higher concentration liquid ammonium nitrogen products (ranging from 6% up
+Added: to 16% (or higher)) based on production of liquid samples during operation of the Initial Project over the next 2 months.
+Added: anticipates applying for and obtaining one or more listings/certifications for higher concentration products in our liquid ammonium nitrogen
+Added: fertilizer line well prior to operational dates for the Company’s initial large-scale JV Gen3Tech Sustainable Beef Projects.
+Added: Organic and ‘ClimateSmart’ below.
Gen3Tech Kreider 2 Poultry Project
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pandemic has delayed legislative efforts in Pennsylvania needed to commence its development.
−Removed: However, the Company is currently engaged
−Removed: in dialogue with the regional EPA office and the Chesapeake Bay Program Office regarding the potential of the Company’s Gen3Tech
−Removed: Kreider2 Project (and other potential projects) to enable Pennsylvania to move forward toward meeting its Chesapeake Bay clean-up goals.
−Removed: We believe that the potential market is very large, but it is not possible to predict the exact timing and/or magnitude of these potential
−Removed: markets at this time.
+Added: However, the Company has had ongoing dialogue
+Added: with the regional EPA office and the Chesapeake Bay Program Office regarding the potential of the Company’s Gen3Tech Kreider2 Project
+Added: (and other potential projects) to enable Pennsylvania to move forward toward meeting its Chesapeake Bay clean-up goals.
+Added: We believe that
+Added: the potential market is very large, but it is not possible to predict the exact timing and/or magnitude of these potential markets at
Technology Deployment:
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to maximize the value of co-products produced during the waste treatment/recovery processes, including pipeline-quality renewable natural
−Removed: gas (biogas) and commercial fertilizer products approved for organic production.
−Removed: All processes will be verifiable by third parties (including
−Removed: regulatory authorities and certifying boards) to comply with environmental regulations and trading programs and meet the requirements
−Removed: a) renewable energy and carbon credits, b) organic certification of the fertilizer coproducts and c) USDA PVP certification of an
−Removed: ‘Environmentally Sustainable’ brand (see discussion below), and d) payment for verified ecosystem services.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: first patent on its Gen3Tech was issued during 2018.
−Removed: In August 2020, the Company received a Notice of Allowance on its third patent which
−Removed: significantly expands the breadth and depth of the Company’s Gen3Tech coverage, and the Company has additional applications pending
−Removed: and/or planned.
−Removed: Bion’s business model and technology
−Removed: platform can create the opportunity for joint ventures s (in various contractual forms) (“JVs”) between the Company and
−Removed: large livestock/food/fertilizer industry participants based upon the supplemental cash flow generated by implementation of our
−Removed: Gen3Tech business model, which cash flows will support the costs of technology implementation (including servicing related debt).
−Removed: anticipate this will result in substantial long term value for Bion.
−Removed: In the context of such JVs, we believe that the verifiable
−Removed: sustainable branding opportunities (conventional and organic) in meat will represent the single largest enhanced revenue contributor
−Removed: provided by Bion to the JVs (and Bion licensees).
−Removed: The Company believes that the largest portion of its business with be conducted
−Removed: through such JVs, but a material portion may involve licensing and or other approaches.
+Added: gas (biogas) and commercial fertilizer products (approved for organic production and/or ‘ClimateSmart’ certified).
+Added: All processes
+Added: will be verifiable by third parties (including regulatory authorities and certifying boards) to comply with environmental regulations
+Added: and trading programs and meet the requirements for:
+Added: a) renewable energy and carbon credits, b) organic and/or ‘ClimateSmart’
+Added: certification of the fertilizer coproducts and c) USDA PVP certification of an ‘Environmentally Sustainable’ brand, and d)
+Added: payment for verified ecosystem services.
+Added: The Company’s first patent on its Gen3Tech was issued during 2018.
+Added: In August 2020, the
+Added: Company received a Notice of Allowance on its third patent which significantly expands the breadth and depth of the Company’s Gen3Tech
+Added: coverage, and the Company has additional applications pending and/or planned.
+Added: Bion’s business model and technology platform
+Added: can create the opportunity for joint ventures s (in various contractual forms) (“JVs”) between the Company and large livestock/food/fertilizer
+Added: industry participants based upon the supplemental cash flow generated by implementation of our Gen3Tech business model, which cash flows
+Added: will support the costs of technology implementation (including servicing related debt).
+Added: We anticipate this will result in substantial
+Added: long term value for Bion.
+Added: In the context of such JVs, we believe that the verifiable sustainable branding opportunities (conventional
+Added: and organic) in meat will represent one of the largest enhanced revenue contributors provided by Bion to the JVs (and Bion licensees).
+Added: The Company believes that the largest portion of its business with be conducted through such JVs, but a material portion may involve licensing
+Added: and or other approaches.
In parallel with technology development, Bion has
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by the state (or others) through competitively-bid procurement programs.
−Removed: Such credits can then be used as a ‘qualified offset’
+Added: Such credits then can be used as a ‘qualified offset’
by an individual state (or municipality) to meet its federal clean water mandates at significantly lower cost to the taxpayer.
Market-driven
−Removed: strategies, including competitive procurement of verified credits, is supported by U.S.
−Removed: EPA, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, national livestock
−Removed: interests, and other key stakeholders.
−Removed: Legislation in Pennsylvania to establish the first such state competitive procurement program passed
−Removed: the Pennsylvania Senate by a bi-partisan majority during March 2019 but has not yet crossed the hurdles required for actual adoption.
−Removed: The Covid-19 pandemic and related financial/budgetary crises have slowed progress for this and other policy initiatives and, as a result,
−Removed: it is not currently possible to project the timeline for completion (or meaningful progress) of this and other similar initiatives (see
−Removed: discussion below).
+Added: strategies, including competitive procurement of verified credits, are supported by U.S.
+Added: EPA, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, national
+Added: livestock interests, and other key stakeholders.
+Added: Legislation in Pennsylvania to establish the first such state competitive procurement
+Added: program passed the Pennsylvania Senate by a bi-partisan majority during March 2019 but has not yet crossed other hurdles required for
+Added: actual adoption.
+Added: The Covid-19 pandemic and related financial/budgetary crises have slowed progress for this and other policy initiatives
+Added: and, as a result, it is not currently possible to project the timeline for completion (or meaningful progress) of this and other similar
+Added: initiatives (see discussion below).
The livestock industry and its markets are already
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Bion anticipates moving
−Removed: forward with the development process of its initial commercial installations utilizing its Gen3Tech, during the current 2023 fiscal year.
+Added: forward with the development process of its initial commercial installations utilizing its Gen3Tech, during the current 2024 calendar
We believe that Bion’s Gen3Tech platform and business model can provide a pathway to true economic and environmental sustainability
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transport this volatile nitrogen downstream where, along its way, it intermixes with surface water, further exacerbating the runoff problem.
−Removed: Like atmospheric deposition, the current conservation practices we rely on to reduce agricultural runoff are largely bypassed by this
−Removed: subsurface flow.
+Added: Like atmospheric deposition, the current conservation practices relied on to reduce agricultural runoff are largely bypassed by this subsurface
+Added: Nitrogen and ammonia are also global concerns, with
+Added: a growing number of harmful algae blooms and recurring dead zones across the world.
+Added: In the EU, a nitrogen cap has been established that
+Added: has led to political and social unrest, especially in Ireland and the Netherlands, where farmers are faced with culling their dairy and
+Added: swine herds by as much as 50 percent.
+Added: The ability to capture and stabilize their ammonia, so that it can be easily transported away from
+Added: regions where it is not wanted and then precision applied where and when needed, could have a profound impact on the agricultural economies
+Added: of these countries that export the majority of the dairy and pork products they produce.
Additionally, in arid climates, such as California,
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expensive to ‘chase’, capture and treat.
+Added: While not regulated yet, there have been ongoing discussions between the US EPA and
+Added: the California Air Resources Board (CARB) what potential ammonia regulation might encompass.
+Added: However, as above, California is moving forward
+Added: with changes to how it deals with nitrates.
High phosphorus concentrations in soils fertilized
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the largest being the massive carbon footprint of the synthetic nitrogen fertilizers used to grow the grains to feed the livestock.
+Added: Chronic droughts in the west have also impacted the
+Added: long-term sustainability of some beef herds.
+Added: Relocation of some beef cattle feeding locations may be required.
+Added: Access to clean water is
+Added: an issue of concern that is rising in the world of risks on the ranch.
For decades the livestock industry has overlooked
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Protection (“DEP”) during 2012.
−Removed: A key attribute of Bion’s 2G Tech (now
−Removed: supplanted by our Gen3Tech) was that nutrient and other pollution reductions could be measured, providing a level of verification on
−Removed: par with a municipal wastewater treatment plant, which created the opportunity for the nutrient reductions to be used as
−Removed: “qualified offsets” to EPA-mandated requirements.
−Removed: While it was an engineering success, Kreider 1 has failed financially
−Removed: because the 2G Tech platform was almost wholly dependent for revenue from anticipated demand for nutrient credits, based on
−Removed: PA’s mandated nitrogen reductions under the Chesapeake Bay Strategy and their proposed nutrient trading program that did not materialize.
−Removed: Bion began development of its Gen3Tech platform when it became apparent there was significant opposition to
−Removed: the trading program (and private sector participation in clean water activities, generally) from entrenched clean water interests.
−Removed: The Company is no longer implementing Projects based on its 2G Tech and the Kreider 1 project has been shut down.
+Added: A key attribute of Bion’s 2G Tech (now supplanted
+Added: by our Gen3Tech) was that nutrient and other pollution reductions could be measured, providing a level of verification on par with a
+Added: municipal wastewater treatment plant, which created the opportunity for the nutrient reductions to be used as “qualified offsets”
+Added: to EPA-mandated requirements.
+Added: While it was an engineering success, Kreider 1 has failed financially because the 2G Tech platform was almost
+Added: wholly dependent for revenue from anticipated demand for nutrient credits, based on PA’s mandated nitrogen reductions under the
+Added: Chesapeake Bay Strategy and their proposed nutrient trading program that did not materialize.
+Added: Bion began development of its Gen3Tech platform
+Added: when it became apparent there was significant opposition to the PA trading program (and private sector participation in clean water activities,
+Added: generally) from entrenched clean water interests.
+Added: The Company is no longer implementing Projects based on its 2G Tech and the Kreider
+Added: 1 project has been shut down.
Bion’s Gen3Tech was developed to avoid the dependence
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a Notice of Allowance’ for our third patent related to our Gen3Tech and additional related applications are pending and/or planned
−Removed: (See “Patents”.) The Gen3Tech platform incorporates Bion’s patented and proprietary technology while utilizing existing
+Added: (See “Patents”.) The Gen3Tech platform incorporates Bion’s patented and proprietary technology which utilizes existing
commercial evaporation and distillation process equipment (with decades of reliability and service history) that is customized for Bion’s
specific applications.
−Removed: Our Gen3Tech platform is the basis for a JV
−Removed: business model with four primary distinct revenue streams :
−Removed: 1) pipeline quality renewable natural gas and related carbon and
−Removed: other environmental credits, 2) premium organic fertilizer products, 3) nutrient reduction credits, and 4) premium pricing/license
+Added: Gen3Tech Platform
+Added: Our Gen3Tech platform is the basis for a JV business
+Added: model with four primary distinct revenue streams :
+Added: 1) pipeline quality renewable natural gas and related carbon and other environmental
+Added: credits, 2) premium fertilizer products:
+Added: organic and ‘ClimateSmart’, 3) nutrient reduction credits, and 4) premium pricing/license
fees for verifiably sustainable, USDA PVP-certified ‘Environmentally Sustainable’ branded meat at the retail level.
−Removed: Carbon and nutrient credit revenues will be supported by third-party verification of the waste treatment processes that
−Removed: simultaneously capture methane and nutrients, while producing renewable energy and fertilizer products from them with relatively
−Removed: limited incremental cost to Bion.
−Removed: The same verified data will also provide the backbone for the USDA PVP-certified sustainable
−Removed: brand, again with limited incremental cost.
−Removed: Renewable energy- and carbon-related credits:
−Removed: Bion’s Gen3Tech platform utilizes anaerobic digestion (“AD”)
−Removed: customized to maximize recovery of biogas (methane) (and ammonia nitrogen components) from the waste stream.
−Removed: At sufficient scale, methane
−Removed: produced from AD can be cost-effectively conditioned/cleaned, compressed and injected into a pipeline.
−Removed: The US Renewable Fuel Standard
−Removed: (“RFS”) program and state programs in California and elsewhere provide ongoing renewable energy credits for the production
−Removed: of biogas and its subsequent use as a renewable transportation fuel.
−Removed: The CO2 recovered in the gas cleaning process will be recycled for
−Removed: use in the production of organic fertilizer products along with the ammonia-rich digestate.
−Removed: Gen3Tech facilities will also generate photovoltaic
−Removed: (solar) electricity from modules placed on the roofs of the barns (approximately 12 acres of rooftop per 15,000 head of cattle module).
−Removed: Additional renewable energy-related credit programs are being developed that Bion believes will impact these revenues, including a Carbon
−Removed: Intensity (CI) score that measures the amount of carbon produced per unit of energy produced.
−Removed: Organic Fertilizer products:
−Removed: The Gen3Tech platform has been designed to
−Removed: produce multiple fertilizer products from the ammonia-rich digestate, including:
−Removed: i) ammonium bicarbonate liquid, ii) ammonium bicarbonate
−Removed: in solid crystal form and iii) soil amendment products that will contain the remaining nitrogen, phosphorus and other micronutrients captured
−Removed: from the livestock waste stream.
−Removed: Bion believes each product will qualify for organic certification.
−Removed: The Company has filed an application
−Removed: the initial version of its crystal product which is in the review process.
−Removed: Additional applications may be filed in subsequent periods.
−Removed: Ammonium bicarbonate, manufactured using
−Removed: chemical processes, has a long history of use as a fertilizer.
−Removed: Bion’s Gen3Tech recovers solid ammonium bicarbonate products containing
−Removed: 18-22 percent nitrogen in a crystalline form that is easily transported, is water soluble and provides a readily available nitrogen source
−Removed: This product line will contain virtually none of the other salt, iron and mineral constituents of the livestock waste stream
+Added: and nutrient credit revenues will be supported by third-party verification of the waste treatment processes that simultaneously capture
+Added: methane and nutrients, while producing renewable energy and fertilizer products from them with relatively limited incremental cost to
+Added: The same verified data will also provide the backbone for the USDA PVP-certified sustainable brand, again with limited incremental
+Added: energy- and carbon-related credits:
+Added: Gen3Tech platform utilizes anaerobic digestion (“AD”) customized to maximize recovery of biogas (methane) (and ammonia nitrogen
+Added: components) from the waste stream.
+Added: At sufficient scale, methane produced from AD can be cost-effectively conditioned/cleaned, compressed
+Added: and injected into a pipeline.
+Added: The US Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) program and state programs in California and elsewhere
+Added: provide ongoing renewable energy credits for the production of biogas and its subsequent use as a renewable transportation fuel.
+Added: CO2 recovered in the gas cleaning process will be recycled for use in the production of organic fertilizer products along with the ammonia-rich
+Added: Gen3Tech facilities will also generate photovoltaic (solar) electricity from modules placed on the roofs of the barns (approximately
+Added: 12 acres of rooftop per 15,000 head of cattle module).
+Added: Additional renewable energy-related credit programs are being developed that Bion
+Added: believes will impact these revenues, including a Carbon Intensity (CI) score that measures the amount of carbon produced per unit of
+Added: energy produced.
+Added: 2) Fertilizer:
+Added: ‘ClimateSmart’ :
+Added: The Company has focused a large portion of its activities
+Added: on developing, testing and demonstrating the 3rd generation of its technology and technology
+Added: platform (“Gen3Tech”) with emphasis on increasing the efficiency of production
+Added: of valuable co-products from the waste treatment process, including ammonia nitrogen in the
+Added: form of low carbon and/or organically certified soluble nitrogen fertilizer products.
+Added: Company’s low concentration ammonium bicarbonate liquid product successfully completed
+Added: its Organic Materials Review Institute (“OMRI”) application and review process
+Added: with listing approval during May 2020.
+Added: During the next 3-4 months the Company intends to
+Added: file applications with OMRI and the California Department of Food & Agriculture (“CDFA”)
+Added: for a line of higher concentration liquid ammonium nitrogen products (ranging from 6% up
+Added: to 16% (or higher)) based on production of liquid samples during operation of the Initial
+Added: Project over the next 2 months.
+Added: The Company anticipates applying for and obtaining one or
+Added: more listings/certifications for higher concentration products in our liquid ammonium nitrogen
+Added: fertilizer line well prior to operational dates for the Company’s initial large-scale
+Added: JV Gen3Tech Sustainable Beef Projects.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the Company intends to explore the market potential for its fertilizer (in liquid and/or solid forms) to be a verifiably ‘ClimateSmart’
+Added: product (potentially a much larger market than the organic market) with focus on higher value specialty crops.
+Added: This will require working
+Added: with industry and academic entities to develop appropriate metrics and producing a ‘life cycle assessment’ (LCA) for Bion’s
+Added: ammonium nitrogen fertilizer product which can be compared to conventional nitrogen fertilizer products.
+Added: Bion’s processes will
+Added: capture and utilize CO2 in the waste stream (including CO2 produced with the renewable natural gas (RNG) by anaerobic digestion that
+Added: is usually vented to the atmosphere) as stabilizing agent thereby potentially creating carbon offsets compared to natural gas utilized
+Added: as feedstock in chemical ammonia production which reduction will be reflected in the LCA.
+Added: This LCA will assess environmental impacts
+Added: associated with fertilizer production in support of the beef cattle supply chain for both the existing conventional approach (primarily
+Added: fossil fuel-based Haber-Bosch production methods) and the largely decarbonized Bion production approach.
+Added: We believe a series of coincident
+Added: yet significant LCA benefits accrue from Bion’s patented fertilizer production approach including the reduced loss of ammonia to
+Added: the environment via air (volatilized) and water (nitrate in groundwater) pathways, recycled/reused water, elimination of pathogens, the
+Added: production of renewable natural gas, the production solar energy from photovoltaic panels on barn roofs, enhanced animal welfare practices
+Added: and reduced animal husbandry risks from extreme weather events.
+Added: Bion believes that current evaluations of the carbon impact from feedlot
+Added: operations materially underestimate the negative impacts because existing models do not properly include significant ‘downstream’
+Added: carbon impacts of required energy intensive waste water treatment for re-deposited ammonia nitrogen.
+Added: If the Company determines there
+Added: is a significant ‘ClimateSmart’ opportunity for our fertilizer products, such an LCA can be completed (based in part on data
+Added: from the Initial Project) and support marketing efforts well prior to operational dates for the Company’s initial large scale JV
+Added: Gen3Tech projects.
+Added: bicarbonate, manufactured using thermal and mechanical processes, has a long history of use as a fertilizer.
+Added: In addition to liquid ammonium
+Added: nitrogen fertilizer, Bion’s Gen3Tech is capable of recovering nitrogen in the form of solid ammonium bicarbonate products containing
+Added: up to 18%-22% (or higher) nitrogen in a crystalline form that is easily transported (while producing liquids with various percentages
+Added: of ammonium bicarbonate nitrogen during interim stages of the process).
+Added: This solid product is water soluble and provides a readily available
+Added: nitrogen source for crops.
+Added: It will contain virtually none of the other salt, iron and mineral constituents of the livestock waste stream
that often accompany other organic fertilizers.
−Removed: This product is being developed to fertilizer industry standards so that it that can be
−Removed: precision-applied to crops using existing equipment.
−Removed: Bion believes that this product will potentially have broad applications in the production
−Removed: of organic grains for livestock feed, row crops, horticulture, greenhouse and hydroponic production, and potentially retail lawn and garden
−Removed: The ammonium bicarbonate products produced
−Removed: by Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will enjoy a dramatically lower carbon footprint than synthetic fertilizers.
−Removed: The reactive nitrogen captured
−Removed: and upcycled into our fertilizer products was going to be lost through volatilization and runoff, and that loss would generally need to
−Removed: be offset with a synthetic nitrogen, such as anhydrous ammonia or urea.
−Removed: These synthetic nitrogen products are produced through the Haber-Bosch
−Removed: (and other) synthetic processes, which converts hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, with methane as the energy source.
−Removed: an extremely energy-intensive process with a carbon footprint that, while not yet fully understood, is widely accepted to by very large.
−Removed: While a complete Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of carbon impacts from synthetic fertilizer production is not available, according to the Institute
−Removed: for Industrial Productivity, its production alone is responsible for approximately 1 percent of total global CO2 emissions.
−Removed: To the extent
−Removed: that Bion can capture and repurpose the nitrogen traditionally lost from livestock waste, that carbon cost will no longer need to be paid.
−Removed: The Company’s initial low concentration
−Removed: ammonium bicarbonate liquid product completed its OMRI application and review process with approval during May 2020.
−Removed: Applications to OMRI,
−Removed: the California Department of Food and Agriculture (“CDFA”) and the Iowa Organic Program have been filed by the Company for
−Removed: its initial solid concentrated ammonium bicarbonate nitrogen and are currently being reviewed.
−Removed: To provide a first level degree of clarity
−Removed: regarding organic approvals and the processes/procedures involved, Bion believes that the initial OMRI approval is of importance, because
−Removed: our solid organic products are produced by using the very same technology platform (our Gen3Tech).
−Removed: Note that there are different layers
−Removed: organic program and that fertilizers do not get ‘certified’ as organic, per se.
−Removed: Rather, they are evaluated to
−Removed: determine if they are acceptable for ‘use in organic production’.
−Removed: The National Organic Program (“NOP”)
−Removed: was established by Congress in 2001 under the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
−Removed: The NOP develops and enforces uniform national
−Removed: standards for organically-produced agricultural end products – meat/dairy/milk, fruits, vegetables – sold in the United
−Removed: Operating as a public-private partnership, NOP accredits private companies and helps train their inspectors (USDA-accredited
−Removed: Certifiers) to certify that farms and businesses meet the national organic standards.
−Removed: For example, in a potential Midwest organic beef
−Removed: project, each element in the supply chain must provide their certifying agent’s certification that the specific
−Removed: product, such as organic corn, has been produced in accordance with their organic plan.
−Removed: The end product - the beef - would be USDA-certified
−Removed: as organic by an accredited Certifier after a review of ALL the farming practices and inputs (which would include Bion’s ammonium
−Removed: bicarbonate fertilizer).
−Removed: OMRI enables a national listing thru
−Removed: one application versus the alternative of using certifiers to secure listings in individual states and regions.
−Removed: To those who wish to sell
−Removed: organic fertilizers into national distribution channels, an OMRI listing provides nearly uniform acceptance in the U.S.
−Removed: The OMRI listing
−Removed: Bion received in May was for our initial commercial product, a low-concentration liquid ammonia.
−Removed: It is valid ONLY for that particular
−Removed: For future Bion product offerings using the same technology platform, Bion will either need to file for specific state approval,
−Removed: or file for a national listing, or a combination of the two.
−Removed: Bion may elect to use an individual state listing initially to be followed
−Removed: by an OMRI application if and when the need for a regional or national listing arises.
−Removed: The overarching standard of organic
−Removed: production, per NOP guidelines, is that a “product shall have been produced and handled without the use of synthetic chemicals…”
−Removed: That is rule Number One.
−Removed: At NOP, the term "synthetic" means “a substance that is formulated or manufactured by a chemical
−Removed: process or by a process that chemically changes a substance extracted from naturally occurring plant, animal, or mineral sources, except
−Removed: that such term shall not apply to substances created by naturally occurring biological processes.” In evaluating and approving Bion’s
−Removed: liquid ammonia for OMRI listing, Bion’s patented ammonia recovery system was not deemed synthetic.
−Removed: That is an important distinction
−Removed: for future Bion product filings based upon the same patented process.
−Removed: The Company believes that organic approvals
−Removed: for its products will:
−Removed: a) provide access to substantially higher value markets compared to synthetic nitrogen products, and/or b) allow
−Removed: its products to be utilized in growing of organic feed grains to be consumed by livestock raised in JVs which will be sold as organic.
−Removed: Based on preliminary market surveys to date, we believe that existing competing organic fertilizer products in both liquid and granular
−Removed: form are being sold presently at price points significantly greater than Bion’s projected cost and projected pricing.
−Removed: We also believe
−Removed: that livestock products from animals raised with feed grains grown using Bion organic ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer products (and that
−Removed: otherwise qualify) will receive organic approvals.
−Removed: It is anticipated that the Company will continue to seek approvals for such products
−Removed: during the balance of the current fiscal year and will commence JVs that undertake initial production and marketing of such products during
−Removed: the 2023 calendar year.
+Added: This product is being developed to fertilizer industry standards so that it that can
+Added: be precision-applied to crops using existing equipment.
+Added: Bion believes that this product will potentially have broad applications in the
+Added: production of organic and/or ClimateSmart grains for livestock feed, row crops, horticulture, greenhouse and hydroponic production, and
+Added: potentially retail lawn and garden products.
+Added: ammonium bicarbonate products (liquid and solid) produced by Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will enjoy a dramatically lower carbon footprint
+Added: than synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
+Added: Much of the reactive nitrogen captured and upcycled into our fertilizer products was going to be
+Added: lost through volatilization and runoff, and that loss would generally need to be offset with a synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, such as
+Added: anhydrous ammonia or urea.
+Added: These synthetic nitrogen products are produced through the Haber-Bosch (and other) synthetic processes, which
+Added: converts hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, with methane from fossil fuels as the energy source.
+Added: It is an extremely energy-intensive
+Added: process with a carbon footprint that, while not yet fully understood, is widely accepted to by very large.
+Added: While a complete Life Cycle
+Added: Assessment (LCA) of carbon impacts from synthetic fertilizer production is not yet available, according to the Institute for Industrial
+Added: Productivity, its production alone is responsible for approximately 1 percent of total global CO2 emissions.
+Added: To the extent that Bion
+Added: can capture and repurpose the nitrogen traditionally lost from livestock waste, that carbon cost will no longer need to be paid by the
+Added: environment/climate.
+Added: for our first solid form of concentrated ammonia, soluble nitrogen fertilizer product line were filed with OMRI (filed during May 2021)
+Added: and CDFA (filed during May 2022) without success to date.
+Added: After an extended review processes (which was largely opaque), the OMRI application
+Added: proceeded through multiple stages without receiving a positive result.
+Added: We have initiated an informal dialogue with CDFA regarding the
+Added: basis for and re-consideration of its initial negative determination and anticipate submitting additional supporting materials to CDFA
+Added: during the next 30 days.
+Added: The Company’s solid product line is novel (in the context of organic certification) in part due to the
+Added: fact that no formal listing category currently in the organic space for a solid form of concentrated ammonia, soluble nitrogen fertilizers
+Added: and there is no clear guidance at present from internal policy manuals on how to categorize this product and the process that produces
+Added: There is also no clear guidance at present from either the NOP or the National Organic Standards Board (“NOSB”) (which
+Added: is currently involved in a related review and recommendations process regarding ‘high nitrogen liquid fertilizers’ derived
+Added: from ammonia from manure).
+Added: The Company and its representatives, along with a number of other organic fertilizer stakeholders, are involved
+Added: in discussions regarding resolution of these matters at all three levels.
+Added: The Company intends to continue efforts to obtain listing/certification
+Added: for its solid nitrogen fertilizer line over the course of this fiscal year.
+Added: provide a first level degree of clarity regarding organic approvals and the processes/procedures involved, Bion believes that the initial
+Added: OMRI approval is of importance, because our other ammonium nitrogen organic products will produced by using the very same technology
+Added: platform (our Gen3Tech).
+Added: Note that there are different layers to the U.S.
+Added: organic program and that fertilizers do not get ‘certified’
+Added: as organic, per se.
+Added: Rather, they are evaluated to determine if they are acceptable for ‘use in organic production’.
+Added: National Organic Program (“NOP”) was established by Congress in 2001 under the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
+Added: The NOP develops and enforces uniform national standards for organically-produced agricultural end products – meat/dairy/milk,
+Added: fruits, vegetables – sold in the United States.
+Added: Operating as a public-private partnership, NOP accredits private companies and
+Added: helps train their inspectors (USDA-accredited Certifiers) to certify that farms and businesses meet the national organic standards.
+Added: example, in a potential Midwest organic beef project, each element in the supply chain must provide their certifying agent’s certification
+Added: that the specific product, such as organic corn, has been produced in accordance with their organic plan.
+Added: The end product - the beef
+Added: - would be USDA-certified as organic by an accredited Certifier after a review of ALL the farming practices and inputs (which would include
+Added: Bion’s ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer).
+Added: enables a national listing thru one application versus the alternative of using certifiers to secure listings in individual states and
+Added: To those who wish to sell organic fertilizers into national distribution channels, an OMRI listing provides nearly uniform acceptance
+Added: The OMRI listing Bion received in May was for our initial commercial product, a low-concentration liquid ammonia.
+Added: ONLY for that particular product.
+Added: For future Bion product offerings using the same technology platform, Bion will either need to file
+Added: for specific state approval, or file for a national listing, or a combination of the two.
+Added: Bion may elect to use an individual state listing
+Added: initially to be followed by an OMRI application if and when the need for a regional or national listing arises.
+Added: overarching standard of organic production, per NOP guidelines, is that a “product shall have been produced and handled without
+Added: the use of synthetic chemicals…” That is rule Number One.
+Added: At NOP, the term "synthetic" means “a substance
+Added: that is formulated or manufactured by a chemical process or by a process that chemically changes a substance extracted from naturally
+Added: occurring plant, animal, or mineral sources, except that such term shall not apply to substances created by naturally occurring biological
+Added: processes.” In evaluating and approving Bion’s liquid ammonia for OMRI listing, Bion’s patented ammonia recovery system
+Added: was not deemed synthetic.
+Added: That is an important distinction for future Bion product filings based upon the same patented process.
+Added: Company believes that organic approvals for its products will:
+Added: a) provide access to substantially higher value markets compared to synthetic
+Added: nitrogen products, and/or b) allow its products to be utilized in growing of organic feed grains to be consumed by livestock raised in
+Added: JVs which will be sold as organic.
+Added: Based on preliminary market surveys to date, we believe that existing competing organic fertilizer
+Added: products in both liquid and granular form are being sold presently at price points significantly greater than Bion’s projected
+Added: cost and projected pricing.
+Added: We also believe that livestock products from animals raised with feed grains grown using Bion organic ammonium
+Added: bicarbonate fertilizer products (and that otherwise qualify) will receive organic approvals.
+Added: It is anticipated that the Company will
+Added: continue to seek approvals for such products during the balance of the current fiscal year and will commence JVs that undertake initial
+Added: production and marketing of such products during the 2024 calendar year.
Nutrient credits:
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Despite the fact that the bill was not considered in the House, due to
−Removed: the Covid-19 pandemic (a re-introduced bill will have to be considered again in the current and/or future sessions, Bion anticipates that after passage of a similar bill in the future, PA will establish a
−Removed: competitively-bid market for nutrient credits within twelve months after legislative passage and being signed into law by the Governor.
−Removed: See “Policy Change is Coming” and “Kreider Poultry Joint Venture and Pennsylvania and Chesapeake Bay Initiatives”
−Removed: below for discussion of the history and status of matters in PA.
−Removed: Note, however, that the Covid-19
−Removed: pandemic and resultant social and economic crises and budgetary constraints have delayed policy initiatives related to these matters
−Removed: at both the state and federal levels.
−Removed: As a result, it is not currently possible to reasonably project a timetable for adoption of the
−Removed: policy changes discussed herein.
+Added: the Covid-19 pandemic (a re-introduced bill will have to be considered again in the current and/or future sessions, Bion anticipates that
+Added: after passage of a similar bill in the future, PA will establish a competitively-bid market for nutrient credits within twelve months
+Added: after legislative passage and being signed into law by the Governor.
+Added: See “Policy Change is Coming” and “Kreider Poultry
+Added: Joint Venture and Pennsylvania and Chesapeake Bay Initiatives” below for discussion of the history and status of matters in PA.
+Added: Note, however, that the Covid-19 pandemic
+Added: and resultant social and economic crises and budgetary constraints have delayed policy initiatives related to these matters at both the
+Added: state and federal levels.
+Added: As a result, it is not currently possible to reasonably project a timetable for adoption of the policy changes
+Added: discussed herein.
Sustainable Branding:
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2” or Kreider Poultry”) (discussed below) is an example of such a Retrofit Project.
−Removed: c) Licensing and/or joint
−Removed: venturing of Bion’s technology and applications, primarily targeted outside North America.
−Removed: In both categories a) and b) above, the Company intends
−Removed: to directly participate (whether by joint venture agreement or other contractual arrangements) in the revenues of the Retrofits and Projects.
+Added: c) Technology licensing
+Added: and/or joint venture opportunities internationally and in the U.S.
+Added: for post-anaerobic digester:
+Added: a) dairy applications, and b) treatment
+Added: of organic waste streams from food waste, food processing waste, biofuels, and other organic waste streams whose processes include anaerobic
+Added: digestion to produce renewable energy.
+Added: In each category (but especially in categories a)
+Added: and b)) above, the Company intends to directly participate (whether by joint venture agreement or other contractual arrangements) in the
+Added: revenues of the Retrofits and Projects.
The opportunities described in categories a) and b)
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and b) above, using our Gen3Tech to develop new (or expanded) large-scale Projects with strategic partners (including the Kreider 2 Project)
−Removed: on a joint venture (or other participating contractual form) basis.
−Removed: Bion’s business model opens up the opportunity for JVs in various
−Removed: forms, based upon the revenue generated by our Gen3Tech platform from nutrient reductions, fertilizer co-products and renewable natural
−Removed: gas (which revenue streams will be secured through long term take-off agreements for each of these co-products) providing initial support
−Removed: for financing of required capital expenditures (whether equity or debt).
−Removed: We anticipate that these revenue streams will be supplemented
−Removed: by revenue realized from long-term premium pricing resulting from the sustainable branding opportunity.
−Removed: We believe that, over time, the
−Removed: branding opportunity may provide the single largest contribution to the overall economic opportunity enabled by Bion’s Gen3Tech
−Removed: platform and business model.
+Added: on a joint venture (or other participating contractual form) basis----but we have engaged in preliminary discussions concerning opportunities
+Added: described in category c).
+Added: Bion’s business model opens up the opportunity for JVs in various forms, based upon the revenue generated
+Added: by our Gen3Tech platform from nutrient reductions, fertilizer co-products and renewable natural gas (which revenue streams will be secured
+Added: through long term take-off agreements for each of these co-products) providing initial support for financing of required capital expenditures
+Added: (whether equity or debt).
+Added: We anticipate that these revenue streams will be supplemented by revenue realized from long-term premium pricing
+Added: resulting from the sustainable branding opportunity.
+Added: We believe that, over time, the branding opportunity may provide the single largest
+Added: contribution to the overall economic opportunity enabled by Bion’s Gen3Tech platform and business model.
Initial Project:
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Sustainable/Organic Corn-Finished Beef Opportunity
−Removed: The Dalhart Project discussed above is the first
−Removed: Bion Gen3Tech project in this category.
−Removed: is the largest producer of beef (and
−Removed: veal) in the world, accounting for 11.5 million tons out of 61.5 million tons produced worldwide in 2020.
−Removed: Per capita beef consumption
+Added: It is likely that one of the LOI Projects discussed
+Added: above will be the first Bion Gen3Tech project in this category.
+Added: is the largest producer of beef (and veal)
+Added: in the world, accounting for 11.5 million tons out of 61.5 million tons produced worldwide in 2020.
+Added: Per capita beef consumption in the
was approximately 70 pounds in 2020, up from 55 pounds in 2011.
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Of those cattle on feed, 81.4 percent were in feedlots with a capacity over 1,000 head.
−Removed: Beef production is the most challenged sector
−Removed: of the livestock industry, due to its size and inability, as currently structured, to respond to growing consumer concerns related to
−Removed: sustainability and food safety.
−Removed: The beef industry is highly fragmented, and it is designed to produce multiple levels of commodity products
−Removed: (without any significant pricing premiums) that are graded based on marbling (fat) that determines taste and tenderness.
−Removed: Further, during
−Removed: its several decades of growth, the industry has avoided significant environmental regulation, and instead, has externalized its environmental
−Removed: costs by returning its waste to crop fields, where much of it is ‘flushed’ downstream.
−Removed: Today, however, consumer demand is
−Removed: shifting to products that are more sustainable, regarding carbon footprint, impacts to air and water, and other metrics.
−Removed: The result has
−Removed: been an opening for disruptive startups, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, that are backed by large institutional investors
−Removed: and offer plant-based (in part) meat substitutes.
+Added: Beef production is the most challenged sector of the
+Added: livestock industry, due to its size and inability, as currently structured, to respond to growing consumer concerns related to sustainability
+Added: and food safety.
+Added: The beef industry is highly fragmented, and it is designed to produce multiple levels of commodity products (without
+Added: any significant pricing premiums) that are graded based on marbling (fat) that determines taste and tenderness.
+Added: Further, during its several
+Added: decades of growth, the industry has avoided significant environmental regulation, and instead, has externalized its environmental costs
+Added: by returning its waste to crop fields, where much of it is ‘flushed’ downstream.
+Added: Today, however, consumer demand is shifting
+Added: to products that are more sustainable, regarding carbon footprint, impacts to air and water, and other metrics.
+Added: The result has been an
+Added: opening for disruptive startups, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, that are backed by large institutional investors and offer
+Added: plant-based (in part) meat substitutes.
The CEO of Impossible Foods has made bold claims that the $100B-plus (U.S.
−Removed: industry will be obsolete in 15 years.
−Removed: Bion disagrees --- but such competition provides and highlights opportunities for us.
−Removed: The Company doesn’t think the consumer
−Removed: wants to ‘blow up’ the beef industry, which is responsible for the best and safest beef available in the world today (as well
−Removed: as the livelihoods of almost 800,000 farming, ranching and other families supported by the beef industry in the U.S).
+Added: alone) meat industry
+Added: will be obsolete in 15 years (before the ‘alt meat’ boom flattened).
+Added: Bion disagrees --- but such competition provides and
+Added: highlights opportunities for us.
+Added: The Company doesn’t think the consumer wants
+Added: to ‘blow up’ the beef industry, which is responsible for the best and safest beef available in the world today (as well as
+Added: the livelihoods of almost 800,000 farming, ranching and other families supported by the beef industry in the U.S).
Nor do market studies
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a PVP brand for products of sustainable and organic beef JVs.
−Removed: Market studies indicate there is potentially
−Removed: a large, currently unserved, market for sustainable/organic corn-finished beef;
+Added: Market studies indicate there is potentially a large,
+Added: currently unserved, market for sustainable/organic corn-finished beef;
and further, that this is a long term and growing trend.
−Removed: Bion believes its 30 years of experience and expertise in livestock waste management, coupled with its state-of-the-art Gen3Tech platform
−Removed: and first-mover advantage, put the Company and its selected JV partners in a unique position to develop the most environmentally and economically
−Removed: sustainable animal protein production facilities possible today.
−Removed: The Company is unaware of any other technology and/or business model
−Removed: that can offer the same level of comprehensive treatment of livestock waste, produce high value coproducts, and deliver a sustainable
−Removed: brand that can provide an industry response to counter today’s anti-meat messaging, along with the inroads in the animal protein
−Removed: market being made by alternative protein competitors.
+Added: Bion believes
+Added: its 30 years of experience and expertise in livestock waste management, coupled with its state-of-the-art Gen3Tech platform and first-mover
+Added: advantage, put the Company and its selected JV partners in a unique position to develop the most environmentally and economically sustainable
+Added: animal protein production facilities possible today.
+Added: The Company is unaware of any other technology and/or business model that can offer
+Added: the same level of comprehensive treatment of livestock waste, produce high value coproducts, and deliver a sustainable brand that can
+Added: provide an industry response to counter today’s anti-meat messaging, along with the inroads in the animal protein market being made
+Added: by alternative protein competitors.
‘Sustainable’ and ‘organic’
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While the markets and consumer demographics
−Removed: may overlap, it is assumed for purposes of Bion’s analysis and planning that the market for sustainable beef will be larger but
−Removed: command a smaller pricing premium;
−Removed: while the market for organic will be smaller but command a substantially larger premium and be somewhat
−Removed: costlier to produce.
+Added: may overlap, it is assumed for purposes of Bion’s analysis and planning that the market for sustainable beef will be substantially
+Added: larger but command a smaller pricing premium;
+Added: while the market for organic will be smaller but command a substantially larger premium
+Added: and be costlier to produce.
Note that in the sustainable and organic markets targeted by Bion, ‘corn-finished’ is a constant.
−Removed: believes, and the market has demonstrated, that delivering the same taste and texture that consumers expect in American beef and other
−Removed: meat products is a key to successful market acceptance, within both the sustainable and sustainable organic markets.
−Removed: The success of grass-fed/organic
−Removed: ground beef vs that of grass-fed/organic steaks demonstrates that palatability, as well as price, is a key criterion in whether a consumer
−Removed: chooses sustainability.
+Added: Bion believes, and the market has demonstrated, that delivering the same taste and texture that consumers expect in American beef and
+Added: other meat products is a key to successful market acceptance, within both the sustainable and sustainable organic markets.
+Added: of grass-fed/organic ground beef vs that of grass-fed/organic steaks demonstrates that palatability, as well as price, is a key criterion
+Added: in whether a consumer chooses sustainability.
Bion’s Gen3Tech platform supports production of beef products that check all the boxes:
−Removed: sustainable, expected
−Removed: taste/texture, and affordable.
+Added: sustainable, expected taste/texture, and affordable.
Bion believes there is an opportunity, without the
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to deliver a large supply of a consistent product will be critical to the large retail distribution partners Bion will seek to include
−Removed: Our first-mover advantage should allow us to capture a significant portion of the early adopters in what market studies indicate
−Removed: is a potentially large, and essentially unserved, market.
+Added: Our first/early-mover advantage should allow us to capture a significant portion of the early adopters in what market studies
+Added: indicate is a potentially large, and essentially unserved, market.
In parallel with the beef demonstration project described
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sustainable and sustainable-organic brands.
−Removed: The Ribbonwire LOI and Dalhart Project (discussed above), representing the first fruition
−Removed: of this initiative, will most likely be our first large scale sustainable/organic beef JV with development commencing during the 2023
−Removed: calendar year.
+Added: One of the three LOIs (Ribbonwire/Olson/DVG )(discussed above), representing the first fruition
+Added: of this initiative, will most likely be our first large scale sustainable beef JV with development commencing during the 2024 calendar
Bion intends to pursue its ‘beef opportunity’
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these attributes in their products.
−Removed: While we anticipate a faster adoption of tracking, verifying, and sustainability technologies in other
−Removed: perishable categories like produce and dairy due to their harvest and production techniques, meat industry leaders have announced their
−Removed: willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
−Removed: Bion predicts that within five years, consumers will be able to track and verify
−Removed: claims including sustainability on 25% of the products merchandised in the meat department.
−Removed: Bion believes that the retail market share
−Removed: of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % in three (3) years (end of 2025) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2027)
−Removed: (approximately 2,000,000 cattle annually) (and more thereafter).
−Removed: If Bion can successfully execute on its sustainable beef business plan,
−Removed: facilities utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will provide one-third (1/3) or more of that of the market segment (and a higher portion
+Added: While we anticipate a faster adoption of tracking, verification and sustainability technologies in
+Added: other perishable food categories like produce and dairy due to their shorter product cycles (and related harvest and production techniques),
+Added: meat industry leaders have also announced their willingness to move forward with initiatives in this area.
+Added: Many companies have announced
+Added: ‘sustainability’ initiatives but most appear to consist largely of ‘greenwashing’ marketing commitments rather
+Added: than substantive undertakings at this date.
+Added: Note, however, that Tyson’s Brazen beef initiative (which was announced during March
+Added: 2023) may develop into a substantive competitive factor in the sustainable beef marketplace.
+Added: Bion predicts that within approximately five
+Added: years, consumers will be able to track and verify claims including sustainability on 25% (or more) of the products merchandised in the
+Added: meat department.
+Added: Bion believes that the retail market share of verifiably sustainable beef in the US will approach 7-10 % within three
+Added: (3) years (end of 2026) and 25% in five (5) years (end of 2028) (approximately 6-7,000,000 cattle annually) (and more thereafter).
+Added: can successfully execute on its sustainable beef business plan (which is subject to many contingencies), we believe that JV facilities
+Added: utilizing Bion’s Gen3Tech platform will supply one-third (1/3) or more of that of the premium market segment (and a higher portion
of meat that is actually traceable and verifiably sustainable).
Our goal is to have multiple sustainable beef projects under development
−Removed: (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of 2023.
−Removed: Our first commercial project is likely to be the Dalhart Project but we anticipate commencing
−Removed: additional sustainable beef projects during 2023 as well.
−Removed: Our current target is to have at least three (3) 15,000 head modules (“Modules”)
−Removed: in development/under construction during 2023 in three (3) different JVs with the initial barns being populated by winter 2024-25.
−Removed: expansion in the number of distinct JVs is projected through 2025 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process -- each of which JVs will be pursuing
−Removed: development of multiple Modules -- with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2025 (approximately 2%-3% of the US beef market)
−Removed: and 30-45 Modules constructed and populated by 2027-28 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
−Removed: During this period, Bion’s current goal is that its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the “sustainable
−Removed: beef” category at the end of the period (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
+Added: (within 3-5 distinct JVs) by the end of our 2025 fiscal year.
+Added: Our first commercial project is likely to be one of our current LOI Projects
+Added: but we anticipate commencing development of additional sustainable beef projects during the current fiscal year as well.
+Added: Our current target
+Added: is to have at least three (3) facility modules (15,000 head per module)(“Modules”) in development and/or under construction
+Added: during 2024 in three (3) different JVs with the initial barns being populated with livestock during 2025.
+Added: Further expansion in the number
+Added: of distinct JVs is projected through 2026-7 aiming at 5-10 JVs in process --- each of which JVs will be pursuing development of multiple
+Added: Modules with targets of 12-15 populated Modules by the end of 2026 (approximately 2%-3% of the US beef market) and 30-45 Modules constructed
+Added: and being populated by 2029 (approximately 6%-8% of the US beef market) with further expansion thereafter.
+Added: Bion’s current goal is
+Added: that its Gen3Tech platform will be utilized to produce 33% of the verifiable “sustainable beef” category at the end of the
+Added: period (which will equal approximately 2 million cattle annually)(45 Modules).
There is no assurance that the Company will reach
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Retrofit Gen3Tech Project:
−Removed: Kreider Poultry
−Removed: JV (“Kreider 2”)
−Removed: The JV Kreider 2 Gen3Tech project is intended
−Removed: to treat the waste from Kreider Farms’ approximately six million egg layer chickens (with capacity for an additional three million
−Removed: layers)(and potentially 1,600 dairy cows).
−Removed: The Project will be designed for an initial capacity of 450 tons per day of waste and will
−Removed: remove nitrogen and phosphorus from the waste stream that will be converted into high-value coproducts instead of polluting local and
−Removed: downstream waters.
−Removed: The Project is planned to be built in multiple phases and may be expanded to include a ‘central processing facility’
−Removed: with modules that will accept transported waste from the region on a fee basis.
+Added: Kreider Poultry JV
+Added: (“Kreider 2”)
+Added: The JV Kreider 2 Gen3Tech project is intended to treat
+Added: the waste from Kreider Farms’ approximately six million egg layer chickens (with capacity for an additional three million layers)(and
+Added: potentially 1,600 dairy cows).
+Added: The Project will be designed for an initial capacity of 450 tons per day of waste and will remove nitrogen
+Added: and phosphorus from the waste stream that will be converted into high-value coproducts instead of polluting local and downstream waters.
+Added: The Project is planned to be built in multiple phases and may be expanded to include a ‘central processing facility’ with
+Added: modules that will accept transported waste from the region on a fee basis.
Bion has a long-standing relationship with Kreider
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waste-related pollution issues, and they will be forced to adopt new strategies, as well.
−Removed: When competitively-bid markets for nutrient
−Removed: reductions (and/or other means to monetize environmental benefits) become fully established, Bion anticipates a robust opportunity to
−Removed: use its Gen3Tech-based platforms to retrofit both existing CAFOs and equip new large-scale livestock facilities (“Projects”)
−Removed: which will generate the supplemental revenue needed to profitably afford technology implementation from sales of verified nutrient reduction
+Added: In the face of a growing problem that will only
+Added: be exacerbated by climate change, it will be necessary to go beyond status quo solutions or risk losing the ecosystems that comprise many
+Added: of our watersheds and estuaries.
+Added: When competitively-bid markets for nutrient reductions
+Added: (and/or other forms of payment for ecosystem services that will allow us to monetize environmental benefits) become fully established,
+Added: Bion anticipates a robust opportunity to use its Gen3Tech-based platforms to retrofit both existing CAFOs and equip new large-scale livestock
+Added: facilities (“Projects”) which will generate the supplemental revenue needed to profitably afford technology implementation
+Added: from sales of verified nutrient reduction credits.
Bion's Gen3Tech can provide a solution to a significant
−Removed: portion to the livestock problem discussed above because it prevents the uncontrolled release to the environment of most of the nutrients
−Removed: from the CAFO waste stream, while treating the waste stream and recovering a substantial portion of those nutrients for value-added commercial
−Removed: Our technology platform largely eliminates ammonia emissions, other substantial greenhouse gas emissions, odors and other
−Removed: harmful air pollutants.
−Removed: Additionally, the platform destroys virtually all pathogens in the waste stream that have been linked to foodborne
−Removed: illnesses and growing antibiotic resistance.
−Removed: Similar to point-source treatment, such as provided by an industrial or municipal wastewater
−Removed: treatment plants, the performance of Bion’s technology platform can be precisely monitored, measured and quantified (in contrast
−Removed: to the modeled, in-exact - and so far, disappointing - results from modeled BMPs).
−Removed: Third-party data from our facilities can provide the
−Removed: basis for verified environmental credits, and related revenues, as well as sustainable branding claims.
+Added: portion of the livestock problem discussed above, because it upcycles the nutrients, providing a pathway to export and precision apply
+Added: them when and where needed, which prevents the uncontrolled release to the environment of most of the nutrients from the CAFO waste stream.
+Added: Treatment costs are offset by recovering a substantial portion of those nutrients for value-added commercial utilization.
+Added: Our technology platform largely eliminates ammonia
+Added: emissions, other substantial greenhouse gas emissions, odors and other harmful air pollutants.
+Added: Additionally, the platform destroys virtually
+Added: all pathogens in the waste stream that have been linked to foodborne illnesses and growing antibiotic resistance.
+Added: Similar to point-source
+Added: treatment, such as provided by an industrial or municipal wastewater treatment plant, the performance of Bion’s technology platform
+Added: can be precisely monitored, measured and quantified (in contrast to the modeled, in-exact - and so far, disappointing - results from modeled
+Added: Third-party data from our facilities can provide the basis for verified environmental credits, and related revenues, as well as
+Added: sustainable branding claims.
In contrast, the current clean water strategy being
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is clearly failing, because it doesn’t adequately address waste from agriculture.
−Removed: About half of U.S.
−Removed: are now fertilized with raw, untreated manure.
−Removed: However, approximately 75 percent of the nitrogen in that manure is not utilized by the
−Removed: plants being fertilized but rather ‘escapes’ to contaminate the environment through various pathways.
−Removed: Because livestock waste
−Removed: is one of the largest contributors to nutrient problems in our watersheds, livestock waste treatment can be the source of the low-cost
+Added: A lot of U.S.
+Added: crops are now
+Added: fertilized with raw, untreated manure.
+Added: However, approximately 80 percent of the nitrogen in that manure is not utilized by the plants
+Added: being fertilized but rather ‘escapes’ to contaminate the environment through various pathways.
+Added: Because livestock waste is
+Added: one of the largest contributors to nutrient problems in certain watersheds, livestock waste treatment can be the source of the low-cost
solution for such problems – if the waste is treated upstream at (or close to) the source of production.
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There is no longer any real question regarding whether such facilities need to be cleaned
−Removed: The actual question for public policy concerns developing sources of new revenues which will enable the livestock industry to offset
+Added: The actual question for public policy concerns is developing sources of new revenues which will enable the livestock industry to offset
the implementation costs for the cleanup.
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the last several decades, the U.S.
−Removed: animal-protein industry remains (in large part) a fragmented, low-margin commodity business without
−Removed: effective integrated efforts toward either environmentally or economically sustainable production.
−Removed: Cleaning it up will have to be orderly
−Removed: and contain a path to sustainability that does not cause U.S.
+Added: animal-protein industry, particularly beef, remains (in large part) a fragmented, low-margin commodity
+Added: business without effective integrated efforts toward either environmentally or economically sustainable production.
+Added: Cleaning it up will
+Added: have to be orderly and contain a path to sustainability that does not cause U.S.
food costs to spike or bankrupt the industry.
−Removed: This will require treatment
−Removed: sufficient to remove the volume of nutrients in excess of crop requirements.
−Removed: Because the global export market represents a significant
−Removed: part of the U.S.
−Removed: livestock production industry, direct increases in federal regulation without offsetting revenues would likely create
−Removed: costs that could not be absorbed by the industry in a manner that would allow it to remain competitive in international markets.
−Removed: state regulation would have a similar chilling effect within the U.S., since regulated producers in one state would be unable to compete
−Removed: with unregulated producers in adjoining states.
+Added: require treatment sufficient to remove the volume of nutrients in excess of crop requirements.
+Added: Because the global export market represents
+Added: a significant part of the U.S.
+Added: livestock production industry, direct increases in federal regulation without offsetting revenues would
+Added: likely create costs that could not be absorbed by the industry in a manner that would allow it to remain competitive in international
+Added: Selective state regulation would have a similar chilling effect within the U.S., since regulated producers in one state would
+Added: be unable to compete with unregulated producers in adjoining states.
Subsidies and/or new revenue sources are required.
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competitively-bid nutrient reduction procurement) is inevitable.
−Removed: It will provide the taxpayer with accelerated and substantially lower-cost verified air
−Removed: and water quality solutions compared to current strategy.
−Removed: If Bion’s technology is implemented in appropriate situations, it will
−Removed: provide the livestock industry with the recurring revenues that are needed to offset the costs of technology adoption without major disruption
−Removed: to the industry.
−Removed: To date, a wide range of entrenched interests have opposed and fought policy change that might reallocate clean water
−Removed: spending to more cost-effective alternatives;
−Removed: but this common-sense approach is being accepted by a widening group of stakeholders.
+Added: It will provide the taxpayer with accelerated and substantially lower-cost (and
+Added: verified) air and water quality solutions compared to current strategies.
+Added: If Bion’s technology is implemented in appropriate
+Added: situations, it will provide the livestock industry with the recurring revenues that are needed to offset the costs of technology adoption
+Added: without major disruption to the industry.
+Added: To date, a wide range of entrenched interests have opposed and fought policy change that might
+Added: reallocate clean water spending to more cost-effective alternatives;
+Added: but this common-sense approach is being accepted by a widening group
+Added: of stakeholders.
NOTE, THAT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RESULTANT
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(of which there is no assurance), would materially impact JV project economics (including the Dalhart Project and the Kreider 2 project).
+Added: Further, we believe that AD projects will ultimately be required to utilize ammonia control technologies, since ammonia emissions are
+Added: an area of increasing concern, and AD exacerbates the release of ammonia from the organic waste stream.
Note that a bipartisan 2013 Pennsylvania legislative study projected
that creating a competitive bidding program to procure verified nitrogen reductions to meet federal Chesapeake Bay mandates, regardless
−Removed: of source , could reduce the state’s tax- and ratepayer-funded compliance costs by up to 80 percent (approximately $1.5B
+Added: of source , could reduce the state’s tax- and ratepayer-funded compliance costs by up to 80 percent (approximately $1.5B annually).
The legislative study was updated in 2018 to reflect new policies.
−Removed: The updated report projects savings of up to 90 percent.
−Removed: As discussed in the original study, much of the savings were due to low-cost high-impact manure control projects (Bion’s technology
−Removed: figured prominently in the report).
−Removed: Senate Bill 575, which was supported by legislative leadership, national livestock interests
−Removed: and other key stakeholders (and is consistent with US EPA policies), which would have established a competitive procurement program and
−Removed: unlock some of these opportunities in PA was passed during June 2019 by the Pennsylvania Senate voted 33 to 17 but one effect of the
−Removed: Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been that PA funding for new initiatives is largely ‘on hold’ at the present time.
−Removed: Bion anticipates
−Removed: that after passage of a similar bill in the future (of which there is no assurance), PA will establish a competitively-bid market for
−Removed: nutrient credits within twelve months after legislative passage and being signed into law by the Governor.
+Added: The updated report projected savings of up to 90 percent.
+Added: in the original study, much of the savings were due to low-cost high-impact manure control projects (Bion’s technology figured prominently
+Added: in the report).
+Added: Senate Bill 575, which was supported by legislative leadership, national livestock interests and other key stakeholders
+Added: (and is consistent with US EPA policies), which would have established a competitive procurement program and unlock some of these opportunities
+Added: in PA was passed during June 2019 by the Pennsylvania Senate voted 33 to 17 but one effect of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been that
+Added: PA funding for new initiatives is largely ‘on hold’ at the present time.
+Added: Bion anticipates that after passage of a similar
+Added: bill in the future (of which there is no assurance), PA will establish a competitively-bid market for nutrient credits within twelve months
+Added: after legislative passage and being signed into law by the Governor.
See “ Pre-Gen3Tech:
Chesapeake Bay Watershed:
−Removed: Kreider Farms Projects/Pennsylvania Initiatives ” below for discussion of the history and status of
−Removed: matters in PA.
+Added: Kreider Farms
+Added: Projects/Pennsylvania Initiatives ” below for discussion of the history and status of matters in PA.
In a 2017 Letter of Expectation to PA’s
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financing projects with uncertain outcomes and taxpayer risks.
−Removed: We believe that such strategies
−Removed: being developed in Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake Bay, if implemented, are likely to serve as a model for the 40 other states now seeking
−Removed: solutions to similar water quality problems.
+Added: Not surprisingly, the primary opponents
+Added: of this strategy are the entrenched interests of the clean water status quo, although how much longer they can avoid accountability for
+Added: a failing strategy remains to be seen.
+Added: We believe that such strategies that may be developed
+Added: in Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake Bay, if implemented, are likely to serve as a model for the 40 other states now seeking solutions to
+Added: similar water quality problems.
Today, most states face a similar issue---unfunded federal clean water mandates.
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Going Concern:
−Removed: The Company’s audited
−Removed: financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 were prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company has net income of $8,292,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The Company has incurred net losses of approximately
−Removed: $3,451,000 for the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: The Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: financial statements as of and for the year ended June 30, 2022 includes a “going concern” explanatory paragraph which means
−Removed: that there are factors that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company has
−Removed: incurred net losses from operations of approximately $2,550,000 and $2,828,000 for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: At June 30, 2022, the Company has working capital and a stockholders’ deficit of approximately $1,364,000 and $932,000, respectively.
−Removed: Management’s plans with respect to these matters are described in this section and in our consolidated financial statements (and
−Removed: notes thereto), and this material does not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: However, there
−Removed: is no guarantee that we will be able to raise sufficient funds or further capital for the operations planned in the near future.
+Added: The Company’s audited financial
+Added: statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company has not generated significant
+Added: revenues and incurred a net income of $8,291,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022 and a net loss of approximately $3,189,000 during
+Added: the year ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: The net income for the year ended June 30, 2022 was largely due to a one-time, non-cash event of the
+Added: dissolution of PA-1 resulting in a gain of approximately $10,235,000 as well as a one-time gain of $902,000 from the sale of the
+Added: Company’s ‘biontech.com’ domain pursuant to a purchase agreement during the period.
+Added: At June 30, 2023, the Company
+Added: has a working deficit and a stockholders’ equity of approximately $968,000 and $4,194,000, respectively.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: June 30, 2023 the Company had debt modifications that resulted in a reduction of debt of $3,522,000 and an increase in equity in the same amount.
+Added: These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability or classification of assets or the
+Added: amounts and classification of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
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intends to implement its first Gen3Tech systems during the current fiscal year.
−Removed: Our Gen3Tech and Gen3Tech platform provide the basis
−Removed: for our planned JVs and Projects and therefore constitute our ‘principal products’.
+Added: Our Gen3Tech and Gen3Tech platform provide the basis for
+Added: our planned JVs and Projects and therefore constitute our ‘principal products’.
Each Bion system (whether prior 2G Tech or current
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Bion's Gen3Tech platform creates potentially profitable business opportunities to provide waste treatment
−Removed: services and systems and/or renewable energy production capability to existing large livestock operations (of which there are many),
−Removed: and potentially to smaller facilities through aggregation of waste streams.
+Added: services and systems and/or renewable energy production capability to existing large livestock operations (of which there are many), and
+Added: potentially to smaller facilities through aggregation of waste streams.
However, this is not our primary focus.
−Removed: Candidates for these
−Removed: solutions include individual CAFO facilities that face impending regulatory action, CAFOs that wish to expand or relocate, and operations
−Removed: located in regions that suffer severe and immediate environmental issues, such as the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Great Lakes region and/or
−Removed: the San Joaquin Valley, where financial incentives (such as nutrient reduction credit trading programs) are (or may become) available
−Removed: that encourage voluntary reductions of nutrient releases and/or atmospheric emissions from agricultural sources.
+Added: Candidates for these solutions
+Added: include individual CAFO facilities that face impending regulatory action, CAFOs that wish to expand or relocate, and operations located
+Added: in regions that suffer severe and immediate environmental issues, such as the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Great Lakes region and/or the
+Added: San Joaquin Valley, where financial incentives (such as nutrient reduction credit trading programs) are (or may become) available that
+Added: encourage voluntary reductions of nutrient releases and/or atmospheric emissions from agricultural sources.
+Added: See ‘ HISTORY, BACKGROUND AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES’
Sustainable/Organic Corn-Fed Beef Opportunity
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at some length above.
−Removed: It is the Company’s current intention to initiate several JVs pursuing this opportunity as developer of,
−Removed: technology provider to, and direct participant.
+Added: It is the Company’s current intention to initiate several JVs pursuing this opportunity as developer of, technology
+Added: provider to, and direct participant.
See discussion above.
While it is not possible at this time to firmly predict
−Removed: where the initial JVs and/or Project will be developed or the order in which JVs and Projects will be developed, the Dalhart Project
−Removed: (see discussion above) will most likely be the Company’s first large scale Gen3Tech commercial project.
−Removed: All potential JVs and/or
−Removed: Projects are in very early pre-development stages and may never progress to actual development or may be developed after other JVs and/or
−Removed: Projects not yet under active consideration.
+Added: where the initial JVs and/or Project will be developed or the order in which JVs and Projects will be developed, the Dalhart Project (see
+Added: discussion above) will most likely be the Company’s first large scale Gen3Tech commercial project.
+Added: All potential JVs and/or Projects
+Added: are in very early pre-development stages and may never progress to actual development or may be developed after other JVs and/or Projects
+Added: not yet under active consideration.
The Company's successful accomplishment of its business
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Successful completion of organic certifications and USDA PVP-certified sustainable brand;
−Removed: ability to raise sufficient funds to allow us to finance our activities, JVs, and Projects;
+Added: Our ability to raise sufficient funds to allow us to finance our activities, JVs, and Projects;
Regulatory and enforcement policies at the Federal, State and local levels.
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and Chesapeake Bay Initiatives
−Removed: Bion’s activities in Pennsylvania
−Removed: (“PA”) commenced with the Kreider 1 2G Tech dairy system in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
−Removed: This retrofit installation was
−Removed: designed and intended primarily to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus releases and ammonia emissions from the dairy waste streams to
−Removed: generate tradable nutrient reduction credits as part of a nutrient credit trading program through the PA Department of Environmental
−Removed: Protection (‘PADEP’).
−Removed: While this project was not a commercial success (due to PA’s failure to implement a viable
−Removed: long-term credit trading market), it demonstrated that Bion’s manure treatment technology can generate low-cost verified
−Removed: credits and provided the basis of a 2013 PA Legislative Budget and Finance Committee report (updated in 2018) that supports the use
−Removed: of manure technologies to provide low-cost alternatives to meet Bay mandates.
+Added: Bion’s activities in Pennsylvania (“PA”)
+Added: commenced with the Kreider 1 2G Tech dairy system in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
+Added: This retrofit installation was designed and intended
+Added: primarily to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus releases and ammonia emissions from the dairy waste streams to generate tradable nutrient
+Added: reduction credits as part of a nutrient credit trading program through the PA Department of Environmental Protection (‘PADEP’).
+Added: While this project was not a commercial success (due to PA’s failure to implement a viable long-term credit trading market), it
+Added: demonstrated that Bion’s manure treatment technology can generate low-cost verified credits and provided the basis of a 2013 PA
+Added: Legislative Budget and Finance Committee report (updated in 2018) that supports the use of manure technologies to provide low-cost alternatives
+Added: to meet Bay mandates.
It is possible that the Kreider 2 poultry waste treatment
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of nitrogen reduction under long-term contracts, of which there is no assurance.
−Removed: Bion further believes that with the studies and information now available to other states that are (or will shortly be) facing these same
−Removed: decisions, a cost-benefit analysis will make it clear from the outset that competitive bidding for nutrient reduction credits from alternative
−Removed: approaches can provide dramatically lower-cost solutions than traditional strategies.
+Added: further believes that with the studies and information now available to other states that are (or will shortly be) facing these same decisions,
+Added: a cost-benefit analysis will make it clear from the outset that competitive bidding for nutrient reduction credits from alternative approaches
+Added: can provide dramatically lower-cost solutions than traditional strategies.
The Kreider 2 poultry waste treatment facility in
−Removed: PA may be one of our initial Gen3Tech Projects.
−Removed: Bion intends that it will select a site for the Kreider 2 Project and/or its initial Integrated
−Removed: Project (and possibly additional Projects) after PA adopts a competitively-bid nutrient reduction Credit purchase program (see discussion
−Removed: above and below).
+Added: PA may be one of our initial Gen3Tech Projects outside of the sustainable beef segment.
+Added: However, Bion intends that it will select a site
+Added: for the Kreider 2 Project and/or its initial Integrated Project (and possibly additional Projects) only after PA adopts a competitively-bid
+Added: nutrient reduction Credit purchase program (see discussion above and below).
CORPORATE BACKGROUND
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December 31, 1987.
−Removed: Our principal executive offices are now located at the residence of our Office Manager at 9 East Park Court, Old Bethpage,
−Removed: New York 11804, at which location most of the Company’s physical records and central computer reside.
−Removed: Our primary telephone number
−Removed: is 516-586-5643.
−Removed: We have no additional offices at this time as all employees and primary consultants work from their home offices.
+Added: Our principal executive offices are located in the home offices of our senior executives.
+Added: Our primary administrative
+Added: office is now located at the residence of our Office Manager at 9 East Park Court, Old Bethpage, New York 11804, at which location most
+Added: of the Company’s physical records and central computer reside.
+Added: Our primary telephone number is 516-586-5643.
+Added: We have no additional
+Added: offices at this time as all employees and primary consultants work from their home offices.
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF OUR BUSINESS
−Removed: Substantially all of our business and operations
−Removed: to date has been conducted through wholly-owned subsidiaries, Bion Technologies, Inc.
+Added: Substantially all of our business and operations to
+Added: date has been conducted through wholly-owned subsidiaries, Bion Technologies, Inc.
(a Colorado corporation organized September 20, 1989),
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Pennvest Loan and Bion PA1 LLC (“PA1”)
−Removed: PA1, the Company’s
−Removed: wholly-owned subsidiary, was dissolved on December 29, 2021 on which date it owed approximately $10,010,000 under the terms of the Pennvest
−Removed: Loan related to the construction of the Kreider 1 System including accrued interest and late charges totaling $2,255,802 as of that date.
−Removed: Through the date of the dissolution, PA1 was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and its assets and liabilities were included on
−Removed: the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: At September 30, 2021, PA1’s total assets were $297 and its total liabilities were
−Removed: $10,154,334 (including the Pennvest Loan in the aggregate amount of $9,939,148, accounts payable of $214,235 and accrued liabilities of
−Removed: $950) which sums were included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
−Removed: Subsequent to the dissolution of PA1, its assets and liabilities are no longer consolidated and included in the Company’s
+Added: PA1, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary,
+Added: was dissolved on December 29, 2021 on which date it owed approximately $10,010,000 under the terms of the Pennvest Loan related to the
+Added: construction of the Kreider 1 System including accrued interest and late charges totaling $2,255,802 as of that date.
+Added: Through the date
+Added: of the dissolution, PA1 was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and its assets and liabilities were included on the Company’s
consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: As of December 29, 2021,
−Removed: PA1’s total assets were nil and its total liabilities were $10,234,501 (including the Pennvest Loan in the aggregate amount of $10,009,802,
−Removed: accounts payable of $212,263 and accrued liabilities of $12,436.
−Removed: The net amount of $10,234,501 was recognized as a gain on the legal dissolution
−Removed: of a subsidiary in other (income) expense.
−Removed: As background, the terms
−Removed: of the Pennvest Loan provided for funding of up to $7,754,000 which was to be repaid by interest-only payments for three years, followed
−Removed: by an additional ten-year amortization of principal.
−Removed: The Pennvest Loan accrued interest at 2.547% per annum for years 1 through 5 and
−Removed: 3.184% per annum for years 6 through maturity.
−Removed: The Pennvest Loan required minimum annual principal payments of approximately $5,886,000
−Removed: in fiscal years 2013 through 2021, and $846,000 in fiscal year 2022, $873,000 in fiscal year 2023 and $149,000 in fiscal year 2024.
−Removed: Pennvest Loan was collateralized by PA1’s Kreider 1 System and by a pledge of all revenues generated from Kreider 1 including, but
−Removed: not limited to, revenues generated from nutrient reduction credit sales and by-product sales.
−Removed: In addition, in consideration for the excess
−Removed: credit risk associated with the project, Pennvest was entitled to participate in the profits from Kreider 1 calculated on a net cash flow
−Removed: basis, as defined.
−Removed: The Company has incurred interest expense related to the Pennvest Loan of $123,444 and $246,887 for the years ended
−Removed: June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: Based on the limited development of the depth and breadth of the Pennsylvania nutrient reduction
−Removed: credit market, PA1 commenced discussions and negotiations with Pennvest related to forbearance and/or re-structuring the obligations under
−Removed: the Pennvest Loan during 2013.
−Removed: In the context of such negotiations, PA1 elected not to make interest payments to Pennvest on the Pennvest
−Removed: Loan since January 2013.
−Removed: Additionally, the PA1 did not make any principal payments, which were to begin in fiscal 2013, and, therefore,
−Removed: the Company classified the Pennvest Loan as a current liability through the dissolution of PA1 on December 29, 2021.
−Removed: During August 2012, the Company
−Removed: provided Pennvest (and the PADEP) with data demonstrating that the Kreider 1 system met the ‘technology guaranty’ standards
−Removed: which were incorporated in the Pennvest financing documents and, as a result, the Pennvest Loan has been solely an obligation of PA1 since
−Removed: Note, however, the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 reflects the Pennvest Loan as a liability
−Removed: of $9,868,495 despite the fact that the obligation (if any) was solely an obligation of PA1 .
+Added: At September 30, 2021, PA1’s total assets were $297 and its total liabilities were $10,154,334 (including
+Added: the Pennvest Loan in the aggregate amount of $9,939,148, accounts payable of $214,235 and accrued liabilities of $950) which sums were
+Added: included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: Subsequent to the
+Added: dissolution of PA1, its assets and liabilities are no longer consolidated and included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: As of December 29, 2021, PA1’s total assets were nil and its total liabilities were $10,234,501 (including the Pennvest Loan in
+Added: the aggregate amount of $10,009,802, accounts payable of $212,263 and accrued liabilities of $12,436.
+Added: The net amount of $10,234,501 was
+Added: recognized as a gain on the legal dissolution of a subsidiary in other (income) expense.
+Added: As background, the terms of the Pennvest Loan provided
+Added: for funding of up to $7,754,000 which was to be repaid by interest-only payments for three years, followed by an additional ten-year amortization
+Added: of principal.
+Added: The Pennvest Loan accrued interest at 2.547% per annum for years 1 through 5 and 3.184% per annum for years 6 through maturity.
+Added: The Pennvest Loan required minimum annual principal payments of approximately $5,886,000 in fiscal years 2013 through 2021, and $846,000
+Added: in fiscal year 2022, $873,000 in fiscal year 2023 and $149,000 in fiscal year 2024.
+Added: The Pennvest Loan was collateralized by PA1’s
+Added: Kreider 1 System and by a pledge of all revenues generated from Kreider 1 including, but not limited to, revenues generated from nutrient
+Added: reduction credit sales and by-product sales.
+Added: In addition, in consideration for the excess credit risk associated with the project, Pennvest
+Added: was entitled to participate in the profits from Kreider 1 calculated on a net cash flow basis, as defined.
+Added: The Company has incurred interest
+Added: expense related to the Pennvest Loan of $123,444 and $246,887 for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: Based on the limited
+Added: development of the depth and breadth of the Pennsylvania nutrient reduction credit market, PA1 commenced discussions and negotiations
+Added: with Pennvest related to forbearance and/or re-structuring the obligations under the Pennvest Loan during 2013.
+Added: In the context of such
+Added: negotiations, PA1 elected not to make interest payments to Pennvest on the Pennvest Loan since January 2013.
+Added: Additionally, the PA1 did
+Added: not make any principal payments, which were to begin in fiscal 2013, and, therefore, the Company classified the Pennvest Loan as a current
+Added: liability through the dissolution of PA1 on December 29, 2021.
During August 2012, the Company provided Pennvest
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Note, however,
+Added: the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 reflects the Pennvest Loan as a liability of $9,868,495 despite the
+Added: fact that the obligation (if any) was solely an obligation of PA1 .
+Added: During August 2012, the Company provided Pennvest
+Added: (and the PADEP) with data demonstrating that the Kreider 1 system met the ‘technology guaranty’ standards which were incorporated
+Added: in the Pennvest financing documents and, as a result, the Pennvest Loan has been solely an obligation of PA1 since that date.
+Added: Note, however,
the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2021 reflects the Pennvest Loan as a liability of $9,868,495 despite the
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to remove and sell the equipment.” Pennvest responded favorably to the approach of selling the equipment.
−Removed: On December 29, 2021, the
−Removed: Company approved and executed a ‘Consent of the Sole Member of Bion PA 1’ (the “Consent to Dissolution”) that
−Removed: authorized the complete liquidation and dissolution of PA1.
−Removed: A Statement of Dissolution was filed by PA1 with the Colorado Secretary of
−Removed: State on December 29, 2021.
−Removed: The Company is of the understanding that the liquidation value of Bion PA 1’s property is substantially
−Removed: below the current amount outstanding under the Funding Agreement dated October 27, 2010 by and between PA1 and Pennvest, the only known
−Removed: secured creditor of PA1.
−Removed: Post-dissolution, PA1’s activities will be limited entirely to activities required to properly distribute
−Removed: its net assets to creditors and wind down its business.
−Removed: PA1 and Pennvest agreed to
−Removed: have the equipment sold by a third party auctioneer who arranged for the sale of its property and delivery of all proceeds (net
−Removed: of commissions and customary costs of sale) to Pennvest.
+Added: On December 29, 2021, the Company approved and executed
+Added: a ‘Consent of the Sole Member of Bion PA 1’ (the “Consent to Dissolution”) that authorized the complete liquidation
+Added: and dissolution of PA1.
+Added: A Statement of Dissolution was filed by PA1 with the Colorado Secretary of State on December 29, 2021.
+Added: is of the understanding that the liquidation value of Bion PA 1’s property is substantially below the current amount outstanding
+Added: under the Funding Agreement dated October 27, 2010 by and between PA1 and Pennvest, the only known secured creditor of PA1.
+Added: Post-dissolution,
+Added: PA1’s activities will be limited entirely to activities required to properly distribute its net assets to creditors and wind down
+Added: its business.
+Added: PA1 and Pennvest agreed to have the equipment sold
+Added: by a third party auctioneer who arranged for the sale of its property and delivery of all proceeds (net of commissions and customary
+Added: costs of sale) to Pennvest.
The auction took place during the period between May 13-18, 2022.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: personnel assisted PA1 with this process as needed at no cost to PA1.
−Removed: The net sum of $104,725 was realized from the asset sale, which
−Removed: sum was delivered to Pennvest on June 15, 2022.
−Removed: The remaining unsold assets will be transferred to Kreider Farms during the next quarter
−Removed: in order to complete the winding up of the Kreider 1 project.
−Removed: Upon the complete distribution
−Removed: of all assets of PA1, whether by transfer or sale and distribution of net proceeds as provided above, PA1 will use commercially reasonable
−Removed: efforts to cause the cessation of all activities.
+Added: The Company’s personnel assisted PA1
+Added: with this process as needed at no cost to PA1.
+Added: The net sum of $104,725 was realized from the asset sale, which sum was delivered
+Added: to Pennvest on June 15, 2022.
+Added: The remaining unsold assets will be transferred to Kreider Farms during the next quarter in order to complete
+Added: the winding up of the Kreider 1 project.
+Added: Upon the complete distribution of all assets of PA1,
+Added: whether by transfer or sale and distribution of net proceeds as provided above, PA1 will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause
+Added: the cessation of all activities.
No distributions of PA1’s assets will be made to the Company or its affiliates.
−Removed: The Consent to Dissolution authorized Mark A.
−Removed: Smith, the Company’s President and the sole manager of PA1, to cause to be delivered
−Removed: for filing the Statement of Dissolution, to give notice of the dissolution, and to take any other act necessary to wind up and liquidate
−Removed: the business.
−Removed: PA1 has made no payments
−Removed: to vendors or other creditors in connection with the dissolution.
−Removed: No distributions or payments of any kind have ever been made to the
−Removed: Company, the sole member of PA1 since inception and no payment will be made to the Company or any affiliate in connection with the dissolution.
−Removed: For more information regarding
−Removed: the history and background of the Pennvest Loan and PA1, please review our Form 10-K Annual Reports for the years from 2008 through 2021
−Removed: including the Notes to the Financial Statements included therein.
+Added: The Consent to
+Added: Dissolution authorized Mark A.
+Added: Smith, the Company’s President and the sole manager of PA1, to cause to be delivered for filing the
+Added: Statement of Dissolution, to give notice of the dissolution, and to take any other act necessary to wind up and liquidate the business.
+Added: PA1 has made no payments to vendors or other creditors
+Added: in connection with the dissolution.
+Added: No distributions or payments of any kind have ever been made to the Company, the sole member of PA1
+Added: since inception and no payment will be made to the Company or any affiliate in connection with the dissolution.
+Added: For more information regarding the history and background
+Added: of the Pennvest Loan and PA1, please review our Form 10-K Annual Reports for the years from 2008 through 2021 including the Notes to the
+Added: Financial Statements included therein.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed:
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Executive Order concerning clean-up of the Chesapeake Bay and the EPA’s publication and issuance during December 2010 of the Chesapeake
−Removed: Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) standard (http://www.epa.gov/reg3wapd/tmdl/ChesapeakeBay/tmdlexec.html )
−Removed: for nutrient pollution in Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
−Removed: In May 2010, the EPA published their overall strategy for remediating the Chesapeake
−Removed: Bay, and they have committed to reducing nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the Bay sufficiently to enable 60% of the Bay watershed segments
−Removed: to meet water quality standards by 2025.
−Removed: At that time, 89 of the 92 Bay and tidal watershed segments were not in compliance with
−Removed: water quality standards (97% were out of compliance).
−Removed: The EPA and associated state agencies also committed to short-term 3-year
−Removed: compliance milestones to enhance accountability and corrective actions, along with a host of definable and measurable goals, enhanced
−Removed: partnerships, and major environmental initiatives.
−Removed: Based on these actions, greater compliance has been required commencing with
−Removed: the 2016 ‘water year’.
−Removed: EPA documents defined the overall mission as requiring an approximately 65-million-pound annual
−Removed: reduction from existing nitrogen (N) loading to the Chesapeake Bay by 2025, of which 35 million pounds was allocated to Pennsylvania.
−Removed: Importantly, the 3-year compliance milestones were established as a part of the compliance program to add both short- and long-term accountability
−Removed: to state actions associated with reduced nutrient and sediment flows to the Chesapeake Bay.
−Removed: According to the EPA’s Interim Evaluation
−Removed: of Pennsylvania’s Milestone Progress published in June 2015, PA was 14.6 million pounds behind its 2014-2015 milestone commitments
−Removed: for nitrogen, a remarkably large deficit given the previously stated 2-million-pound deficit from the 2012-2013 water year.
−Removed: has placed PA’s agriculture and urban/suburban sectors under a “Backstop Actions Level”, the highest level of EPA oversight.
−Removed: EPA has also stated that if load reductions remain off track, EPA may consider seeking additional (and expensive) pollutant reductions
−Removed: from the wastewater sector.
+Added: Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) standard (http://www.epa.gov/reg3wapd/tmdl/ChesapeakeBay/tmdlexec.html) for nutrient pollution
+Added: in Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
+Added: In May 2010, the EPA published their overall strategy for remediating the Chesapeake Bay, and they have
+Added: committed to reducing nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the Bay sufficiently to enable 60% of the Bay watershed segments to meet water
+Added: quality standards by 2025.
+Added: At that time, 89 of the 92 Bay and tidal watershed segments were not in compliance with water quality
+Added: standards (97% were out of compliance).
+Added: The EPA and associated state agencies also committed to short-term 3-year compliance milestones
+Added: to enhance accountability and corrective actions, along with a host of definable and measurable goals, enhanced partnerships, and major
+Added: environmental initiatives.
+Added: Based on these actions, greater compliance has been required commencing with the 2016 ‘water year’.
+Added: EPA documents defined the overall mission as requiring an approximately 65-million-pound annual reduction from existing nitrogen (N) loading
+Added: to the Chesapeake Bay by 2025, of which 35 million pounds was allocated to Pennsylvania.
+Added: Importantly, the 3-year compliance milestones
+Added: were established as a part of the compliance program to add both short- and long-term accountability to state actions associated with
+Added: reduced nutrient and sediment flows to the Chesapeake Bay.
+Added: According to the EPA’s Interim Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s Milestone
+Added: Progress published in June 2015, PA was 14.6 million pounds behind its 2014-2015 milestone commitments for nitrogen, a remarkably large
+Added: deficit given the previously stated 2-million-pound deficit from the 2012-2013 water year.
+Added: EPA has placed PA’s agriculture
+Added: and urban/suburban sectors under a “Backstop Actions Level”, the highest level of EPA oversight.
+Added: EPA has also stated
+Added: that if load reductions remain off track, EPA may consider seeking additional (and expensive) pollutant reductions from the wastewater
In an effort to get back on track and hold off federal
−Removed: intervention, PA unveiled a purported “comprehensive strategy” to "reboot"
−Removed: the state's efforts to improve water quality in January 2016.
−Removed: The reboot strategy relied upon a mix of enhanced farm compliance
−Removed: and enforcement activities along with the promotion of additional best management practices (BMP).
−Removed: This proposed strategy has been
−Removed: met with skepticism about its efficacy/practicality and resistance within the agricultural community.
−Removed: While many of these reboot efforts
−Removed: are continuing today, the PADEP Secretary resigned in May 2016 and PA appears to have slowed implementation efforts recently while seeking
−Removed: alternative approaches to reduce PA’s nitrogen pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.
−Removed: The EPA has continued to reject PA’s proposed
−Removed: plans related to the Chesapeake Bay clean-up mandate as inadequate.
−Removed: Recent reports indicate that PA is in need of 32 million pounds of
−Removed: nitrogen reductions to meet its requirements.
−Removed: Litigation has been initiated against PA and the EPA by neighboring states to compel performance
−Removed: by PA and enforcement by the EPA.
−Removed: The recent PA budget spending package that was passed by the PA legislature in 2022 includes allocation
−Removed: of some PA’s remaining pandemic relief funding for clean water related to either the Chesapeake Bay compliance mandates or state
−Removed: water quality.
−Removed: However, it appears that the funds will likely be expended on existing unsuccessful programs and clean-up strategies.
+Added: intervention, PA unveiled a purported “comprehensive strategy” to "reboot" the state's efforts to improve water
+Added: quality in January 2016.
+Added: The reboot strategy relied upon a mix of enhanced farm compliance and enforcement activities along with
+Added: the promotion of additional best management practices (BMP).
+Added: This proposed strategy has been met with skepticism about its efficacy/practicality
+Added: and resistance within the agricultural community.
+Added: While many of these reboot efforts are continuing today, the PADEP Secretary resigned
+Added: in May 2016 and PA appears to have slowed implementation efforts recently while seeking alternative approaches to reduce PA’s nitrogen
+Added: pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.
+Added: The EPA has continued to reject PA’s proposed plans related to the Chesapeake Bay clean-up mandate
+Added: as inadequate.
+Added: Recent reports indicate that PA is in need of 32 million pounds of nitrogen reductions to meet its requirements.
+Added: has been initiated against PA and the EPA by neighboring states to compel performance by PA and enforcement by the EPA.
+Added: The recent PA
+Added: budget spending package that was passed by the PA legislature in 2022 includes allocation of some PA’s remaining pandemic relief
+Added: funding for clean water related to either the Chesapeake Bay compliance mandates or state water quality.
+Added: However, it appears that the
+Added: funds will likely be expended on existing unsuccessful programs and clean-up strategies.
As a result of PA’s default of its Bay mandates,
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Bion undertook this project (through PA1)
−Removed: due, in large part, to Pennsylvania's nutrient credit trading program, which was established to provide cost-effective reductions of
−Removed: the excess flow of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) into the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
−Removed: Bion worked extensively with the Pennsylvania
−Removed: Department of Environmental Protection ('PADEP') over several years to establish nutrient credit calculation/ verification methodologies
−Removed: that were appropriate to Bion's 2G Tech and recognizes its 'multi-media' (both water and atmospheric) approach to nutrient reductions.
−Removed: Pennsylvania's nutrient credit trading program allows for voluntary credit trading between a 'non-point source' (such as a dairy or other
−Removed: agricultural sources) and a 'point source' polluter, such as a municipal waste water treatment plant or a housing development.
−Removed: the market for long term Credits in PA has failed to develop any significant breadth or depth and no Credits were sold by PA1 from the
−Removed: Kreider 1 system.
+Added: due, in large part, to Pennsylvania's nutrient credit trading program, which was established to provide cost-effective reductions of the
+Added: excess flow of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) into the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
+Added: Bion worked extensively with the Pennsylvania Department
+Added: of Environmental Protection ('PADEP') over several years to establish nutrient credit calculation/ verification methodologies that were
+Added: appropriate to Bion's 2G Tech and recognizes its 'multi-media' (both water and atmospheric) approach to nutrient reductions.
+Added: Pennsylvania's
+Added: nutrient credit trading program allows for voluntary credit trading between a 'non-point source' (such as a dairy or other agricultural
+Added: sources) and a 'point source' polluter, such as a municipal waste water treatment plant or a housing development.
+Added: However, the market
+Added: for long term Credits in PA has failed to develop any significant breadth or depth and no Credits were sold by PA1 from the Kreider 1
The original Kreider agreements also provided for
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RECENT FINANCINGS
−Removed: Sales of Common Stock during 2022 and 2021 Fiscal
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2022, 2,315,550 warrants
−Removed: were exercised to purchase 2,315,550 shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.75 per share for total proceeds of $1,736,662, net
−Removed: proceeds of $1,718,061 after commissions of $18,601.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2022, Smith elected
−Removed: to convert accounts payable of $17,711 into an aggregate of 35,424 units at $0.50 per unit (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive
−Removed: Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of the common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for
−Removed: $0.75 per share until December 31, 2024.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2022, the Company issued
−Removed: 25,000 units at $1.10 per until for services of $27,500.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Company entered
−Removed: into subscription agreements, under three different offerings, to sell units for $0.50 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share
−Removed: of the Company’s restricted common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s restricted common stock for
−Removed: $0.75 per share with an expiry date of December 31, 2021 and pursuant thereto, the Company issued 3,720,000 units for total proceeds of
+Added: Sales of Common Stock
+Added: during 2023 and 2022 Fiscal Years
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2023 the Company entered into subscription agreements to sell units for $1.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one
+Added: share of the Company’s restricted common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s restricted common stock
+Added: for $1.25 per share with an expiry date of 12/31/2023, and pursuant thereto, the Company issued 346,230 units for total proceeds of $346,230.
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2023 the Company entered into subscription agreements to sell shares for $1.00 per share and pursuant thereto, the Company
+Added: issued 2,000,000 of the Company’s restricted common stock for total proceeds of $2,000,000.
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2023 the Company entered into subscription agreements to sell units for $1.60 per unit, with each unit consisting of one
+Added: share of the Company’s restricted common stock and one-half warrant to purchase shares of the Company’s restricted common
+Added: stock for $2.40 per share with an expiry date of 6/30/2024 and pursuant thereto, the Company issued 975,000 units for total proceeds of
$1,560,000, net proceeds of $1,473,600 after commissions of $86,400.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021 300,000 shares
−Removed: of the Company’s restricted company stock were sold to an investor for $300,000.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, 129,364 shares
−Removed: of its unregistered common stock were issued as commissions.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Company issued
−Removed: 1,186,824 units to various employees/consultants upon the conversion of debt (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with
−Removed: each unit consisting of one share of the common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per
−Removed: share until June 30, 2023.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, Smith elected
−Removed: to convert deferred compensation, accrued interest and accounts payable of $124,698, $3,342 and $52,360 respectively into an aggregate
−Removed: of 360,805 units at $0.50 per unit (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of the common
−Removed: stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per share until December 31, 2024.
During the year
−Removed: ended June 30, 2021, the Company issued 144,000 units to Smith for salary of $72,000, (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan)
−Removed: with each unit consisting of one share of the common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for $0.75
−Removed: per share until December 31, 2024.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, 4,065,988 warrants
−Removed: were exercised to purchase 4,065,988 shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.75 per share for total proceeds of $3,049,491.
−Removed: There are a significant number of competitors in the
−Removed: waste treatment industry who are working on animal related pollution issues.
−Removed: Probably the most efficient way to assess competition in
−Removed: this industry is to review the Newtrient, LLC catalogue which is produced by an organization created by the dairy industry to help farmers,
−Removed: technology providers, manure-based product developers and other stakeholders assess manure related challenges and opportunities .
−Removed: Many of the technologies reviewed by and organized by Newtrient in their catalog, such as Bion, address manure streams in addition to
−Removed: The potential competition has increased with the growing governmental and public concern focused on pollution due to CAFO wastes.
−Removed: Waste treatment lagoons which depend on anaerobic microorganisms ("anaerobic lagoons") are the most common traditional treatment
−Removed: process for animal waste on large farms within the swine and dairy industries.
−Removed: Additionally, many beef feedlots, poultry facilities
−Removed: and dairy farms simply scrape and accumulate manure for later field application.
−Removed: Both lagoon and scrape/pile manure storage approaches
−Removed: are coming under increasing regulatory pressure due to associated odor, nutrient management and water quality issues and are facing possible
−Removed: phase-out in some states.
−Removed: Although we believe that Bion’s comprehensive solution is the most economically and technologically
−Removed: viable solution for the current problems, other alternative (though partial) solutions do exist, including, for example, synthetic lagoon
−Removed: covers (which are placed on the top of the water in the lagoon to trap the gases), methane digesters (a tank which uses anaerobic microorganisms
−Removed: to break down the waste to produce methane), multistage anaerobic lagoons and solids separators (processes which separate large solids
−Removed: from fine solids), as well as various thermal waste-to-energy technologies.
−Removed: Additionally, many efforts are underway to develop and
−Removed: test new technologies.
+Added: ended June 30, 2023, 175,114 warrants were exercised to purchase 175,114 shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.75 per share
+Added: for total proceeds of $131,335.
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2023 Mark Smith elected to convert $50,000 of his 2020 Convertible Obligation into 100,000 units at $0.50 per unit (pursuant
+Added: to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one share
+Added: of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per share until 12/31/2024.
+Added: During the year ended June 30, 2023 Mark Smith elected to convert $99,889 of his Adjusted 2020 Convertible Obligation into 1,055,906 units
+Added: at $0.0946 per unit (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one
+Added: warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per share until March 2026.
+Added: During the year ended June 30, 2023 Mark Smith elected to convert $36,573 of his Adjusted 2020 Convertible Obligation into 386,608
+Added: units at $0.0946 per unit (pursuant to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and
+Added: one warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per share until March 2026.
+Added: the year ended June 30, 2023 the Company issued 82,259 shares for services of $130,000.
+Added: During the year ended June
+Added: 30, 2022, 2,315,550 warrants were exercised to purchase 2,315,550 shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.75 per share for total
+Added: proceeds of $1,736,662, net proceeds of $1,718,061 after commissions of $18,601.
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2022, Smith elected to convert accounts payable of $17,711 into an aggregate of 35,424 units at $0.50 per unit (pursuant
+Added: to the 2006 Consolidated Incentive Plan) with each unit consisting of one share of the common stock and one warrant to purchase one share
+Added: of the Company’s stock for $0.75 per share until December 31, 2024.
+Added: During the year
+Added: ended June 30, 2022, the Company issued 25,000 units at $1.10 per until for services of $27,500.
+Added: There are a significant number of potential competitors
+Added: in the industries in which Bion is working, including livestock waste treatment, renewable energy production, and the production of sustainable
+Added: beef products.
+Added: There are a host of competitors working in the livestock
+Added: waste treatment space.
+Added: One efficient way to assess competition in these spaces is to review the Newtrient, LLC catalogue which is produced
+Added: by an organization created by the dairy industry to help farmers, technology providers, manure-based product developers and other stakeholders
+Added: assess manure related challenges and opportunities.
+Added: Many of the technologies reviewed by and organized by Newtrient in their catalog,
+Added: such as Bion, address manure streams in addition to dairy.
+Added: The potential competition has increased with the growing governmental and public
+Added: concern focused on pollution due to CAFO wastes.
+Added: Waste treatment lagoons which depend on anaerobic microorganisms ("anaerobic
+Added: lagoons" or “ADs”) are the most common traditional treatment process for animal waste on large farms within the swine
+Added: and dairy industries.
+Added: Additionally, many beef feedlots, poultry facilities and dairy farms simply scrape and accumulate manure for
+Added: later field application.
+Added: Both lagoon and scrape/pile manure storage approaches are coming under increasing regulatory pressure due to
+Added: associated odor, nutrient management and water quality issues and are facing possible phase-out in some states.
+Added: Although we believe that Bion’s comprehensive
+Added: solution is the most economically and technologically viable solution for the current problems, other alternative (though partial) solutions
+Added: do exist, including, for example, synthetic lagoon covers (which are placed on the top of the water in the lagoon to trap the gases),
+Added: stand-alone ADs (a tank which uses anaerobic microorganisms to break down the waste to produce methane), multistage and solids separators
+Added: (processes which separate large solids from fine solids), as well as various thermal waste-to-energy technologies.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: many efforts are underway to develop and test new technologies.
+Added: There is a growing industry associated with the production
+Added: of fertilizer products produced from nutrients captured in CAFO manure streams.
+Added: Many technology firms, including Bion, have figured out
+Added: how to generate nonsynthetic products which are certified for organic production, which enables a higher valuation.
+Added: Bion and its competitors
+Added: are working hard to improve the production efficiency of these products while reducing production costs.
+Added: Bion, as documented in its patents,
+Added: has invented a non-synthetic process to produce ammonium nitrogen fertilizer in solid and liquid forms.
+Added: To our understanding, no other
+Added: manure nutrient technology firm has figured out a way to match our development of a solid ammonium nitrogen fertilizer.
+Added: Competition in the renewable energy generation space
+Added: is growing in the agricultural sector, predominantly from the growth in anaerobic digestion (AD) projects designed to reduce odors and
+Added: generate revenues from captured energy and reduced carbon footprints.
+Added: AD projects are primarily associated with the dairy sector as the
+Added: manure is mostly already captured and therefore there are minimal infrastructure projects required to add on AD technology.
+Added: to evaluate the use of our technology as a ‘bolt-on’ behind dairy ADs once we have complete date from our Initial Project.
+Added: Therefore, such ‘competitors may be turned into customers for Bion.
+Added: W We are predominantly focused on generating AD projects at
+Added: beef cattle finishing operations, an area in which very few ADs have been implemented.
+Added: There is not much competition in that space as
+Added: most current beef feedlots do not engage in the type of efficient manure collection which is a required prerequisite for AD economics.
+Added: Bion has also engaged with solar photovoltaic (PV) developers to install PV panels on barn roofs, and there is some competition in that
+Added: space, but again not much in the beef cattle finishing sector.
+Added: Third there is competition in the space of production
+Added: of sustainable beef products.
+Added: A number of ranches and beef producers are working with various third-party certification organizations
+Added: to document the sustainable practices that are being implemented.
+Added: Bion is working in a similar manner.
+Added: All investments in this area are
+Added: subject to competition and decisions made by consumers---including ‘how much will a consumer pay for truly sustainable beef products
+Added: standard conventional feedlot produced beef?’
Our ability to compete is dependent upon favorable
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to introduce and market our Systems in the appropriate industry and geographic segments.
−Removed: There is also extensive competition in the sustainable
−Removed: beef and sustainable organic beef market segments and organic soil amendment/fertilizer and feed ingredient markets that are being targeted
−Removed: by Bion’s Gen3Tech JVs as discussed above.
There are many companies that are already selling
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United States Currently Issued:
−Removed: (1) 8,287,734:
Method for Treating Nitrogen in Waste Streams:
−Removed: (OCN) Jere Northrop &
+Added: (OCN) Jere Northrop & James W.
Morris (Exp 3/20/31)
−Removed: (2) 10,106,447:
Process to Recover Ammonium Bicarbonate from Wastewater:
−Removed: Morton Orentlicher &
−Removed: (3) 10,604,432:
+Added: Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
Process to Recover Ammonium Bicarbonate from Wastewater;
−Removed: Dominic Bassani,
−Removed: Steve Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
+Added: Dominic Bassani, Steve Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
(Exp 6/29/2037)
−Removed: (4) 10,793,458:
Process to Recover Ammonium Bicarbonate from Wastewater;
−Removed: Dominic Bassani, Steve
−Removed: Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
+Added: Dominic Bassani, Steve Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
(Exp 9/14/2035)
−Removed: (5) 11,254,581:
Process to Recover Ammonium Bicarbonate from Wastewater;
−Removed: Dominic Bassani, Morton Orentlicher,
+Added: Dominic Bassani, Morton Orentlicher, Mark M.
Simon & Steve Pagano.
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Methods For Recovering Ammonium Compounds From A Waste Stream;
−Removed: Dominic Bassani
−Removed: & Steve Pagan.
+Added: Dominic Bassani & Steve Pagano.
(Exp 7/07/2024)
−Removed: (2) 17/589,037:
Process to Recover Ammonium Bicarbonate from Wastewater;
−Removed: Dominic Bassani, Steve
−Removed: Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
+Added: Dominic Bassani, Steve Pagano, Morton Orentlicher & Mark M.
International Applications Currently Pending:
+Added: EP 18943551.4:
Process to recover ammonium bicarbonate from wastewater;
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including our management, to sign a non-disclosure and invention assignment agreements upon employment with us.
+Added: It may become necessary or desirable in the future
+Added: for us to obtain patent and technology licenses from other companies relating to technologies that may be employed in future products
+Added: or processes.
+Added: To date, we have not received notices of claimed infringement of patents based on our existing processes or products,
+Added: but due to the nature of the industry, we may receive such claims in the future.
+Added: We generally require all of our employees and consultants,
+Added: including our management, to sign a non-disclosure and invention assignment agreements upon employment with us.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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nitrogen fertilizer and pipeline-quality natural gas.
+Added: See discussion of Initial Project above.
During the years ended June 30, 2023 and June 30,
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