my evil twin
3年前
"Walmart recently announced an equity steak" in Sustainable Beef, LLC. Izzat what you were getting at, Bion's project will soon feed 45,000 head of Angus beef to WMT. I forgot how often finished cattle go to market from this or that feedlot.
About Olson Farms/TD Angus: Olson Farms, Inc. is a fifth-generation family owned and operated farming and custom cattle feeding business that currently feeds approximately 50,000 cattle at the southern edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. Olson Farms/TD Angus is a founding member of Sustainable Beef, LLC, a rancher-owned packing plant being developed to process 1,500 head per day near North Platte, NE. Sustainable Beef, LLC, and Walmart recently announced Walmart’s equity investment in Sustainable Beef as “part of a broader strategic partnership to source top-quality angus beef from Sustainable Beef LLC’s new beef processing facility.”
gotpermit
3年前
Bion and Olson Farms/TD Angus Announce Nebraska Sustainable Beef Practices Project
January 9, 2023. New York, NY and North Platte, NE. Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a leader in the development of livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, and Olson Farms/TD Angus announced a letter of intent to develop a 45,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation near North Platte, Nebraska.
The project will consist of three of Bion’s 15,000-head modules that will include barns with solar panels, manure collection and conditioning, biogas recovery and upgrading, ammonia capture and production of organic fertilizer products, and clean water recovery. All processes and performance will be third-party verified, USDA-certified, and recorded on blockchain, that will support a transparent and sustainable-branded premium product, with dramatic reductions in impacts to air, water, and soil.
Bion and Olson Farms/TD Angus will work together to create a definitive Joint Venture in early 2023, with construction anticipated to commence in the second half 2023. That timeline is expected to produce initial beef and coproduct revenues by the end of 2024 that will ramp up quickly in 2025 to up to 135,000 head of annual production.
Trey Wasserburger, Olson Farms/TD Angus’ partner, stated, “We are excited to make this Bion project a reality. It’s a perfect fit for our ‘conception to consumer’ model, where TD Angus bulls sire commercial calves at ranches all over the country. Those calves are brought back and fed at our family-owned feedyard and, beginning in 2024, harvested in our local producer-owned packing plant. Until now, beef sustainability has always been a proclamation. We look forward to supplying beef that is truly sustainable, for producers and the environment alike, and that have the pedigree and production history to verify it.”
Bill O’Neill, Bion’s CEO, said “We found a great partner in Olson Farms/TD Angus. We are inspired by Kirk Olson’s and Trey’s vision to produce cattle that are better for the consumer, better for the planet, and better for the producer. That’s a perfect complement to our own vision and Bion’s mission. We really look forward to working together with them as we roll out our technology and business platform and demonstrate what truly sustainable beef really is.”
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About Olson Farms/TD Angus: Olson Farms, Inc. is a fifth-generation family owned and operated farming and custom cattle feeding business that currently feeds approximately 50,000 cattle at the southern edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. Olson Farms/TD Angus is a founding member of Sustainable Beef, LLC, a rancher-owned packing plant being developed to process 1,500 head per day near North Platte, NE. Sustainable Beef, LLC, and Walmart recently announced Walmart’s equity investment in Sustainable Beef as “part of a broader strategic partnership to source top-quality angus beef from Sustainable Beef LLC’s new beef processing facility.”
About Bion: Bion’s patented third generation technology (Gen3Tech) was designed to largely mitigate the environmental impacts of large-scale livestock production, increase its resource efficiencies, and deliver a USDA-certified sustainable product to the consumer. The platform simultaneously prevents pollution to air, water, and soil, while recovering high-value organic fertilizer coproducts and renewable energy that increase revenues. Bion’s Gen3Tech platform can create a pathway to true economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for a premium sector of the $175 billion U.S. livestock industry and the consumer. For more information, see Bion’s website at https://bionenviro.com.
This material includes forward-looking statements based on management's current reasonable business expectations. In this document, the words ‘will’, ‘look forward (to)’, and similar expressions identify certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made in reliance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Section 27A of the Securities act of 1933, as amended. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes.
Contact Information:
Craig Scott
SVP, Director of Communications
(406) 281-8178 direct
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4年前
Inflation Reduction Act to Provide Substantial Tax Incentives for Bion Projects
August 16, 2022. New York. New York. Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology that dramatically reduces environmental impacts and recovers valuable resources, will be positively impacted by the federal investment tax credits (ITC’s) contained in the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Under the new biogas tax credit, the anaerobic digesters (AD) used by Bion’s platform to produce methane from the waste, as well as the cleaning and conditioning equipment used to upgrade the biogas to pipeline-quality renewable natural gas, will be eligible for the 30% Investment Tax Credit (ITC). In addition, the bill provides ITCs for solar installations.
The solar tax credits in the Act substantially improve the economics of incorporating solar energy production into Bion’s sustainable beef projects. Each 15,000-head beef module, such as those in the recently announced Ribbonwire LOI, will be comprised of barns with about 450,000 square feet (10.3 acres) of available roof space. Adding solar will increase module capex from approximately $43 million to $53 million, before the tax credit. Besides further reducing the carbon footprint of its sustainable beef, Bion believes that implementing its own solar energy production capacity in appropriate locations will provide operational flexibility and a hedge against potentially higher energy costs in the future.
The combined AD and solar costs represent approximately 45 percent of the total project capex of approximately $53 million, so the ITC will effectively reduce costs by $7.2 million per project. In addition, Bion believes the tax credit may also apply to investment in the specialized barns and manure collection system needed to handle the waste and prepare it for processing once regulations are promulgated clarifying the provisions. If so, that would increase the portion of the combined capex benefitting from the Act to approximately 80 percent of total capex, reducing project costs by $12.7 million.
The Act also simplifies the procedure for project owners to monetize the tax credits. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "The law is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build critical infrastructure, to protect communities from wildfire and extreme heat and to drive climate-smart agriculture and renewable energy initiatives nationwide."
Bill O’Neill, Bion’s CEO, said, “The IRA’s climate provisions are a big win for the environment, livestock agriculture, and the consumer. The livestock industry is faced with some very real and fundamental challenges, especially beef. Those same challenges also represent transformational opportunities to improve outcomes in all aspects of the beef supply chain: producers, consumers, animal welfare, and environmental and economic sustainability. We very much look forward to embracing that challenge and leading the transition to truly sustainable beef production.”
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About Bion: Bion’s patented third generation technology was designed to largely mitigate the environmental impacts of large-scale livestock production and deliver a USDA-certified sustainable product to the consumer. The platform simultaneously recovers high-value environmentally friendly fertilizer coproducts and renewable energy that increase revenues. Bion’s 3G Tech platform can create a pathway to economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for at least a premium sector of the $175 billion U.S. livestock industry and the consumer. For more information, see Bion’s website at https://bionenviro.com/.
This material includes forward-looking statements based on management's current reasonable business expectations. In this document, the words ‘will’, ‘would’, ‘may’, ‘believe(s)’, and similar expressions identify certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made in reliance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Section 27A of the Securities act of 1933, as amended. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes.
Contact Information:
Craig Scott
SVP, Director of Communications
303-898-4945 direct
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4年前
Bion Announces Sustainable Beef Facility with Ribbonwire Ranch
Bion’s New Technology Will Make Beef Sustainable and Profitable for Cattle Feeders & Ranchers
July 25, 2022. New York. New York. Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology that dramatically reduces environmental impacts and recovers valuable resources, announced a letter of intent with Ribbonwire Ranch to build a 15,000 head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation in Dalhart, Texas. The facility will include innovative barn systems, anaerobic digesters and Bion’s cutting edge waste treatment technology.
Bion and Ribbonwire will work together to create a definitive Joint Venture this Fall, allowing plans to move forward to commence construction of the Dalhart sustainable beef facility during 2023. The LOI contains a provision to allow expansion of the project to four phases, representing 60,000 head capacity or annual production of 180,000 head. Bion expects formal agreements with foodservice and retail customers over the next few months.
The Dalhart facility will be developed to produce blockchain-verified sustainable beef, reduce the stress on cattle caused by extreme weather and temperatures, while remediating the environmental impacts associated with cattle Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Bion’s patented technology will refine the waste stream into valuable coproducts that include clean water, renewable natural gas (RNG), and organic fertilizer products. The revenues generated from these new product lines will transform a cattle feeder from a marginally profitable business into a lucrative one.
Chad Schoonover co-founder of Ribbonwire Ranch said “we are excited to be partnered with Bion for this initial system. This could change the industry. This new approach allows us to capture what has otherwise been lost, while still providing a humane environment that doesn’t pollute the air, water or land.” Doug Lathem, co-founder of Ribbonwire, said “I am proud that we are working on a better way to feed cattle, one that will allow our kids and grandchildren to live and work in this area for generations to come.”
Bill O’Neill, Bion’s CEO, expressed his appreciation to Ribbonwire for recognizing this opportunity and wanting to be part of it. “We are fortunate to be working with a forward-thinker like Ribbonwire Ranch. We realize that this announcement is just a first step in making sustainable beef a reality. However, it is an important step to giving the consumer the sustainable beef they want and helping cattle feeders and producers create more value for their cattle. And equally important is the fact we are keeping the waste stream from polluting the air, land, and water, and verifying those improvements in the process.”
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About Ribbonwire Ranch: Ribbonwire is a cattle ranch in the Texas panhandle that operates on approximately 40,000 acres of grazing lands that is certified organic; its affiliated entity, Lathem Farms, operates +/- 10,000 acres of farmland, of which approximately 70% is certified organic. It is considered the largest organic cow/calf operation in the State of Texas. The principals of Ribbonwire and Lathem have over 50 years of combined knowledge and experience growing feed and producing organic cattle.
About Bion: Bion’s patented third generation technology was designed to largely mitigate the environmental impacts of large-scale livestock production and deliver a USDA-certified sustainable product to the consumer. The platform simultaneously recovers high-value environmentally friendly fertilizer coproducts and renewable energy that increase revenues. Bion’s 3G Tech platform can create a pathway to economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for at least a premium sector of the $175 billion U.S. livestock industry and the consumer. For more information, see Bion’s website at bionenviro.com.
This material includes forward-looking statements based on management's current reasonable business expectations. In this document, the words ‘intent’, ‘expect’, ‘can’, ‘will’, and similar expressions identify certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made in reliance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Section 27A of the Securities act of 1933, as amended. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes.
Contact Information:
Craig Scott
SVP, Director of Communications
303-898-4945 direct
my evil twin
4年前
EPA policy statement seems encouraging
News Releases: Headquarters | Water (OW)
EPA Announces Strategy to Protect Water Quality by Accelerating Nutrient Pollution Reductions
April 5, 2022
EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov)
WASHINGTON (Apr 5, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water, Radhika Fox, released a new policy memorandum on Accelerating Nutrient Pollution Reductions in the Nation’s Waters. This memo reaffirms EPA’s commitment to working with federal agencies, state co-regulators, Tribes, water stakeholders, and the agricultural community to advance progress in reducing excess nutrients in our nation’s waters. (BION is in the ag community?)
“Nutrient pollution is one of America's most widespread, costly, and challenging environmental problems,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox. “At the same time, promising innovations, creative partnerships, holistic One Water solutions, and unprecedented opportunities to invest in clean and safe water through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (What is the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law?) have the potential to rapidly accelerate progress on nutrient pollution. Our nutrients memo is a call for scaling up the innovative approaches being used by farmers, ranchers, water agencies, local municipalities, industry, and communities to make progress.”
In the memo issued today, EPA commits to deepening existing partnerships and fostering new collaboratives with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), states, Tribes, territories, agriculture, industry, and the broader water sector. The agency will support innovation and pursue science-based and data-driven strategies to reduce excess nutrients in our nation’s waters. Critically, EPA will also provide technical assistance and other support to help states, Tribes, and territories scale effective nutrient loss reduction strategies. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also provides dedicated resources to accelerate efforts, such as the work happening through the Gulf Hypoxia Taskforce on state nutrient reduction strategies. EPA will also continue to evolve and implement the Clean Water Act regulatory framework to holistically address nutrient pollution.
“Through voluntary, incentive-based conservation programs, USDA helps agricultural producers improve the timing and application method of nutrients, which supports food and fiber production while also reducing the impacts on the environment,” said Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie. “USDA is proud to partner with EPA, farmers, ranchers and others to reduce excess nutrients in America’s waters. Effective nutrient management not only improves plant health and productivity, but also reduces excess nutrients in surface and ground water as well as emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.”
“In Wisconsin, we are dedicated to ensuring everyone has access to clean, safe water. Nitrates in our drinking water and other nutrient pollution impacts Wisconsin residents every day,” said Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Preston Cole. “Wisconsin welcomes EPA’s commitment to partnering with states and with agriculture to tackle the challenge of nutrient pollution. We also appreciate the leverage that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law offers to address nutrient pollution from a variety of sources. The strategies outlined in EPA’s nutrients memo will help all of us make progress to protect public health and our Nation’s waters.”
Additionally, under this policy memo, EPA will prioritize nutrient pollution reduction, treatment, and mitigation activities that help protect public health and the environment in our most vulnerable communities. Disadvantaged communities across the country disproportionately bear the brunt of environmental impacts from nutrient pollution and lack the resources to address these issues on their own.
View EPA’s memo at: https://www.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data/2022-epa-nutrient-reduction-memorandum.
Learn more about EPA’s efforts to address excess nutrients at: https://www.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data.
Background
Nutrient pollution is a continuing and growing challenge with profound implications for public health, water quality, and the economy. In a changing climate, the complexity and severity of the problem is increasing. Nutrients are the most widespread stressor impacting rivers and streams. Fifty eight percent of the nation’s rivers and streams and 45% of our lakes have excess levels of phosphorus. About two-thirds of the nation's coastal areas and more than one-third of the nation's estuaries are impaired by nutrients.
my evil twin
4年前
United States to Ban Real Meat
by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
April 01, 2022
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/04/01/raw-meat-sales.aspx
Aw shucks, FDA says no more meat, might as well get out while we can.
Evidence that The Great Reset is rapidly approaching can be seen in the recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban real meat, and if history is any indication, the same decision may be taken by other countries as well. The U.S. ban is slated to take effect April 1, 2024
The decision comes on the heels of repeated public appeals to the Western world by Bill Gates to stop eating real meat as a climate control effort
According to the FDA, natural beef production is a primary culprit of climate change. University of California researchers have measured the amount of methane emitted by the average cow, concluding cattle “are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide”
Each year, a single cow produces about 220 pounds of methane, and methane from cattle is 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide
Livestock raised in massive industrial farming arrangements, aptly called “confined animal feeding operations” (CAFOs), have also been identified as a source of foodborne illness, and is yet another reason why the FDA has decided to ban real meat in favor of synthetic beef
gotpermit
4年前
Bills go to Approps to be 'scored' to determine their impact (negative, neutral, positive) on the budget. I don't have an answer to the second part of the question.
Once it has been scored, the bill will likely be introduced on the Senate floor for a vote.
The Clean Water Procurement Program, which will fund a nutrient credit program, is part of SB832. The CWPP is essentially the same as SB575, but 'accomplishments' (if you are referring to 575 already passing in the Senate), do not carry over to the new session.
SB832 will have to pass both in the Senate and House.
The noteworthy part of SB832, from a Bion shareholder's perspective, is that the bill combines the CWPP, which was opposed by the entrenched interests of the status quo, with those same entrenched interests' legislation to fund riparian buffers, cover crops, and other conservation practices. This will certainly change the complexion of that opposition to one of support, unless they intend to bite off their nose to spite their face.
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5年前
Pennsylvania Senate Bill 832 Referred to Appropriations Committee
November 16, 2021. New York. New York. Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology that largely mitigates environmental impacts and recovers high-value coproducts, announced that Pennsylvania Senate Bill 832 received its second consideration in the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee and was referred in a unanimous vote to Appropriations last week.
Section 3306 of the Bill will establish the Pennsylvania Clean Water Procurement Program, which “shall provide for the purchase of a verified nutrient or sediment reduction through a competitive bidding process…” that will dramatically lower costs to Pennsylvania and its taxpayers to meet the Chesapeake Bay mandates. Funding for the program may be provided through a number of sources, including “Federal money appropriated or authorized for purposes of the program”, and is expected to be at least $25 million for fiscal year 2021-2022.
The Clean Water Procurement Program, as part of SB 832, contains most of the key provisions of SB 575, a bipartisan bill that was introduced in June 2019 to provide a nutrient credit procurement program. SB 575 was approved in the Senate by a vote of 33-17 and was calendared for a hearing in the House State Government Committee on March 16, 2020, the day legislative activities were canceled due to the pandemic.
Craig Scott, Bion’s director of communications, stated, “After a year and a half of pandemic-related uncertainty and changes, we are very encouraged to see SB 832 moving forward with key provisions of SB 575 that will establish a nutrient credit trading program in Pennsylvania. What hasn’t changed is the bipartisan legislative that found that a competitive procurement program could save the State’s taxpayers as much as 90 percent of their looming multi-billion-dollar Chesapeake Bay compliance costs. Perhaps, with additional funding available through the federal infrastructure bill, high-impact projects like Kreider Farms will move forward and provide low-cost solutions that can speed the recovery of the Bay, mitigate PA’s own surface and groundwater problems, and provide relief for the state’s taxpayers.”
SB 832’s full text and sponsors can be reviewed on the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s website at https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=832.
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About Bion: Bion’s patented third generation (3G) technology was designed to substantially reduce the environmental impacts of large-scale livestock production and deliver a USDA-certified sustainable product to the consumer. The platform simultaneously recovers high-value coproducts and renewable energy that increase revenues. Bion’s 3G tech platform can provide low-cost high-impact solutions to the air and water quality issues related to livestock production, while creating a pathway to economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for at least a premium sector of the $175 billion U.S. livestock industry and the consumer. For more information, see Bion’s website, www.bionenviro.com.
This material includes forward-looking statements based on management's current reasonable business expectations. In this document, the words ‘will’, ‘anticipate’, believe’, ‘potential’, and similar expressions identify certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made in reliance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Section 27A of the Securities act of 1933, as amended. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes.
Contact Information:
Craig Scott
Director of Communications
303-843-6191 direct
cscott@bionenviro.com
gotpermit
5年前
ET, you are correct in your assumption that Bion's (or others') advanced waste treatment technology cannot be used to treat the waste from free-range livestock. Effective nutrient and greenhouse gas control requires continuous collection and prompt treatment of the waste. Todays concentrated animal feeding operations - CAFOs - have a bad reputation, deservedly so. But while it may be counterintuitive, a CLEAN CAFO/ feedlot, equipped with effective waste treatment and resource recovery like Bion's third generation platform, where inputs (think feed additives to reduce enteric methane) can be controlled, and that shortens the production cycle (vs free-range) - is more environmentally friendly than a comparable number (or weight) of grass-fed animals scattered all across the landscape, with no way to mitigate runoff or emissions. That clean CAFO can also produce a truly and verifiably sustainable meat product at a price that is both affordable to the consumer and provides economic sustainability to the producer. Everybody wins.
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