Bion’s patented third-generation technology was designed ...

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Bion’s patented third-generation technology was designed to dramatically 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 a pathway to true economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for at least a premium sector of the $175 billion livestock industry, the environment, and the consumer. August 19, 2021 www.biontech.com

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Bion’s patented third-generation technology was designed to dramatically 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 a pathway to true economic and environmental sustainability with ‘win-win’ benefits for at least a premium sector of the $175 billion livestock industry, the environment, and the consumer.

August 19, 2021 www.biontech.com

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Forward Looking Statements/Risk Factors

This presentation contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements regarding Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (the"Company"), which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs including,but not limited to, statements concerning the Company's operations,performance, financial condition, business strategies, and other informationand that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. The Company's actualresults of operations, most of which are beyond the Company's control, coulddiffer materially. For this purpose, any statements of expectations or revenueprojections contained in this presentation (that are not statements of historicalfact) may be deemed to be forward-looking statements.

Risk Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference include, but arenot limited to, limited operating history; uncertain nature of environmentalregulation and operations; uncertain pace and form of development of nutrient(N&P) reduction market; risks of development of first of their kind IntegratedProjects; need for substantial additional financing; competition; dependence onmanagement; and other factors. Additional information regarding the Companyand its 3G technology platform should be reviewed on the Company’s websiteat www.biontech.com. Investors are urged to also consider closely thedisclosures and risk factors in the Company’s current Form 10-K, filed with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, available at www.sec.gov.

˃ Third-generation comprehensive livestock waste treatment technology platform– First patent issued Oct 12, 2020– Optimization trials completed Feb 2021

˃ Dramatically reduces environmental impacts of large-scale production

˃ Maximizes value of resource recovery – renewable energy AND nutrients

˃ Generates new revenue sources˃ Produces verified sustainable and/or organic meat/ egg/ dairy and

fertilizer products – Verification supports blockchain accountability– USDA Process Verified Program (PVP) will certify sustainable brand

claims– First OMRI (organic) Listing for fertilizer received May 2020

Opportunity/ Tech Overview

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˃ Third Generation (3G) technology platform core optimization trials were completed in February 2021

˃ Letter of Intent with Lamb Farms, Inc, in April 2021 to install a commercial 3G system to treat the waste from the existing dairy and planned beef barns.

˃ OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) Listing application made for solid nitrogen fertilizer product in May 2021. Listing of liquid version of product received May 2020.

Recent Catalysts

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Today’s Livestock Industry

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U.S. Livestock Industry:$175B farmgate2.20 billion poultry90 million beef cattle60 million swine 9 million dairy cows

The Problem…

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1 BILLION+ tons of animal waste(at least 100X human waste)Spread on the ground...

˃ Crops are fertilized with raw manure˃ Large-scale livestock production = concentration

Environmental Impacts

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U.S. livestock industry’s environmental impacts:

Unsustainable

Environmental/public health impacts:˃ Toxic algae blooms/ dead zones˃ Contaminated groundwater˃ Greenhouse gas emissions˃ PM2.5 (particulate air pollution)˃ Odors˃ Pathogens: foodborne illnesses˃ Antibiotic resistance

Lake Erie algae bloom 2017

It’s a Global Problem

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Global Livestock$1.4T farmgate

19.60 billion poultry1.10 billion beef cattle

980 million swine264 million dairy cows

U.S. Livestock$175B farmgate2.20 billion poultry90 million beef cattle60 million swine 9 million dairy cows

Dead Zones Worldwide

1950: 502015: 500+

˃ Absent a voluntary solution, regulation is inevitable.˃ In the advocacy group crosshairs

– Enviro and conservation groups – water quality– UN Food and Agriculture Org (UN FAO) – climate change– Animal rights/ welfare

˃ Increasing heat from institutional investor groups– Growing emphasis on ESG/ sustainable investing– Ceres ($1.6T assets)– FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return - $23T)

˃ Losing consumer confidence and CUSTOMERS– Plant-based dairy/ milk substitutes carving into market share– Plant-based ground meat – Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods– Future: lab-grown meat – Memphis Meats

U.S. Livestock Industry Challenges

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What does ‘cleanup’ look like?˃ Water (nutrients), air (ammonia, carbon), pathogens˃ Cost to remediate the environmental impacts is economically

unsustainable in this low margin industry – global export is especially sensitive.

˃ New recurring revenues, premium pricing for branded products and/or subsidies are required.

˃ Improvements must be verifiable by third party.˃ Must be able to communicate improvements to the consumer.˃ Bion’s patented 3G platform supports these requirements for

large scale production of beef, dairy, poultry, swine.

U.S. Livestock Industry Solution

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˃ Joint ventures to produce sustainable and/or sustainable organic corn-fed beef/ pork– Largely new facilities– Strategic industry partners– USDA PVP certified sustainable brand– Premium segment of market– Corn fed, not grass – traditional taste and texture

˃ Retrofit/ Remediation Projects– Utility service provider– Existing livestock facilities– See Kreider Farms slides below for illustration

Two Business Models

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Traditional Crop ProductionManure fertilizer

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Sustainable and/or Sustainable OrganicCorn-fed Beef

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Sustainable Organic Corn-Fed Beef

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Bion’s 3G Treatment Platform

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AD Biogas Production

Residual Solids

Processing

Sustainable Brand

PremiumAmmonium Bicarbonate Distillation

Ecosystem Services

Payments

Biogas used as atransportation fuel

Renewable Natural Gas

RFS creditsLCFS credits

Carbon Intensity (CI)

Residual Solids

From digestate3

(minus ammonia N)

Markets− Blended/bagged

products− Fertilizer for organic

livestock feed− Feed additive− Biochar

Pure nitrogen fertilizer products

− OMRI-Listed1/ NOP-certified2

− Crystalline/ granular− Water soluble− Readily-available N− High-value

Markets− Row crops− Feed crops − Greenhouse− Hydroponic− Lawn & garden

Premium pricing for sustainable brand

− USDA PVP-certified − Verified reductions:

Nutrient/ sediment runoff Greenhouse gases PathogensWater use

Ecosystem Services Payment

Verified credits for reductions in:− Nutrients− Sediment

Can serve as qualified offsets to EPA mandates4

Process verification generates

Value/ Revenues produced

Clean WaterIrrigationHerd reuseAquifer recharge

1First OMRI-listing received May 2020 on ammonia liquid; each add’l product will require its own listing.2Will seek to include in organic plan certified through USDA National Organic Program.3Digestate is widely used in organic production.4State policies evolving

The illustrations contained in the following three slides include forward-looking statements based on management’s current reasonable business expectations. 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 assumptions, risks and uncertainties that could result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes. All slides/ documents/ links in this presentation and on Bion’s website speak as of their date and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements they may contain. Potential investors should carefully review the materials on Bion’s website in conjunction with Bion’s sec filings at www.sec.gov or www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BNET/filings.

Disclosures

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The illustration below depicts a five-year buildout of 150,000 beef cattle on feed, split 60/40 sustainable/organic. The table should be reviewed in conjunction with information contained in Bion’s Beef Opportunity at https://biontech.com/bions-beef-opportunity.

Sustainable/ Organic Beef JV Opportunity

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Financial Analysis All figures in '000s

Single 15,000 head module Conventional Organic Financing AssumptionsBion CAPEX 31,000$ 31,000$ Leverage 70%Cattle Acquisition 17,400$ 21,400$ Maturity 10 yearsTotal CAPEX 48,400$ 52,400$ Interest Rate 5% p.a.Equity Component 14,520$ 15,720$

Revenue 76,500$ 105,700$ EBITDA 12,300$ 19,800$ Annual Debt Service (4,312)$ (4,669)$ Pre-Tax Cash Flow 7,988$ 15,131$ Single Module Leveraged IRR 54% 96%

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10COMBINED SCENARIOConventional (Operating 15K head modules) 1 2 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6Organic (Operating 15K head modules) 0 0 1 3 4 4 4 4 4 4

Enterprise Level ValuationEBITDA 12,300$ 24,600$ 69,000$ 120,900$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ Bion Enterprise Value (EBITDA Multiple)

15.0 184,500$ 369,000$ 1,035,000$ 1,813,500$ 2,295,000$ 2,295,000$ 2,295,000$ 2,295,000$ 2,295,000$ 2,295,000$

Project Level ValuationAnnual CAPEX 48,400$ 48,400$ 149,200$ 153,200$ 100,800$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ Annual Equity Requirement 14,520$ 14,520$ 44,760$ 45,960$ 30,240$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$

Revenue 76,500$ 153,000$ 411,700$ 699,600$ 881,800$ 881,800$ 881,800$ 881,800$ 881,800$ 881,800$ EBITDA 12,300$ 24,600$ 69,000$ 120,900$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ 153,000$ Total Debt Service (4,312)$ (8,624)$ (21,917)$ (35,567)$ (44,548)$ (44,548)$ (44,548)$ (44,548)$ (44,548)$ (44,548)$ Pre-Tax Cash Flow 7,988$ 15,976$ 47,083$ 85,333$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$

PTCF + Equity (14,520)$ (6,532)$ (28,784)$ 1,123$ 55,093$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ 108,452$ Leveraged IRR 65%

˃ Largest livestock producer in PA− Agreement in place− 9M layers, 1,600-head dairy (4 locations)

˃ 450 tons per day (tpd) of waste− 565K gallons per day (gpd)− 29,462 lbs per day of nitrogen− 7,128 lbs per day of phosphorus

Kreider Farms Retrofit Overview

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Kreider Revenue Model

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Kreider Farms potential revenue analysis at full build-out. Revenues are dependent on organic designation of coproducts, an established credit market, and other assumptions, only some of which are noted. Anticipated results may differ materially from actual results. See risk factors and forward-looking statements notice on Slides 2, 15.

Kreider Farms Project Model5% brand prem Branding $10.0M

$4/lb N (6M# + solids) Co-products 29.0M

$3 gas/$1.65 D3 RIN RE/Credits 9.0M

$8/N credit (2.5M #) Nutrient Credits 20.0M

9M layers Total revenue $68.0M

1,600 dairy cows OpEx NDA-only

EBITDA NDA-only

CAPEX for conversion $70.0M

Debt service (75% debt @ 6% bldg-7% equip) $4.9M

Net (less taxes, dep) NDA-only

˃ SB 575 - Key Pennsylvania Legislation˃ Competitive procurement for verified nutrient reductions

– Establish a market for nutrient credits– Prime sponsor: Gene Yaw (R) Chairman, Environmental Resources and

Energy Comm. Bipartisan support.˃ Bipartisan PA legislative study demonstrated competitive

procurement – livestock waste treatment – would save PA taxpayers 90 percent of Bay compliance costs.

˃ Passed PA Senate in 2019, 33-17– Was scheduled for a vote in SG Committee 10AM, March 16, 2020. At

9AM, all sessions were canceled due to COVID.˃ Successor bill/ solution expected to move in 2021

– SB475 in Senate Env Res and Energy Comm.˃ Nutrient trading supported and recommended by US EPA, USDA

– Bion anticipates a national model

Payment for Ecosystem ServicesNutrient Credit Trading

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˃ US EPA Letter of Expectation to PA on Chesapeake Bay Strategy (Apr 2017)US EPA encourages PA to use “Public, Private Partnerships (P3) … to support affordable, performance-based, watershed-driven planning, delivery, and operation and maintenance (O&M) through the use of competitive markets and private sector capacity.”

˃ Joint US EPA – USDA announcement on nutrient control strategies (Dec 2018)“The EPA and the USDA are committed to working with states, tribes and stakeholders to identify watersheds and basins where market-based approaches can supplement traditional regulatory programs to promote meaningful reductions in excess nutrients and improved water quality.”

˃ Bipartisan legislation secures federal funding to combat algae blooms (Jan 2019)The new law reauthorizes the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2013. In it, the federal government is now authorized to make funding available for harmful algae blooms deemed “of national significance.”

˃ 2018 Farm BillProjects that use innovative approaches to leveraging the Federal investment in conservation with private financial mechanisms…the provision of performance-based payments…support for an environmental markets…

Federal PolicyNutrient Control Strategy Support

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Federal PolicyNutrient Control Strategy Support

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American Biogas Council Praises House Introduction of the GREEN Act

November 19, 2019 - WASHINGTON - The Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives has released a discussion draft of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act including several provisions that support the biogas industry. The Committee describes the bill as “a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change by using the tax code to extend and expand renewable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

EPA Announces New Water Quality Trading Policy MemorandumEPA efforts seek to modernize the agency’s water quality trading policies to leverage emerging technologies and facilitate broader adoption of market-based programs02/06/2019 News Releases

117TH CONGRESS1ST SESSION

S. 2461 A BILLTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make qualified biogas property and qualifiedmanure resource recovery property eligible for the energy credit and to permit renewable energybonds to finance qualified biogas property, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congressassembled,

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESJULY 22, 2021

Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. THUNE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act of 2021’’.

˃ 30 percent tax credit, on par with wind and solar˃ Bipartisan support˃ Stand alone bills in House and Senate; also, part of $3.5T Infrastructure Plan

Federal PolicyNutrient Control Strategy Support

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˃ Water/ nutrient crisis is worsening– EPA: one of the greatest water quality problems in the U.S. today– Toxic algae blooms, dead zones, groundwater contamination– Climate change will increase runoff

˃ New focus on air pollution: ammonia/ PM2.5, greenhouse gases

˃ Current production practices MUST change˃ Elements of the livestock industry accept their role

˃ Feds implementing policy/ mobilizing resources˃ State policies changing – credit trading/ procurement

˃ Consumer exodus (dairy alternatives, now meat alternatives)˃ 3G Tech platform ready for commercial projects (core optimization

trials completed Feb 2021)

Catalysts

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˃ Additional 3G tech patent allowances and filings (ongoing)

˃ 2021/22 policy initiatives. Expected:– PA procurement legislation adopted– Federal cost share implemented– Federal Energy ITC (30%, as in solar and wind) for biogas and

nutrient control technologies˃ Ongoing technology platform R&D/ improvement˃ Seek next round of organic ‘approval’ (App into OMRI)˃ Initiate beef demonstration project (In process)˃ Initiate ammonium bicarbonate plant growth studies (In

process – cannabis underway, corn scheduled)˃ USDA PVP application (successful w/ 2G tech)˃ Initiate first phase of Kreider Farms project – late 2021

Milestones Anticipated

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VERY Large and Untapped Market

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Global Livestock19.60 billion poultry

1.10 billion beef cattle980 million swine

264 million dairy cows

U.S. Livestock2.20 billion poultry90 million beef cattle60 million swine 9 million dairy cows

Perspective: With ~15 million cattle on feed in the U.S. at any given time, Bion’s beef opportunity model (with 150,000 head) represents approximately one percent of the U.S. market.

˃ Bion is NOT BYND, a sexy media-darling that has many hurdles to clear before ECONOMIC sustainability

˃ Disruption in the food supply chain– A plant-based substitute for animal protein– Target is ground meat market (10% of overall market)– Crowded space– ‘Nose-bleed’ valuations

˃ What about the consumer?– Consumer has demanded sustainable, NOT replacement– SHOULD we blow up the current supply chain? What about

everything BUT ground? (the other 90%)˃ Bion’s tech can provide an industry response to anti-meat

messaging and addresses a much larger market˃ Shows Street’s appetite for transformation in the food supply

chain

The BYND (and others) Phenomenon

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The livestock industry is changing. It is not ‘going to

happen’. It is happening now.

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OTC QB: BNET