NEF Open Day

Demonstration of leading technology from NEF for establishment of fuel, feed and fiber crops using CEEDS™ technology.
19th September 2013 – For farmers, end users and project developers requiring feedstock. A first opportunity to see the solution for utilizing the highest yielding crops for your project. Low cost precision establishment of Napier Grass, Miscanthus, Arundo donax and Sugarcane. Demonstration of breeding and establishment through to commercial use all on one site; showing 6MW biomass heating system, large scale dedicated energy crop field production, 50,000 tonne cubing facility, bio composite compounding, and nursery mulch/animal bedding processing, etc.

Agenda and registration 19th September 2013, Leamington Ontario


10.30 Check-in

11.00 NEF CEEDS TM field trials of established crops

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Site tour (1-3pm)

- NEF Energy crop breeding

- NEF Commercial scale biomass production with machinery

- NEF Biomass boiler 6MW fuelled from energy crop

- NEF Bio processing facility – fuel and bio plastic production

To attend pre-registration is required for catering please email sales@newenergyfarms.com or call 519 326 7293. Registration deadline is September 6th, 2013. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know prior to the event. There will be transportation arranged to tour around the different fields and facilities for demonstration.

 

 

Accommodations:

Howard Johnson – Right beside NEF Offices – 1-800-340-9841 201 Erie St. N Leamington, ON N8H 3A5 www.howardjohnsonleamington.com

Comfort Inn – 2.7 KM from NEF Offices – 519-326-9071 279 Erie St S Leamington, ON N8H 3C4 http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-leamington-canada-CN276

Caesars Windsor – 50 KM from NEF Offices – Close to Windsor and Detroit Airport 1-800-991-8888
377 Riverside Dr. E Windsor, ON N9A 7H7
www.caesarswindsor.com

Hilton Windsor – 50 KM from NEF Offices – Close to Windsor and Detroit Airport 519-973-5555
277 Riverside Dr. E Windsor, ON N9A 5K4

http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/ontario/hilton-windsor-WINHIHF/index.html
*Various other hotels located within Windsor and area.
** Visit www.leamington.ca for Leamington and area attractions

About Us:

CEEDSTM

(Crop, Expansion, Encapsulation and Delivery System), developed by NEF, is an ‘artificial seed’ technology for use with feedstock crops such as napier grass, sugar cane, energy cane, Arundo donax and Miscanthus. These crops are amongst the highest yielding feedstock crops available, but typically cannot be established using conventional seed routes. They have always been established using standard vegetative propagation, which is difficult to scale up and only under very specific conditions can be very large scale, such as sugar cane. CEEDSTM technology is applicable to all energy grass crops supplied by NEF, with wider applications for other vegetatively propagated crops such as sugar cane, where it can be considerably cheaper and more convenient. CEEDSTM planting units are encapsulated and coated pre-grown vegetative tissue, in a soilless medium, greenhouse grown for maximum health. Each planting unit is about the size of a wine cork. They can be planted without hand labor at conventional drill rates, with either NEF equipment designed to establish in conventional, min till or no till situations or some existing on-farm planting equipment.

About NEF  
New Energy Farms (NEF) is a feedstock development and supply company for large-scale industries such as energy, sugar, animal feed and fiber. These feedstocks are supplied from perennial crops (mainly grasses), which are amongst the highest yielding crops per acre. The crops produce high yields of quality feedstock at a low financial and energy cost, with a strong environmental profile. The raw material from NEF established plantations can be processed by end users into products such as biofuels, or commodity products such as sugar. For these end markets feedstock cost is a significant if not majority component of the end product cost. NEF have 18 years commercial and technical experience in this market, and have developed technology required by customers, which is exclusive to NEF and overcomes barriers that have previously made scale up impractical.

Contact

US/Canada/Other Regions

209 Erie Street North

Leamington, ON N8H 3A5

519-326-7293

sales@newenergyfarms.com

EU

2a The Parade Mews

Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1NE

United Kingdom

44 1672 513425

NEF Meets IFAJ

New Energy Farms was fortunate enough to be a stop on the 2011 IFAJ Congress tour.

 ( @ the Miscanthus Field )

We had a fantastic morning speaking with IFAJ about miscanthus and our farming operations. It is always nice spending time with other agriculture enthusiasts.

We took IFAJ to our miscanthus farming operations, bioprocessing facility and greenhouses. Explained to them  our future directions and how we are engaged into the local bio economy.

(Bioprocessing facility - Inside)

  (Bioprocessing facility - Outside- the facility with its unique structure features a  roof top 280 KW  PV Solar   system delivering renewable power into the Ontario marketplace)

Thank you to all the wonderful people at IFAJ for giving us the opportunity to speak to you and allowing us to be a part of your 2011 tour. You are the voices of agriculture and the worlds eyes to what we do.

Dean Tiessen
New Energy Farms



Newly built 30 thousand ft2 facility that will process over 100 thousand tonnes of locally grown dedicated biomass crops into energy and  consumer products.

Policy Policy Policy!

Does new policy help or hurt a new industry??

In many cases for every reaction there is a reaction. In the case of the Province of Ontario and their PV solar incentives the reaction was very positive, too positive. For a small scale producer of solar power getting 80 cents a KW will cause a positive reaction. This reaction was countered by the Ontario Power Authority to change the incentives.
If there were no incentives in PV solar in Ontario there would be no projects, Ontario is not the best spot in the world for PV solar and our power rates are too cheap.
With this said the field that I am invested in is Biomass. Biomass does not have strong incentives, in fact none in some energy sources like heat. How will the Province of Ontario react in the future, will other systems in place that are competitive get a opportunity or will this solar play have a hangover affect that will hurt other industries?
Biomass today can compete with natural gas, propane and heating oil as it relates to heat. Why would not a government help develop long term economic solutions? A small insentive would go

Growing Your Own Energy

Pyramid Farms is a greenhouse vegetable farm in Ontario Canada. After two generations of chasing the cheapest fuel to heat our greenhouse (coal to oil to nat gas to wood biomass) we are now growing our own fuel. We use 7000 Gj of energy per acre per year which equates to 35-40 acres of land needed to heat one acre of greenhouse. This may sound crazy but there were years that we paid as much as 14$ per Gj for natural gas equaling $100,000.00 /acre/year. I do not know of may crops on 35 acres gross 100 thousand dollars.
Today our heating costs (excluding land opportunity costs) are appox 15 to 20 thousand dollars per acre/year. With the land opporunity cost factored in we are still heating our greenhouses for less than the current cheap natural gas price (at a 10 year low). If a strong carbon policy is put into place we could be getting paid to heat our greenhouses. But for now we made a green solution economical. This is not just a one year solution, what is more important than the current savings is that this crop grows for decades with little to no inputs. We now have a multidecade line of site on our energy needs. In the greenhouse veg industry in Canada heating represents as much as 30-40% of our operating costs. We are now more profitable and stronger for the future.

We have since created New Energy Farms (www.newenergyfarms.com) that facilitates the development of dedicated feedstock crops like miscanthus for end users like myself or others that may have need for long term feedstock supplies