AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS

FOR SOCIETY

Connecting Educators Conference

October 22, 2013

Toronto, Ontario

Gord Surgeoner, Ph.D.

Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

www.oaft.org

Universities/Colleges • Conestoga College

• Trent University

• University of Guelph

Farm Associations • Dairy Farmers of Ontario

• Egg Farmers of Ontario

• Grain Farmers of Ontario

• Ontario Federation of Agriculture

• Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Assoc.

• Ontario Pork

• Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers

• Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Assoc.

Government • City of Guelph

• City of Port Colborne

Special thanks to

OMAFRA and AAFC

Industry • Advanced Micro Polymers

• Ag Energy Co-operative Ltd.

• BASF Canada Inc.

• Bayer CropScience Canada

• Bioenterprise Corporation

• BIOMAR Inc.

• BIOX Corporation

• Canadian Seed Trade Assoc.

• Dow AgroSciences

• GreenField Ethanol

• Guelph Junction Railway Co.

• IGPC Ethanol Inc.

• INAC Services Limited

• Ingredion Canada Incorporated

• Life Sciences Ontario

• MNP LLP

• Monsanto Canada Inc.

• Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited

• Polymer Distribution Inc.

• Royal Bank of Canada

• SPB Solutions Inc.

• Sevita International

• Syngenta Canada, Inc.

• WhiteCloud Innovations

Affiliates • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food

and Rural Affairs

• Ontario Ministry of Economic

Development and Innovation

Traditional agriculture

Food and feed cannibalizing

New Use

Fibres

Ethanol

Motor

Oils Diesel

Plastics

Chemicals

Cars

New Opportunities

Expand markets – don’t cannibalize

Traditional

Spheres of Activity

Food/Health

Feed Industrial

The Economist

December, 2003

Evolution

Food Freedom Day 2013

If you ate today, thank a farmer! Thursday February 14th was Food Freedom Day, the day when

the average Canadian consumer has earned enough income to

pay their individual grocery bill for the entire year.

Nottingham University

Strong international track record in developing new technologies and collaboration with industry

Past successes include MRI scanner technology (Nobel prize-winning research), novel vaccines, medical device for heart rate monitoring, nanoparticle production spin-out company, anti-microbial catheters & others

Number 1 ranking out of the top 100 UK Universities for agriculture and food sciences

Azotic Technologies have licensed the nitrogen fixing

technology for 200 crops from Nottingham University

N-Fix Nitrogen Fixation

PlantForm awarded US$1.8 million

to develop medical countermeasure

against chemical threats

Project focus is low-cost, plant-based production and purification of

butyrylcholinesterase enzyme November 20, 2012

New funding expands HIV antibody

program

The Government of Canada provides additional support to PlantForm

for its next phase of drug development August 12, 2013

Getty

Images

Adjacent greenhouses (tomatoes)

BioAmber announces biobased

succinic acid plant in Ontario,

Canada

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - BioAmber Inc., through its subsidiary

Bluewater Biochemicals has selected Sarnia, Ontario, Canada as the location for its first

North American biosuccinic acid plant. The Sarnia plant will have an initial capacity of

17,000 MT and will be commissioned in 2013. Permitting work for the plant was initiated in

June 2011. BioAmber currently produces and sells biobased succinic acid at a 3,000 MT

capacity plant in France……

….."Sarnia has tremendous potential as a sustainable chemistry cluster. The unique

combination of chemical infrastructure, skilled labor, educational facilities, competitive

transportation costs and proximity to some of Canada's richest agricultural land makes

Sarnia an excellent choice," said Mike Hartmann, Executive VP of BioAmber. "These

provincial and federal programs have put Ontario and Canada at the forefront of sustainable

development and in strong position to compete globally for foreign investment by renewable

chemical and material companies. These programs were instrumental in BioAmber's

decision to invest in Ontario," he added.

Soy-Polyol foam in automobiles

Promise with Competitive Technologies

• Price Neutral

• Improved properties over synthetic

polyol

• Adaptable with minimum

• adjustment of existing process

• 100% Polyol replacement

• possible Brookestone

Cargill, Soy Polyurethane Systems, Dow and 6 others; BASF?

Source: Dr. Mohini Sain

University of Toronto

Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing

Competitive Green

Technologies

University of Guelph vehicle

fleet

• 100% of fleet running on 98% soybean engine oil

• Hydraulics, chain saw oil

“I skate to where the

puck is going to be,

not where it’s been.”

--Wayne Gretzky,

National Hockey League Hall of Fame inductee