Fertilizers and methods for using biotic science to feed soils
View Patent ↗Biotic fertilizers are described that build soil nutrients by accelerating the growth of topsoil microorganisms Biotic fertilizers are primarily aimed at increasing populations of cyanobacteria, formally known as blue-green algae, and like organisms that have the ability to engage in photosynthesis reand to engage in the extraction of nitrogen from the atmosphere. Methods of biotic fertilizer manufacture are presented that utilize animal waste product as well as desirable compositions obtained thereby.
1. A low temperature method of converting urea or ammonia to a higher carbon form comprising:
providing or making a mechanically disrupted feedstock of animal waste prepared by high velocity shock in air atmosphere; decreasing the pH of the feedstock by addition of an acid; adding at least one of urea and ammonia to form a mixture; allowing incubation of the mixture for at least 2 minutes to allow conversion of the at least one of urea and ammonia into a higher organic form; and drying the mixture; wherein steps before and during the incubation are carried out below 60 degrees Centigrade and the mechanically disrupted feedstock is not composted, incinerated or substantially cooked by a heat denaturing step, but shocked to substantially inactivate microorganisms and leave the microorganisms' contents substantially in a soluble form.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pH is decreased to between pH 5.8 and 6.5.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein urea is added to a final concentration of at least 5 percent by weight.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mixture is allowed to incubate for at least 5 minutes between 32 and 60 degrees Centigrade.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the animal waste is chicken feces and the animal waste makes up at least 66% by weight of the mixture.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the high velocity shock is at least 100 miles per hour velocity striking a hard object.
7. A fertilizer production method of converting urea or ammonia to a higher carbon form in fertilizer without composting, incinerating or substantially cooking feedstock comprising:
providing a a feedstock of animal waste between 20 and 80% moisture; kinetically shocking the waste sufficiently to break and thereby kill bacterial cells and other microorganisms and leave the microbial contents substantially in a soluble form, decreasing the pH of the feedstock before or after shocking by addition of an acid;
adding at least one of urea and ammonia to form a mixture; allowing incubation of the mixture for at least 2 minutes to allow conversion of the at least one of urea and ammonia into a higher organic form; and drying the mixture.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the mechanically disrupted feedstock of animal waste is prepared by subjecting the waste to kinetic shock by collision with a metal wall of at least 100 miles per hour.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the high velocity shock is about 350 miles per hour velocity striking an armored steel plate.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the feedstock is maintained below 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising the step of adding viable Mycorrhizae after drying the mixture.
12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the animal waste is chicken manure.
13. A method for making high solubility fertilizer from animal waste comprising:
supplying animal waste between 20 and 80% moisture; subjecting the waste to high velocity shock in air atmosphere without heating above 200 degrees Fahrenheit; adding acid to decrease pH to between pH 5-7;
incubating for a period of time to allow conversion of inorganic nitrogen into organic nitrogen; and drying.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the added acid is an organic acid that chelates metals.
15. The method of claim 13 , further comprising adding at least 5 minerals selected from the group consisting of potassium, sulfur, magnesium, boron, iron and molybdenum are added.
16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising the step of adding a carboxylic acid chelator in at least 10 fold stochiometric excess to the minerals in the mixture.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the chelator is citrate.
18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the high velocity shock is at least 100 miles per hour velocity striking a hard object.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the high velocity shock is about 350 miles per hour velocity striking an armored steel plate
20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the animal is a bird.