−Removed: MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
−Removed: FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
−Removed: Statements made in this Form 10-K that are not historical
−Removed: or current facts, which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs including, but not limited to, statements concerning the Company's
−Removed: operations, performance, financial condition, business strategies, and other information, involve substantial risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: The Company's actual results of operations, most of which are beyond the Company's control, could differ materially.
−Removed: These statements
−Removed: often can be identified by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," anticipate,"
−Removed: "estimate," or "continue" or the negative thereof.
−Removed: We wish to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any such
−Removed: forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made.
−Removed: Any forward-looking statements represent management's best judgment
−Removed: as to what may occur in the future.
−Removed: However, forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and important factors beyond
−Removed: our control that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from historical results of operations and events and those
−Removed: presently anticipated or projected.
−Removed: Bion disclaims any obligation subsequently to revise
−Removed: any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated
−Removed: or unanticipated events.
−Removed: The following discussion and analysis should be read
−Removed: in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements filed with this Report.
+Added: MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
+Added: OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
+Added: Statements made in this Form 10-K that are not historical or current
+Added: facts, which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs including, but not limited to, statements concerning the Company's operations,
+Added: performance, financial condition, business strategies, and other information, involve substantial risks and uncertainties.
+Added: The Company's
+Added: actual results of operations, most of which are beyond the Company's control, could differ materially.
+Added: These statements often can be identified
+Added: by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," anticipate," "estimate,"
+Added: or "continue" or the negative thereof.
+Added: We wish to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements,
+Added: which speak only as of the date made.
+Added: Any forward-looking statements represent management's best judgment as to what may occur in the
+Added: However, forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and important factors beyond our control that could cause
+Added: actual results and events to differ materially from historical results of operations and events and those presently anticipated or projected.
+Added: These factors include potential
+Added: conflicts of interest related to the BLG loan group, its control by two of Bion’s Directors and key management, and its security
+Added: position in the Company’s IP (see below, Item K), adverse economic conditions, entry of new and stronger competitors, inadequate
+Added: capital and limited ability to obtain financing, needed personnel and equipment, unexpected costs, failure (or delay) to gain product
+Added: certifications and/or regulatory approvals in the United States (or particular states) or foreign countries, loss (permanently or for
+Added: any extended period of time) of the services of members of the Company’s small core management team and failure to obtain access
+Added: to new markets.
+Added: Additional risks and uncertainties that may affect forward looking statements about Bion's business and prospects include:
+Added: i) the possibility that markets for eco-friendly/sustainable beef, organic and low-carbon fertilizer products, and clean fuels will be
+Added: slow to develop (or not develop at all), ii) the possibility that competitors will develop more comprehensive and/or less expensive environmental
+Added: solutions, viii) delays in market awareness of Bion and our Systems, iv) uncertainties and
+Added: costs increases related to research and development efforts to update and improve Bion’s technologies and applications thereof,
+Added: and/or v) delays and/or costs exceeding expectations relating to Bion's development of the Initial Project, JVs and/or Projects and vi)
+Added: failure of marketing strategies, each of which could have both immediate and long term material adverse effects by placing us behind our
+Added: competitors and requiring expenditures of our limited resources.
+Added: Bion disclaims any obligation subsequently to revise any forward-looking
+Added: statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated
+Added: The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction
+Added: with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements filed with this Report.
BUSINESS OVERVIEW AND PLAN
−Removed: The Company has been under substantial financial and
−Removed: management stress over the past eighteen (18) months.
−Removed: Covid-related delays during technology pilot development at Buflovak in New York,
−Removed: followed by post-Covid supply chain disruptions during construction of our demonstration facility at Fair Oaks, have led to extreme difficulties
−Removed: in raising needed funds.
−Removed: These delays prevented us from meeting our project development and related capital timelines, and were further
−Removed: compounded by the death (following extended illness) of Dominic Bassani, who most recently served as our COO from May 2022 after serving
−Removed: as our CEO for the prior decade, the subsequent resignation of Bill O’Neill, Dominic’s replacement at the CEO position, effective
−Removed: May 31, 2024, followed by the anticipated retirement of Mark A.
−Removed: Smith, the Company’s President, General Counsel and Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer, effective July 31, 2024.
−Removed: Since the end of May 2024, a new core leadership team
−Removed: has been installed (see H and I, below) and a short-term funding facility has been implemented (see J, below) while longer term capital
−Removed: solutions are evaluated.
−Removed: Our new leadership team believes the financial and management difficulties Bion has faced are outweighed by the
−Removed: success of our technology demonstration and optimization initiatives at our Fair Oaks facility.
−Removed: This success coincides with clear and
−Removed: growing trends in both sustainable agriculture and clean fuels technology and policy that favor Bion’s technology and business opportunities.
−Removed: Bion leadership believes this confluence of events positions the Company, assuming it aligns with appropriate strategic partners and obtains
−Removed: sufficient financing, to exploit a unique opportunity to participate in transformational change at the intersection of agriculture, renewable
−Removed: energy and clean fuels, clean air and water, and evolving consumer demand.
−Removed: The Company is not currently generating
−Removed: any significant revenues.
−Removed: Further, the Company’s anticipated revenues, if any, from existing Projects, JVs and proposed Projects
−Removed: will not be sufficient to meet the Company’s anticipated operational and capital expenditure needs for many years.
−Removed: Current liabilities
−Removed: were approximately $5.8 million at June 30, 2024 which represents an increase of approximately $4.2 million from June 30, 2023 (largely
−Removed: due to an increase in ‘accounts payable and accrued expenses’ totaling approximately $2.1 million and an increase in ‘current
−Removed: debt’ of approximately $2.1 million as a result of the Company’s limited success in raising new financing (equity and/or debt)
−Removed: and existing debt terms becoming current during the recent period combined with continued expenses (including those related to the Initial
−Removed: Similarly, the Company’s cash on hand decreased from approximately $626,000 to approximately $52,000 over the same period.
−Removed: The Company extreme difficulty is obtaining needed funds during the entire 2023 fiscal year has continued throughout the first quarter
−Removed: of the current fiscal year to date.
−Removed: Going Concern and Management’s Plans, Plan of Operations and Outlook and ITEM 2.
−Removed: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Note 11 Subsequent Events (below).
−Removed: Previous management believed that
−Removed: the Initial Project had reached the point where it could be appropriately deemed ‘placed in service’ at January 1, 2024.
−Removed: discussions with the key technical and engineering personnel involved at the Initial Project during the recently concluded quarter convinced
−Removed: management that such a characterization was premature as some key modules had not yet been completed and/or fully tested at that date.
−Removed: Additionally, due to some equipment break-downs, the Initial Project was in maintenance mode rather than conducting operations, while
−Removed: the Company awaited required replacement parts and subsequent repairs.
−Removed: This process was slowed by the Company’s ongoing difficulties
−Removed: in raising needed funds for its activities.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors re-evaluated the classification/status of the Initial
−Removed: Project as part of the Company’s annual review process and determined that the Initial Project should have been ‘placed in
−Removed: service’ at the June 30, 2024, fiscal year end.
−Removed: Further, after extensive discussion between previous
−Removed: management and the Board, it was determined that the ‘carrying value’ of the Initial Project, as of that date, be reduced
−Removed: to $0 on the Company balance sheet, in order to conform with accepted accounting practices.
−Removed: Bion’s technology demonstration system
−Removed: was always planned as a small scale integrated Gen3Tech beef project.
−Removed: Due to covid-related delays and increased capital constraints, it
−Removed: was decided to move quickly to initially construct Phase 1, which was the standalone ARS at Fair Oaks.
−Removed: As matters progressed, including
−Removed: cost overruns, management and financial crises, etc., Bion was unable to proceed further at Fair Oaks.
−Removed: It was anticipated that the ARS
−Removed: would be relocated to another site (potential locations included Ribbonwire Ranch or University of Nebraska-Lincoln) after providing the
−Removed: final design data, where it would be integrated with a small scale Gen3Tech beef facility as originally planned.
−Removed: We recently learned it
−Removed: would not be economically feasible to decommission and disassemble the ARS, then transport, reassemble, and recommission it at another
−Removed: Therefore, since the Initial Project is now:
−Removed: i) largely a research & development facility and ii) is located on land subject
−Removed: to a short-term lease, it no longer has commercial value and was written down to $0.
−Removed: As a result, a large ‘one time/non-recurring’
−Removed: ‘non-cash’ charge of $9,460,425 has been taken by the Company, at that date, which charge reduced the Company shareholders’
−Removed: equity to ($5,808,501) and resulted in a loss of $11,691,115 for the 2024 fiscal year.
−Removed: On September 28, 2023, in order to partially
−Removed: mitigate the problems discussed above, the Company entered into an agreement for a $1,500,000 bridge loan and executed documents including
−Removed: a convertible promissory note (“Note”) and a binding subscription agreement (“Subscription”) (collectively the
−Removed: Note and the Subscription are the “Bridge Loan Agreements”) with SEB LLC, a non-affiliated party (“Lender”).
−Removed: Bridge Loan Agreements require the Lender to loan the Company $1,500,000 in six monthly tranches of $250,000 commencing October 2023.
−Removed: All sums advanced under the Bridge Loan Agreements (and accrued interest thereon) would be due and payable (with interest accrued at 9%
−Removed: per annum) on October 1, 2024, if not previously converted into securities of the Company.
−Removed: The Note is convertible at $1.00 per unit,
−Removed: at the sole election of the Lender, into units consisting of one share of the Company’s common stock and a warrant to purchase one
−Removed: The initial $250,000 tranche was received by the Company on October 5, 2023.
−Removed: However, no further funds were received by the
−Removed: Company from the Lender.
−Removed: During early November 2023 the Lender informed the Company verbally that it did not intend to fulfill its obligations
−Removed: pursuant to the Bridge Loan Agreements and since such time the Lender has been in default (“Default”).
−Removed: On May 10, 2024, the
−Removed: Company received $150,000 from affiliates of the Bridge Loan Lender on terms not yet finalized and included in an agreement.
−Removed: were received in the context of negotiations/discussions regarding a potential larger investment by affiliates and/or associates of the
−Removed: Lender, but no further funds were received, and the larger transaction was never completed.
−Removed: The funds were used primarily to re-initiate
−Removed: operations at the Initial Project.
−Removed: The Default (which is continuing) has created substantial problems for and materially damaged the Company
−Removed: and rendered the Company unable to meet its current creditor obligations on a timely basis.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating its rights
−Removed: regarding the Default by the Lender.
−Removed: See Notes 5 and 8 re Convertible Bridge Loan/Default and Note 11, Subsequent Events.
−Removed: This situation
−Removed: has contributed to the substantial increase in the Company’s ‘Current Liabilities’ including ‘accounts payable’
−Removed: over recent periods.
−Removed: See Consolidated Financial Statements and ‘Management’s Discussion and Analysis’.
−Removed: The Company has
−Removed: engaged in discussion/negotiation with its larger creditors (including its largest creditor--- the primary contractor on the Initial Project)
−Removed: but has been unable to reach agreements regarding payments due to the uncertainty as to if, when and how much funding the Company will
−Removed: be able to raise in future periods.
−Removed: As a result, the Company’s largest creditor---the general contractor for the Initial Project
−Removed: --- has filed a mechanics lien in Indiana (and its largest sub-contractor has sent notices related to its intention to file a mechanics
−Removed: lien) and other creditors are threatening to commence litigation and/or repossess/remove leased equipment).
−Removed: At the end of December 2023, Bion achieved
−Removed: key objectives in the optimization of the Ammonia Recovery System at our commercial-scale demonstration facility in Fair Oaks, Indiana.
−Removed: delayed by supply chain issues, the demonstration at Fair Oaks confirmed the system's state-of-the-art capabilities.
−Removed: In managements’
−Removed: opinion, the wide applicability of the ARS and its environmental benefits cannot be overstated, as livestock-related and other nutrient
−Removed: issues continue to grow, both in the U.S.
−Removed: and globally.
−Removed: On January 2, 2024, Bion received a new
−Removed: (continuation) patent that broadened the claims related to its Ammonia Recovery System (ARS) to include industrial and municipal wastewater
−Removed: sources, in addition to animal waste streams that were previously covered.
−Removed: Since that time, Bion has focused a portion of its limited
−Removed: resources on understanding and evaluating opportunities to apply its ARS as a ‘standalone’ ammonia control solution in these
−Removed: In such cases, the ARS would be deployed as a bolt-on ammonia solution (vs integrated into a Bion Gen3Tech livestock platform)
−Removed: for facilities that produce biogas from organic waste streams, such as food, food processing, and livestock packing/slaughter, that are
−Removed: subject to EPA-mandated discharge limits that require ammonia control.
−Removed: We believe at this time there is potentially a robust opportunity
−Removed: to provide ammonia control solutions to others and we intend to pursue this opportunity in the coming year.
−Removed: Effective April 1, 2024, the Company entered
−Removed: into two material definitive agreements regarding voluntary surrender for cancellation of securities of the Company (and related matters)
−Removed: a) members of the family of Dominic Bassani, recently deceased former Chief Executive Officer and (with his family) the Company’s
−Removed: largest shareholder (collectively “Bassani Family”), and b) Mark A.
−Removed: Smith, President of the Company and a director (“MAS”).
−Removed: The Bassani Family and MAS entered into these agreements with the intention of mitigating dilution to shareholders as new, successor management
−Removed: is added to the Company’s management team.
−Removed: The Bassani Family has agreed to surrender not less than approximately 20% of its Company
−Removed: holdings (as of December 2023) which surrender will increase to approximately 30% based on certain financing performances (see Form 8-K
−Removed: dated April 3, 2024, Exhibit 10.1).
−Removed: The Bassani Family will elect exactly which Company securities it will surrender for cancellation
−Removed: on or before June 30, 2024, the Company’s fiscal year end.
−Removed: The Bassani Family Agreement also sets forth requirements regarding conversion
−Removed: of convertible notes held by members of the Bassani Family after the security surrender.
−Removed: See Exhibit 10.1 for the material terms of the
−Removed: contemplated transactions.
−Removed: MAS has agreed to surrender approximately 30% of his Company holdings (as of December 2023).
−Removed: Immediately upon
−Removed: the effectiveness of the MAS Agreement, he cancelled all Company options held by him (2,425,000, in aggregate) and waived $56,250 of accrued
−Removed: deferred compensation (convertible into 75,000 shares of the Company’s common stock).
−Removed: The MAS Agreement also sets forth requirements
−Removed: regarding conversion of convertible notes held by MAS after the security surrender and references the planned retirement of MAS on or
−Removed: before May 15, 2024.
−Removed: See Exhibit 10.2 for the material terms of the contemplated transactions.
−Removed: Subsequently, and effective June 27, 2024,
−Removed: the Board of Directors of the Company agreed to amend the terms of the agreements dated April 1, 2024.
−Removed: The amendments solely extend any
−Removed: dates of certain required conversions and/or exercises (and related promissory note maturity dates and warrant expiration dates), if any,
−Removed: that were earlier than January 15, 2025, to said date.
−Removed: No changes were made regarding any ‘givebacks’ of securities of the
−Removed: On June 30, 2024, the Bassani Family provided the Company with their list regarding surrender of 20% of its Company holdings
−Removed: (as of December 2023) (See Exhibit 10.1).
−Removed: As previously reported, MAS has previously completed 100% of his ‘give backs’.
−Removed: On May 13, 2024, the Board of Directors
−Removed: commenced a Board-led review of potential strategic alternatives to ensure the Company’s survival and to enhance Bion’s potential
−Removed: growth and maximize shareholder value.
−Removed: The review will include assessing approaches to optimize the Company’s multiple business
−Removed: opportunities through alternative capital return strategies, potential strategic or financial transactions, and developing strategic initiatives
−Removed: best applicable to each opportunity created by our technology in order to consider all possible paths towards maximizing value creation.
−Removed: No timetable has been established for the conclusion of this review and no decisions related to any further actions or potential strategic
−Removed: alternatives have been made at this time.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the review will result in any transaction or other strategic
−Removed: change or outcome.
−Removed: Effective May 31, 2024, Bion accepted the
−Removed: resignation of Bill O’Neill, both as CEO and Director.
−Removed: O’Neill had previously informed the Board that he believed he was
−Removed: not being adequately compensated or incentivized and the job was too difficult.
−Removed: On May 21, 204, Bion received a letter from Mr.
−Removed: that expressed his dissatisfaction with the Board’s refusal to address his demands and stated he was resigning to pursue other opportunities,
−Removed: despite the fact he had not yet completed the last year+ of a three-year agreement.
−Removed: Bion chose to accept his resignation in the belief
−Removed: the Company needed a change in leadership and approach.
−Removed: On June 1, 2024, Craig Scott joined the
−Removed: Company's Board of Directors.
−Removed: Scott has served Bion in several senior positions, dating back to 1996.
−Removed: Scott also agreed to assume
−Removed: a broader management role for Bion and subsequently accepted the role of interim Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Also in June, Greg Schoener
−Removed: assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer on an interim basis.
−Removed: He also joined Bion's Board of Directors.
−Removed: Schoener is a successful
−Removed: business owner and operator, serving the construction industry in Houston, Texas.
−Removed: He brings broad business management experience, with
−Removed: an emphasis on mission-focused execution and accountability.
−Removed: He has been a Bion shareholder since late-2020.
−Removed: Bob Weerts, another Bion
−Removed: shareholder and a successful serial entrepreneur from Winnebago, Minnesota, also accepted a position on Bion’s Board of Directors.
−Removed: On June 18, 2024, Bion formed a strategic
−Removed: relationship with Turk Stovall and Stovall Ranching Companies with the goal of developing a 15,000-head sustainable beef project at Stovall’s
−Removed: Yellowstone Cattle Feeders (YCF) location in Shepherd, Montana.
−Removed: The YCF feedyard is a traditional outdoor dirt feedlot that today is permitted
−Removed: to feed up to 25,000 head.
−Removed: Stovall also agreed to join Bion's Board of Directors and lead a joint venture between Stovall Ranching
−Removed: Companies and Bion to develop the project.
−Removed: The facility is envisioned to produce premium quality Montana beef that we believe will be
−Removed: the 'cleanest', most eco-friendly finished beef in the marketplace.
−Removed: On August 23, 2024, Bion announced that
−Removed: three affiliates of the Company (Greg Schoener, Interim COO & Director;
−Removed: Turk Stovall, Director;
−Removed: Bob Weerts, Director) and two shareholders
−Removed: (one of whom is the brother of Greg Schoener) have agreed to advance to the Company, through a newly formed LLC, up to $500,000 in consideration
−Removed: of a secured convertible promissory note.
−Removed: It is anticipated that others will join the LLC, although there can be no assurance they will.
−Removed: The note instrument and agreements have not been executed at this time because terms and other details have not been finalized yet;
−Removed: the group has begun advancing money to the Company.
−Removed: As of the date of the filing of this report, the aggregate sum of $201,564 has been
−Removed: advanced to the Company, together with express directions on what items were to be paid with such funds.
−Removed: When a final agreement is executed,
−Removed: it will be attached as an exhibit to a Form 8-K.
−Removed: Change in Approach
−Removed: Through the end of calendar 2022, Bion’s strategy
−Removed: to exploit the beef opportunity was focused on developing an initial sustainable beef project as ‘proof of concept’.
−Removed: beginning of 2023, under the guidance of our last CEO, Bion’s strategy shifted to executing multiple letters of intent and agreements
−Removed: for sustainable beef JV projects and moving forward with development of those projects in quick succession.
−Removed: During our 2023 fiscal year,
−Removed: Bion entered into three (3) letters of intent (“LOIs”):
−Removed: a) July 2022 letter of intent to develop a large-scale commercial
−Removed: project - a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation together with the Ribbonwire Ranch (“Ribbonwire LOI”), in
−Removed: Dalhart, Texas (with a provision to expand to 60,000 head) (“Dalhart Project”), b) January 2023 letter of intent to develop
−Removed: a large-scale commercial project - a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation together with the Olson Feeders and TD Angus
−Removed: (“Olson LOI”), near North Platte, Nebraska (with a provision to expand to 45,000 head or more) (“Olson Project”),
−Removed: c) April 2023 letter of intent to develop a large-scale commercial project - a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation together
−Removed: with Dakota Valley Growers (“DVG LOI”) near Bathgate, North Dakota (“DVG Project”).
−Removed: Based on our experience, we
−Removed: believe it will not be difficult to secure participation in our Projects from additional feeders/cattlemen, especially once project financing
−Removed: and offtake agreements for both protein and co-products, are in place.
−Removed: Bion’s new leadership team has returned the
−Removed: company to its earlier approach, focusing on building a ‘flagship’ first project to prove concept feasibility and to provide
−Removed: a development and finance model for future projects.
−Removed: Leadership made this decision after determining that a) a large addressable market
−Removed: for sustainable beef does exist and consumers have demonstrated a ‘willingness to pay’ a premium for sustainable food products;
−Removed: however, since such products cannot be supplied today at scale, it is not a ‘ready’ market and will take time to develop),
−Removed: b) an entrenched industry is never eager for change and it will only occur through enlightened/ proven self-interest, and c) investment
−Removed: capital of the magnitude needed for large scale conversion to sustainable production will first require proof of concept.
−Removed: Leadership believes for several reasons that the best
−Removed: opportunity for the Company to prove its sustainable beef concept at this time is with the Stovall Ranch JV in Montana.
−Removed: In June 2024,
−Removed: Bion formed a strategic relationship with Turk Stovall and Stovall Ranching Companies.
−Removed: Turk Stovall is a fifth-generation Montana cattleman,
−Removed: with an extensive graduate-level education in cattle husbandry and an MBA in agribusiness, and he is the largest custom cattle feeder
−Removed: He also has broad experience and relationships with both the U.S.
−Removed: and Montana’s beef industry and important state leaders,
−Removed: resources, and agencies.
−Removed: Bion and Stovall have agreed to establish a JV, to be led by Mr.
−Removed: Stovall, with the goal of developing a 15,000-head
−Removed: sustainable beef project at Stovall’s Yellowstone Cattle Feeders (‘YCF’) location in Shepherd, Montana.
−Removed: We anticipate
−Removed: establishing the Stovall-Bion JV and creating related distribution agreements with key value chain partners during the current calendar
−Removed: year, with the intent to begin construction before the end of 2024.
−Removed: ____________________________________
−Removed: The Company’s on-going difficulties raising
−Removed: needed funds over the past two years have rendered the Company unable to meet its current creditor obligations on a timely basis.
−Removed: Company has engaged in discussion/negotiation with its larger creditors (including its largest creditor--- the primary contractor on the
−Removed: Initial Project) but has been unable to reach agreements regarding payments due to the uncertainty as to if, when, and how much funding
−Removed: the Company will be able to raise in future periods.
−Removed: As a result, the Company’s largest creditor---the general contractor for the
−Removed: Initial Project --- has filed a mechanics in Indiana (and its largest sub-contractor has sent notices related to its intention to file
−Removed: a mechanics lien), other creditors are threatening to commence litigation and/or repossess/remove leased equipment and the Company is
−Removed: behind on its Lease payments related to the site of the Initial Project.
−Removed: On September 5, 2024, three members of the LLC (Subsequent Events,
−Removed: Aug 23, 2024, below) met with representatives of two of the largest creditors:
−Removed: the primary contractor and the property lessor.
−Removed: and ultimate resolution are ongoing and subject to Bion’s ability to raise capital in a timely manner.
−Removed: We have implemented extreme
−Removed: cost savings measures:
−Removed: maintaining only mission-critical operations and funding, on a weekly basis, only those expenses needed to maintain
−Removed: those operations.
−Removed: These measures will continue until we can execute a larger financing or obtain other sources of capital, such as a potential
−Removed: strategic investor/partner or license agreement.
−Removed: Bion is currently (and has been for some time) in
−Removed: discussions with several companies related to potential strategic partnerships in renewable energy – RNG and solar – and clean
−Removed: fuels, as well as reducing the carbon footprint of livestock production, especially beef.
−Removed: With today’s U.S, and global emphasis
−Removed: on decarbonizing energy and the food supply chain, the sectors have become closely intertwined, they are evolving quickly, and integrated
−Removed: solutions have become increasingly desired, but complex.
−Removed: Bion is now evaluating both European and U.S.
−Removed: renewable energy developers, operators,
−Removed: and investors to determine the best fit for moving forward with AD/RNG development for its own beef project(s), animal waste treatment
−Removed: for others, both here and in the EU, as well as a development partner in industrial and municipal opportunities.
−Removed: Bion believes that such
−Removed: a relationship would entail a direct investment in Bion, licensing fee, or some other ‘up front’ financial benefit to Bion.
−Removed: Bion’s new leadership team is strongly committed
−Removed: to Bion’s continuation, its future success, and its shareholders.
−Removed: We have returned the company to its earlier approach of focusing
−Removed: on building a ‘flagship’ first project to prove the concept and markets and provide a development and finance model for future
−Removed: projects, instead of attempting to move forward on multiple projects simultaneously or in rapid succession.
−Removed: We believe this will put us
−Removed: on a more achievable path.
−Removed: Further, this strategy will substantially reduce our need for capital, and we believe that a more reasonable
−Removed: and credible objective will make it easier to raise that capital.
−Removed: We also believe that the recent changes in leadership, including the
−Removed: addition of Turk Stovall to that leadership team, will lend validation and credibility to Bion and its business plan, making it easier
−Removed: to raise capital from potential strategic, institutional, and retail investors.
−Removed: For several reasons, we think that the best opportunity
−Removed: to finance a project, and to prove the sustainable beef concept, is with the Stovall Ranch JV in Montana and we are exploring a wide range
−Removed: of alternatives related to funding both the JV and Bion.
−Removed: THERE IS NO ASSURANCE THAT THE COMPANY WILL REACH
−Removed: OR APPROACH THE GOALS/TARGETS SET FORTH ABOVE.
−Removed: REACHING SUCH GOALS/TARGETS WILL REQUIRE RESOLUTION OF THE COMPANY’S EXISTING FINANCIAL
−Removed: DIFFICULTIES AND ACCESS TO VERY LARGE AMOUNTS OF CAPITAL (EQUITY AND DEBT) AS EACH BEEF PROJECT MODULE IS PROJECTED TO COST IN EXCESS
−Removed: OF $50 MILLION (DEBT/EQUITY/GRANTS) TO CONSTRUCT AND WILL REQUIRE MOBILIZATION OF SUBSTANTIAL PERSONNEL, TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT
−Removed: THE COMPANY DOES NOT POSSESS EITHER THE FINANCIAL OR PERSONNEL RESOURCES INTERNALLY AND WILL NEED TO SOURCE SUCH RESOURCES FROM
−Removed: OUTSIDE ITSELF.
+Added: The Company has been under substantial financial
+Added: and management stress over the past eighteen (18) months.
+Added: Covid-related delays during technology pilot development at Buflovak in New
+Added: York, followed by post-Covid supply chain disruptions during construction of our demonstration facility at Fair Oaks, have led to extreme
+Added: difficulties in raising needed funds.
+Added: These delays prevented us from meeting our project development and related capital timelines, and
+Added: were further compounded by the death (following extended illness) of Dominic Bassani, who most recently served as our COO from May 2022
+Added: after serving as our CEO for the prior decade, the subsequent resignation of Bill O’Neill, Dominic’s replacement at the CEO
+Added: position, effective May 31, 2024, followed by the retirement of Mark A.
+Added: Smith, the Company’s President, General Counsel
+Added: and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 31, 2024.
+Added: At the end of May 2024, a new core leadership
+Added: team was installed (see H and I, above) and a short-term funding strategy was implemented (see K, above) while longer term capital solutions
+Added: were pursued.
+Added: These efforts are ongoing.
+Added: Our new leadership team believes the difficulties Bion has faced are outweighed by our recent
+Added: successes that include the technology demonstration and optimization at our Fair Oaks facility and the initial responses from our fertilizer
+Added: This is coupled with strong recent interest in our ammonia control solution from the biogas operators and developers that will
+Added: be needed to ensure a supply of feedstock for our fertilizer products.
+Added: These successes coincide with growing trends in sustainable agriculture
+Added: and clean fuels technology and policy that favor Bion’s business opportunities.
+Added: Bion leadership believes this confluence of events
+Added: positions the Company, assuming it aligns with appropriate strategic partners and obtains sufficient financing, to exploit a unique opportunity
+Added: at the intersection of agriculture, renewable energy, the environment, and consumer demand.
+Added: See Part 1, Item 1 – General for detailed
+Added: business overview
+Added: THERE IS NO ASSURANCE THAT THE COMPANY WILL
+Added: REACH OR APPROACH THE GOALS/TARGETS SET FORTH ABOVE.
+Added: REACHING SUCH GOALS/TARGETS WILL REQUIRE RESOLUTION OF THE COMPANY’S EXISTING
+Added: FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND ACCESS TO VERY LARGE AMOUNTS OF CAPITAL (EQUITY AND DEBT) AS EACH BOLT-ON PROJECT IS PROJECTED TO COST BETWEEN
+Added: $10 AND $40 MILLION, AND EACH BEEF PROJECT MODULE IS PROJECTED TO COST IN EXCESS OF $50 MILLION (DEBT/EQUITY/GRANTS) TO CONSTRUCT AND
+Added: WILL REQUIRE MOBILIZATION OF SUBSTANTIAL PERSONNEL, TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS.
+Added: THE COMPANY DOES NOT POSSESS EITHER THE
+Added: FINANCIAL OR PERSONNEL RESOURCES INTERNALLY AND WILL NEED TO SOURCE SUCH RESOURCES FROM OUTSIDE ITSELF.
For expanded information regarding our ‘ HISTORY,
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The Company follows the provisions of ASC
−Removed: which generally requires that share-based compensation transactions be accounted and recognized in the statement of income based upon
−Removed: their grant date fair values.
−Removed: Pursuant to ASC Topic 815 “Derivatives and Hedging”
−Removed: (“Topic 815”), the Company reviews all financial instruments for the existence of features which may require fair value accounting
−Removed: and a related mark-to-market adjustment at each reporting period end.
−Removed: Once determined, the Company assesses these instruments as derivative
−Removed: The fair value of these instruments is adjusted to reflect the fair value at each reporting period end, with any increase
−Removed: or decrease in the fair value being recorded in results of operations as an adjustment to fair value of derivatives.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2024
−Removed: and 2023, there are no derivative financial instruments.
−Removed: The Company has issued options to employees and consultants
−Removed: under its 2006 Plan to purchase common shares of the Company.
−Removed: Options are valued on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing
+Added: 718, which generally requires that share-based compensation transactions be accounted and recognized in the statement of income based
+Added: upon their grant date fair values.
+Added: Pursuant to ASC Topic 815 “Derivatives and
+Added: Hedging” (“Topic 815”), the Company reviews all financial instruments for the existence of features which may require
+Added: fair value accounting and a related mark-to-market adjustment at each reporting period end.
+Added: Once determined, the Company assesses these
+Added: instruments as derivative liabilities.
+Added: The fair value of these instruments is adjusted to reflect the fair value at each reporting period
+Added: end, with any increase or decrease in the fair value being recorded in results of operations as an adjustment to fair value of derivatives.
+Added: As of June 30, 2025 and 2024, there are no derivative financial instruments.
+Added: The Company has issued options to employees and
+Added: consultants under its 2006 Plan to purchase common shares of the Company.
+Added: Options are valued on the grant date using the Black-Scholes
+Added: option-pricing model.
The expected volatility is based on the historical price volatility of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The dividend yield represents
−Removed: the Company’s anticipated cash dividend on common stock over the expected term of the stock options.
−Removed: Treasury bill rate
−Removed: for the expected term of the stock options was utilized to determine the risk-free interest rate.
−Removed: The expected term of stock options represents
−Removed: the period of time the stock options granted are expected to be outstanding based upon management’s estimates.
+Added: yield represents the Company’s anticipated cash dividend on common stock over the expected term of the stock options.
+Added: bill rate for the expected term of the stock options was utilized to determine the risk-free interest rate.
+Added: The expected term of stock
+Added: options represents the period of time the stock options granted are expected to be outstanding based upon management’s estimates.
The Company has issued warrants to purchase common
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reflected in the consolidated statements of operations over the lease term.
−Removed: For leases with a term exceeding 12 months,
−Removed: a lease liability is recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at lease commencement reflecting the present value of
−Removed: its fixed minimum payment obligations over the lease term.
−Removed: A corresponding right-of-use (“ROU”) asset equal to the initial
−Removed: lease liability is also recorded, adjusted for any prepaid rent and/or initial direct costs incurred in connection with execution of the
−Removed: lease and reduced by any lease incentives received.
−Removed: For purposes of measuring the present value of its fixed payment obligations for a
−Removed: given lease, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate, determined based on information available at lease commencement, as rates
−Removed: implicit in its leasing arrangements are typically not readily determinable.
−Removed: The Company's incremental borrowing rate reflects the rate
−Removed: it would pay to borrow on a secured basis and incorporates the term and economic environment of the associated lease.
−Removed: YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2024 COMPARED TO THE
−Removed: YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2023
−Removed: Total revenues were nil for both the years
−Removed: ended June 30, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: For leases with a term exceeding 12 months, a
+Added: lease liability is recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at lease commencement reflecting the present value of its
+Added: fixed minimum payment obligations over the lease term.
+Added: A corresponding right-of-use (“ROU”) asset equal to the initial lease
+Added: liability is also recorded, adjusted for any prepaid rent and/or initial direct costs incurred in connection with execution of the lease
+Added: and reduced by any lease incentives received.
+Added: For purposes of measuring the present value of its fixed payment obligations for a given
+Added: lease, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate, determined based on information available at lease commencement, as rates implicit
+Added: in its leasing arrangements are typically not readily determinable.
+Added: The Company's incremental borrowing rate reflects the rate it would
+Added: pay to borrow on a secured basis and incorporates the term and economic environment of the associated lease.
+Added: ENDED JUNE 30, 2025 COMPARED TO THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2024
+Added: Total revenues were nil for both the years ended
+Added: June 30, 2025 and 2024.
General and Administrative
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ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: The $130,000 decrease in salary costs is due to Bill O’Neill resigning, Dominic Bassani
−Removed: passing away and the Company not replacing the position and a reduction in salary for Mark Smith.
−Removed: Investor relations expenses were $328,000
−Removed: and $697,000 for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and the $367,000 decrease was due to less investor related activity
+Added: The $232,000 decrease in salary costs is due to Bill O’Neill resigning, Mark Smith retirement
+Added: and Dominic Bassani passing away and the Company not replacing the position.
+Added: The $290,000 decrease in consulting costs is due to Bill
+Added: O’Neill resigning and the reduction of contracts related to capital raise efforts.
+Added: Investor relations expenses were $136,000 and
+Added: $328,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and the $192,000 decrease was due to less investor related activity
during the fiscal year in order to conserve cash.
Legal costs were $1,000 and $34,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Stock-based compensation for the years ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024 and 2023 were ($16,000) and $442,000, respectively.
−Removed: The $458,000 variance is due to less stock-based compensation issued
−Removed: in 2024 and the reversal of stock options expense for unvested options for Bill O’Neill.
+Added: Stock-based compensation for the years ended June
+Added: 30, 2025 and 2024 were $844,000 and ($16,000) respectively.
+Added: The $860,000 variance is due to warrants exercise dates extended in 2025.
Total depreciation expense was $695 and $1,582
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Total research and development expenses were $22,000
−Removed: $23,000 and $83,000 for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, representing an $60,000 decrease due to less consulting
−Removed: and other expenses being allocated to research and development.
+Added: and $23,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Salaries and related payroll tax expenses were
$6,000 and $6,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Consulting costs were $4,000 and $43,000 for the years ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The decrease of $39,000 was due to none of Brightcap’s consulting cost being allocated to
−Removed: research and development.
+Added: Consulting costs were nil and $4,000 for the years ended June
+Added: 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: Legal expenses were $15,000 and $11,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Loss from Operations
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above,
−Removed: the loss from operations was $2,071,000 and $3,157,000 for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 respectively.
+Added: As a result of the factors described above, the
+Added: loss from operations was $2,168,000 and $2,071,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 respectively.
Other (Income)/Expense
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interest was nil and nil for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Bion’s
−Removed: Common Stockholders
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above,
−Removed: the net loss attributable to Bion’s stockholders was $11,691,000 and $3,189,000 for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively,
+Added: Net Loss Attributable to Bion’s Common
+Added: As a result of the factors described above, the
+Added: net loss attributable to Bion’s stockholders was $2,380,000 and $11,691,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively,
and the net loss per basic common share was $.04 and $.22 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
−Removed: The Company's consolidated financial statements for
−Removed: the year ended June 30, 2024 have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement
+Added: The Company's consolidated financial statements
+Added: for the year ended June 30, 2025 have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement
of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.
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Cash expenditures were offset in part by proceeds from
−Removed: financing activities, primarily the exercise of warrants and sale of common shares.
−Removed: As previously noted, the Company is currently not
−Removed: generating significant revenue and accordingly has not generated cash flows from operations.
−Removed: The Company does not anticipate generating
−Removed: sufficient revenues to offset operating and capital costs for a minimum of two to five years.
−Removed: While there are no assurances that the Company
−Removed: will be successful in its efforts to develop and construct its Projects and market its Systems, it is certain that the Company will require
−Removed: substantial funding from external sources.
−Removed: As stated in multiple places in this report, over the last 12 months the Company has had only
−Removed: very limited success in raising needed funds which lack of success has had material negative effects on the Company and its business.
−Removed: Given the unsettled state of the current credit and capital markets for companies such as Bion, there is no assurance the Company will
−Removed: be able to raise the funds it needs on reasonable terms.
+Added: financing activities, primarily in debt funding.
+Added: As previously noted, the Company
+Added: is currently not generating significant revenue and accordingly has not generated cash flows from operations.
+Added: The Company does not anticipate
+Added: generating sufficient revenues to offset operating and capital costs for a minimum of two to five years.
+Added: While there are no assurances
+Added: that the Company will be successful in its efforts to develop and construct its Projects and market its Systems, it is certain that the
+Added: Company will require substantial funding from external sources.
+Added: As stated in multiple places in this report, over the last fiscal year
+Added: the Company has had only very limited success in raising needed funds which lack of success has had material negative effects on the Company
+Added: and its business.
+Added: Given the unsettled state of the current credit and capital markets for companies such as Bion, there is no assurance
+Added: the Company will be able to raise the funds it needs on reasonable terms.
Investing Activities
During the year ended June 30, 2025, the Company
−Removed: invested $869,000 in the purchase of property and equipment, primarily related to the Initial Project construction in process.
+Added: invested nil in the purchase of property and equipment or other investing activities.
Financing Activities
During the year ended June 30, 2025, the Company
+Added: received net cash proceeds of $400,000 from a note payable and $426,00 in convertible loans less commissions of $5,300.
+Added: During the year ended June 30, 2024, the Company
received net cash proceeds of $590,000 from the sale of units for $611,000 less commissions of $20,000.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2024, the Company received
−Removed: gross cash proceeds of $400,000 from a convertible bridge loan and $125,000 from a convertible loan.
As of June 30, 2025, the Company has debt obligations
consisting of:
−Removed: a) deferred compensation of $890,000, b) convertible notes payable – affiliates of $1,709,000, c) current note payable
−Removed: including accrued interest of $419,000 and d) notes payable including accrued interest of $125,600.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, the Company had
−Removed: debt obligations of a) deferred compensation of $865,000, b) convertible notes payable – affiliates of $1,716,000, and c) current
−Removed: note payable including accrued interest of nil.
+Added: a) deferred compensation of $1,173,000, b) convertible notes payable – affiliates of $1,742,000, c) current note
+Added: payable including accrued interest of $423,000 and d) convertible bridge note payable of $1,023,000.
+Added: As of June 30, 2024, the Company
+Added: had debt obligations of a) deferred compensation of $890,000, b) convertible notes payable – affiliates of $1,709,000, c) current
+Added: note payable including accrued interest of $419,000 and d) note payable including accrued interest of $125,600.
Plan of Operations and Outlook
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However, this positive trend
−Removed: did not continue during the last quarter of the 2023 fiscal year and the entirety of fiscal year 2024 (and the first quarter of 2025 through
−Removed: the date of this report).
−Removed: The Company raised very limited equity funds during such periods to meet some of its immediate needs, and therefore,
−Removed: the Company needs to raise substantial additional funds in the upcoming periods.
−Removed: The Company has faced substantial demand for capital
−Removed: and operating expenditures for the fiscal year 2024 that we anticipate will continue (or increase) during the 2025 fiscal year and periods
−Removed: thereafter as it moves toward commercial implementation of its 3G Tech and development of JVs (including costs associated with additions
−Removed: of personnel to carry out the business activities of the Company) and, therefore, is likely to continue to face, significant cash flow
−Removed: management issues due to limited capital resources and working capital constraints which had only begun to be alleviated during 2022 and
−Removed: As a result, the Company has faced, and continues to face, significant cash flow management challenges due to material working capital
−Removed: To partially mitigate these working capital constraints, the Company's core senior management and some key employees and
−Removed: consultants have been deferring most of their cash compensation and/or are accepting compensation in the form of securities of the Company
−Removed: and members of the Company's senior management have from time-to-time made loans to the Company in the past and may do so in future periods.
+Added: did not continue during the 2025 fiscal year (and the first quarter of 2026 through the date of this report).
+Added: The Company raised very
+Added: limited equity funds during such periods to meet some of its immediate needs, and therefore, the Company needs to raise substantial additional
+Added: funds in the upcoming periods.
+Added: The Company has faced substantial demand for capital and operating expenditures for the fiscal year 2025
+Added: that we anticipate will continue (or increase) during the 2026 fiscal year and periods thereafter as it moves toward commercial implementation
+Added: of its 3G Tech and development of JVs (including costs associated with additions of personnel to carry out the business activities of
+Added: the Company) and, therefore, is likely to continue to face, significant cash flow management issues due to limited capital resources and
+Added: working capital constraints which had only begun to be alleviated during 2024 and 2023.
+Added: As a result, the Company has faced, and continues
+Added: to face, significant cash flow management challenges due to material working capital constraints.
+Added: To partially mitigate these working
+Added: capital constraints, the Company's core senior management and some key employees and consultants have been deferring most of their cash
+Added: compensation and/or are accepting compensation in the form of securities of the Company and members of the Company's senior management
+Added: have from time-to-time made loans to the Company in the past and may do so in future periods.
The Company continues to explore sources of additional
−Removed: financing (including potential agreements with strategic partners – both financial and ag-industry) to satisfy its current and future
−Removed: operating and capital expenditure requirements as it is not currently generating any significant revenues.
−Removed: Bion’s leadership team’s
−Removed: new approach, developing a single proof-of-concept project vs multiple projects developed simultaneously, will substantially reduce the
−Removed: company’s need to raise capital.
−Removed: Further, leadership believes this approach represents a more achievable goal, which coupled with
−Removed: the addition of new leadership, including Turk Stovall to lead Bion’s beef efforts, will reinspire confidence in our own shareholders,
−Removed: as well as assure potential new strategic and institutional investors, and make it easier to raise funds.
−Removed: During the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, the
−Removed: Company received gross proceeds of approximately $1,140,000 and $4,038,000, respectively, from the sale of its debt and equity securities.
−Removed: The Company raised gross proceeds of approximately $639,000 and $4,038,000, respectively, from the sale of equity securities and warrant
−Removed: The Company paid commissions on the exercise of warrants in the amount of $20,000 and $86,000 in 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2024 the Company received proceeds of $400,000 from a convertible bridge loan but the provider of the bridge
−Removed: loan during November 2023 (and on an ongoing basis since such time) breached its contractual obligation/binding subscription agreement
−Removed: to fund an additional $1,100,000 to the Company, which breach (combined with management stresses related to the final illness and passing
−Removed: of Dominic Bassani, Bion’s then COO and former CEO, and required management transitions) has created substantial cash flow difficulties
−Removed: for the Company which are ongoing.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2024 the Company received proceeds of $125,000 from a convertible note.
+Added: financing (including potential agreements with strategic partners – both financial, renewable energy- and ag-industry) to satisfy
+Added: its current and future operating and capital expenditure requirements as it is not currently generating any significant revenues.
+Added: leadership team’s new approach, focusing on the bolt-on opportunity and developing a single proof-of-concept project vs multiple
+Added: projects developed simultaneously, will substantially reduce the company’s need to raise capital.
+Added: Further, leadership believes this
+Added: approach represents a more achievable goal that will reinspire confidence in our own shareholders, as well as assure potential new strategic
+Added: and institutional investors, and make it easier to raise funds.
Going Concern and Management’s Plans:
−Removed: The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared
−Removed: assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company is not currently generating any significant revenues.
−Removed: the Company’s anticipated revenues, if any, from existing JVs and proposed projects will not be sufficient to offset operating and
−Removed: capital costs (for Projects) for a minimum of two to five years.
−Removed: Further, there are no assurances that the Company will ultimately be
−Removed: successful in its efforts to develop and construct its Projects and market its Systems;
−Removed: but, it is certain that the Company will require
−Removed: substantial funding from external sources.
−Removed: Given the unsettled state of the current credit and capital markets for companies such as Bion,
−Removed: there is no assurance the Company will be able to raise the funds it needs on reasonable terms.
−Removed: The aggregate effect of these factors
−Removed: raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2024, a one-time, non-recurring, non-cash
−Removed: charge of $9,460,425 was incurred by the Company in connection with a write-down of the capitalized carrying value of the Initial Project
−Removed: (at Fair Oaks, Indiana) in order to conform to the applicable accounting practices, because the Initial Project was recently reclassified
−Removed: as largely a research & development facility and is located on land subject to a short term lease (as described above in Item 7, Management’s
+Added: The Company’s consolidated financial statements have
+Added: been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company is not currently
+Added: generating any significant revenues.
+Added: Further, the Company’s anticipated revenues, if any, from existing JVs and proposed projects
+Added: will not be sufficient to offset operating and capital costs (for Projects) for a minimum of two to five years.
+Added: Further, there are no
+Added: assurances that the Company will ultimately be successful in its efforts to develop and construct its Projects and market its Systems;
+Added: but it is certain that the Company will require substantial funding from external sources.
+Added: Given the unsettled state of the current credit
+Added: and capital markets for companies such as Bion, there is no assurance the Company will be able to raise the funds it needs on reasonable
+Added: The aggregate effect of these factors raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: During the fiscal year ended
+Added: June 30, 2025, the Company had a loss of $2,380,000 including $844,000 non-cash compensation expenses related to extension of warrants
+Added: During the year ended June
+Added: 30, 2024, a one-time, non-recurring, non-cash charge of $9,460,425 was incurred by the Company in connection with a write-down of the
+Added: capitalized carrying value of the Initial Project (at Fair Oaks, Indiana) because the Initial Project was recently reclassified as largely
+Added: a research & development facility and is located on land subject to a short term lease (as described below in Item 2, Management’s
Discussion and Analysis).
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for the 2024 fiscal year.
−Removed: Current liabilities were approximately $5.8 million and $1.6 million at June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively,
−Removed: the increase of approximately $4.2 million was largely due to an increase in ‘accounts payable and accrued expenses’ and debt
−Removed: moving from long term to current liabilities.
−Removed: Similarly, the Company’s cash on hand decreased from approximately $626,000 to approximately
−Removed: $52,000 over the same period.
−Removed: The Company’s extreme difficulty in obtaining needed funds during the entire 2024 fiscal year has
−Removed: continued throughout the first quarter of the current fiscal year to date.
−Removed: Going Concern and Management’s Plans, Plan
−Removed: of Operations and Outlook and ITEM 2.
−Removed: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Note 11
−Removed: Subsequent Events.
−Removed: The constraints on available resources have had, and continue to have,
−Removed: negative effects on the pace and scope of the Company’s efforts to operate and develop its business.
−Removed: The Company has had to delay
−Removed: payment of trade obligations and has had to economize in many ways that have potentially negative consequences.
−Removed: If the Company is able
−Removed: to raise needed funds during the remainder of the current fiscal year (and subsequent periods), of which there is no assurance, management
−Removed: will not need to consider deeper cuts (including additional personnel cuts) and/or curtailment of ongoing activities including research
−Removed: and development activities.
−Removed: The Company will need to obtain additional capital to fund its operations and technology development, to satisfy
−Removed: existing creditors, to develop Projects.
−Removed: The Company anticipates that it will seek to raise from $20,000,000 to $80,000,000 or more debt
−Removed: and/or equity through joint ventures, strategic partnerships and/or sale of its equity securities (common, preferred and/or hybrid) and/or
−Removed: debt (including convertible) securities, and/or through use of ‘rights’ and/or warrants (new and/or existing) and/or through
−Removed: other means during the next twelve months.
−Removed: However, as discussed above, there is no assurance, especially in light of the difficulties
−Removed: the Company has experienced in many recent years and the extremely unsettled capital markets that presently exist for small pre-revenue
−Removed: companies like us, that the Company will be able to obtain the funds that it needs to stay in business, complete its technology development
−Removed: or to successfully develop its business and Projects.
−Removed: Ultimately, in the event the Company cannot secure additional financial resources,
−Removed: or complete a strategic transaction in the longer term, the Company may need to curtail or suspend its operational plans or current initiatives,
−Removed: or potentially liquidate its business interests, and investors may lose all or part of their investment.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments
−Removed: relating to the recoverability or classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result should the
−Removed: Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The following paragraphs describe management’s plans with regard to these conditions.
+Added: The constraints on available
+Added: resources have had, and continue to have, negative effects on the pace and scope of the Company’s efforts to operate and develop
+Added: its business.
+Added: The Company has had to delay payment of trade obligations and has had to economize in many ways that have potentially negative
+Added: consequences.
+Added: If the Company is able to raise needed funds during the remainder of the current fiscal year (and subsequent periods), of
+Added: which there is no assurance, management will not need to consider deeper cuts (including additional personnel cuts) and/or curtailment
+Added: of ongoing activities including research and development activities.
+Added: The Company will need to obtain additional capital to fund its operations
+Added: and technology development, to satisfy existing creditors, and to develop Projects.
+Added: The Company anticipates that it will seek to raise
+Added: from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 or more debt and/or equity through sale of its equity securities (common, preferred and/or hybrid) and/or
+Added: debt (including convertible) securities, and/or through use of ‘rights’ and/or warrants (new and/or existing) and/or license
+Added: payments and/or through other means during the next twelve months.
+Added: Further, Bion will be required to raise $15 million (or more) to fund
+Added: its initial project, in a combination of debt financing and equity investment.
+Added: However, as discussed above, there is no assurance, especially
+Added: in light of the difficulties the Company has experienced in many recent years and the extremely unsettled capital markets that presently
+Added: exist for small pre-revenue companies like us, that the Company will be able to obtain the funds that it needs to stay in business, complete
+Added: its technology development or to successfully develop its business and Projects.
+Added: Ultimately, in the event the Company cannot secure additional
+Added: financial resources, or complete a strategic transaction in the longer term, the Company may need to curtail or suspend its operational
+Added: plans or current initiatives, or potentially liquidate its business interests, and investors may lose all or part of their investment.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated
+Added: financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability or classification of assets or the amounts and classification
+Added: of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The following paragraphs describe management’s
+Added: plans with regard to these conditions.
Management’s Plan
−Removed: To help alleviate short-term cash needs and continue current operations,
−Removed: three affiliates of the Company (Greg Schoener, Interim COO & Director;
−Removed: Turk Stovall, Director;
−Removed: Bob Weerts, Director) and two shareholders
−Removed: (one of whom is the brother of Greg Schoener) have agreed to advance to the Company, through a newly formed LLC, up to $500,000 in consideration
−Removed: of a secured convertible promissory note.
−Removed: It is anticipated that additional investors will join the LLC, and that the funds available
−Removed: to Bion will increase, although there can be no assurance they will.
−Removed: The note instrument and agreements have not been executed at this
−Removed: time because terms and other details have not been finalized yet;
−Removed: however, the group has begun advancing money to the Company.
−Removed: the date of the filing of this report, the aggregate sum of $201,564 has been advanced to the Company, together with express directions
−Removed: on what items were to be paid with such funds.
−Removed: When a final agreement is executed, it will be attached as an exhibit to a Form 8-K.
−Removed: To date, the Company has primarily raised funds through private placements
−Removed: with accredited investors, often conducted through FINRA-registered broker/dealers.
−Removed: However, the Company anticipates, moving forward,
−Removed: it will need to raise capital using a combination of financial instruments and sources, that could also include strategic and/or institutional
−Removed: investors, including family offices and private equity, brokered equity or debt offerings with both public and private investors, and
−Removed: banks and other ag lending institutions, among others, although there can be no assurance it will be successful.
−Removed: Many of these financing
−Removed: options may involve dilution, potentially substantial, for current shareholders.
−Removed: Management intends to augment its access to capital by
−Removed: adding one or more staff members (or consultants) with experience in the capital markets, as well as utilizing its current contacts and
−Removed: relationships in the capital markets.
−Removed: Bion is currently in discussions with several potential strategic partners
−Removed: in renewable energy – RNG and solar – and clean fuels, as well as reducing the carbon footprint of livestock production, especially
−Removed: Some of these candidates have expressed an interest in investing in Bion and JV projects, and management believes that Bion will
−Removed: receive an investment from such a partner (as well as from other strategic partners from other parts of the value chain), although there
−Removed: can be no assurance that it will.
−Removed: Bion is now evaluating both European and U.S.
−Removed: renewable energy/ clean fuels developers, operators, and
−Removed: investors to determine the best fit for moving forward with AD/RNG development for its own beef project(s), access to clean fuels value
−Removed: chains for its low-carbon fertilizers, animal waste treatment for others, both here and in the EU, as well as a development partner in
−Removed: industrial and municipal opportunities.
−Removed: Bion believes that such a relationship would entail a direct investment in Bion, licensing fee,
−Removed: or some other ‘up front’ financial benefit to Bion.
−Removed: To help alleviate short-term cash needs for continued
−Removed: operations, three affiliates of the Company (Greg Schoener, Interim COO & Director;
−Removed: Turk Stovall, Director;
−Removed: Bob Weerts, Director)
−Removed: and two shareholders (one of whom is the brother of Greg Schoener) have agreed to advance to the Company, through a newly formed LLC,
−Removed: up to $500,000 in consideration of a secured convertible promissory note.
−Removed: It is anticipated that others will join the LLC, although there
−Removed: can be no assurance they will.
−Removed: The note instrument and agreements have not been executed at this time because terms and other details
−Removed: have not been finalized yet;
−Removed: however, the group has begun advancing money to the Company.
−Removed: As of the date of the filing of this report,
−Removed: the aggregate sum of $201,564 has been advanced to the Company, together with express directions on what items were to be paid with such
−Removed: When a final agreement is executed, it will be attached as an exhibit to a Form 8-K.
+Added: The Company continues to explore sources of financing
+Added: to satisfy its current operating requirements and future growth needs.
+Added: The Company has faced substantial demand for capital and operating
+Added: expenditures for the fiscal year 2025 that we anticipate will increase during the 2026 fiscal year and periods thereafter as we move toward
+Added: commercial implementation of our 3G Tech and development of JVs (including costs associated with additions of personnel to carry out the
+Added: business activities of the Company).
+Added: As a result, the Company has faced, and continues to face, significant cash flow challenges due to
+Added: material working capital constraints.
+Added: To partially mitigate these working capital constraints, the Company's core senior management and
+Added: some key employees and consultants have been deferring most of their cash compensation and/or are accepting compensation in the form of
+Added: securities of the Company and members of the Company's senior management have from time-to-time made loans to the Company in the past
+Added: and may do so in future periods.
+Added: help alleviate short-term cash needs for continued operations, in August, three affiliates of the Company (Greg Schoener, Interim COO
+Added: Turk Stovall, Director (at that time);
+Added: Bob Weerts, Director) and two shareholders (one of whom is the brother of Greg
+Added: Schoener) began advancing money to Bion to cover critical payables.
+Added: They subsequently formed a loan group, BION BLG, LLC (“BLG”),
+Added: and have continued to provide short-term funding for Bion in a secured promissory note of up to $500,000.
+Added: Schoener, Weerts, and the two
+Added: non-affiliate members were also large Bion shareholders, prior to the formation of BLG.
+Added: As a group, Schoener, Stovall, and Weerts own
+Added: 60% of BLG, which has a security interest in the Company’s Intellectual Property.
+Added: The BLG note will bear interest at a rate of 7.5%
+Added: per annum and the maturity date is April 15, 2025.
+Added: As of the filing date, BLG has advanced $407,734 .
+Added: The BLG note will convert into Units (shares and/or warrants) in the Company at the terms of a later capital raise, in which Bion crosses
+Added: the threshold of $3 (three) million in aggregate capital raised (or other source of funding, and other terms as defined in the note).
+Added: If the Company is unable to complete such funding within six (6) months, it will be in default of the BLG note, which is secured by the
+Added: Company’s Intellectual Property (“IP” “Collateral”).
+Added: BLG will share the Collateral on a pro rata basis with
+Added: investors in a Note with similar terms being offered to previous Bion investors.
+Added: The BLG note and security agreements contain other terms
+Added: set forth therein and are included as exhibits to this filing.
+Added: November, the Company launched a secured promissory note offering to previous investors/shareholders (and certain others)(Shareholder
+Added: Notes) with similar terms to the BLG note.
+Added: Based on feedback from shareholders and registered representatives with which the Company has
+Added: long standing relationships, management believed at that time that sufficient capital could be raised with this group to 1) continue to
+Added: cover critical payables to maintain operations that will allow the Company to finish the engineering report and technology demonstration
+Added: at Fair Oaks, 2) move forward with pre-development work on the Stovall project, 3) continue discussions with potential strategic partners,
+Added: and 4) position ourselves for the larger offering/ funding that will be required.
+Added: As of the filing date, Bion has raised $611,000
+Added: in the Shareholder Note offerings.
+Added: Further, Bion has changed its focus from pre-development work on the
+Added: Stovall project, to an initial bolt-on project at an existing facility.
+Added: To date, the Company has primarily
+Added: raised funds through private placements with accredited investors, often conducted through FINRA-registered broker/dealers.
+Added: Company anticipates moving forward, it will need to raise capital using a combination of financial instruments and sources, that could
+Added: also include strategic and/or institutional investors, including family offices and private equity, brokered equity or debt offerings
+Added: with both public and private investors, and banks and other ag lending institutions, among others, although there can be no assurance
+Added: it will be successful.
+Added: Many of these financing options may involve dilution, potentially substantial, for current shareholders.
+Added: intends to augment its access to capital by adding one or more staff members (or consultants) with experience in the capital markets,
+Added: as well as utilizing its current contacts and relationships in the capital markets.
+Added: Bion is in discussions with several potential
+Added: strategic partners in engineering, renewable energy (biogas/RNG) and clean fuels, organic fertilizer distribution, and others involved
+Added: in reducing the environmental footprint of biogas, agriculture, and livestock production.
+Added: Bion is now evaluating a number of these as
+Added: potential development and finance partners for project opportunities.
+Added: Further, with the recent OMRI Listing for its commercial fertilizer,
+Added: the Company has initiated discussions with several large U.S.
+Added: fertilizer manufacturers and distributors that have demonstrated interest
+Added: in the product.
+Added: Bion believes that these industry relationships could entail a direct investment in Bion, licensing fee, or some other
+Added: ‘up front’ financial benefit to Bion, although there is no assurance that they will.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
−Removed: We have the following material contractual obligations
−Removed: (in addition to employment and consulting agreements with management and employees):
+Added: We have the following material contractual
+Added: obligations (in addition to employment and consulting agreements with management and employees):
The Company entered into an agreement on September
23, 2021, to lease approximately four acres of land near Fair Oaks, Indiana, for the development site of its Initial Project.
−Removed: The future minimum lease payment under noncancelable
−Removed: operating lease with terms greater than one year as of June 30, 2024:
−Removed: From July 2024 to December 2024
−Removed: Undiscounted cash flow
−Removed: Less imputed interest
−Removed: The weighted average remaining lease term and discounted
−Removed: rate related to the Company’s lease liability as of June 30, 2024 were 0.5 years and 10%, respectively.
−Removed: The Company’s lease
−Removed: discount rate is generally based on the estimates of its incremental borrowing rate as the discount rates implicit in the Company’s
−Removed: lease cannot be readily determined.
+Added: ended December 31, 2024 and there is an agreement to extend month to month at the same rate.
+Added: The Company has not made consistent lease payments
+Added: since October 16, 2023 and has made no payments since February 24, 2025.
+Added: The Company owes $106,250 in lease payments at June 30, 2025.
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
−Removed: The Company does not have any off-balance sheet arrangements
−Removed: (as that term is defined in Item 303 of Regulation S-K) that are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our
−Removed: financial condition, revenue or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.
+Added: The Company does not have any off-balance sheet
+Added: arrangements (as that term is defined in Item 303 of Regulation S-K) that are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect
+Added: on our financial condition, revenue or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
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