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• New York, NY, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, announced today that Chris Cook will join Bion’s Advisory Group, where he will provide his expertise on agronomy, crop production, and fertilizers.
• Chris brings almost 30 years of experience in production agronomy to Bion, the last decade in leadership roles with Syngenta, focused on business strategy, profitable sales growth, stakeholder relations and business development.
• Syngenta AG, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is an agricultural science and technology provider, in particular seeds, crop protection products, biologicals, and digital agricultural solutions.
• Chris Cook said, “Bion’s technology platform and strategic partner approach can help bring real sustainability to the livestock industry.

• NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A beef producer in Arkansas has taken home one of the top awards for its steaks at the 2023 World Steak Challenge .
• The World Steak Challenge gives steak producers from across the globe a unique opportunity to benchmark product quality, breed credentials, and processing standards on an international stage.
• Creekstone Farms , the beef supplier that has been raising cattle the right way since 1995, took home the coveted title of North America's Best Steak for its Ribeye Wet-Aged Steak at the awards ceremony.
• Australian producer Jack's Creek took home the accolade for its grain-fed wagyu black angus cross sirloin, which was also named the World's Best Sirloin and World's Best Grain-Fed Steak, as well as Oceanian's Best Steak.

• The land includes more than 7,700 acres of pasture and more than 2,000 cultivated acres, which could easily be doubled.
• Additionally, changing demographics in the region mean more acres in the area will be for sale in the near future, making the area ripe for big agriculture and significant expansion of the property entirely possible.
• With excellent husbandry and attention to detail, The Big Spread will be able to turn out numbers like these year over year.
• The property may be viewed by interested registered bidders by contacting [email protected] for an appointment.

• Looking in more detail reveals that how and where the beef is farmed has a huge effect on its water footprint.
• Using large amounts of water to produce beef has been driving water scarcity in the western US, among other places.
• Consuming blue water to produce food depletes these water sources, leaving less for people’s homes, industry and maintaining a healthy environment.
• We should concentrate on the blue water consumed instead, and the amount of blue water needed to produce a serving of beef is much less than the 15,000 litres quoted above.

What’s the beef with blue water?

• The amount of blue water it takes to get the meat on your plate depends on the animal’s diet and the system that produced it.
• This is relatively low, because most beef consumed in the UK is fed on rain-fed grass and crops.
• This is blue water that has been diverted from rivers and aquifers.
• Producing a serving (375g) of English topside consumes 33 litres of blue water, 96% of which goes towards feeding and raising the animal.

It’s not just water

• But there are lots of other things to consider for a sustainable and healthy diet: water scarcity is just one of the many impacts of producing beef.
• To make informed choices about the impact of beef on the world’s water, you need to know where the meat was produced.
• You would also need to know what the animal was fed, whether the feed was irrigated, where the water came from and how scarce water is in that region.
• At that point, you have to consider how to trade off water use with other environmental and social consequences.