Bioactive nutrient fortified fertilizers and related methods

摘要

A fertilizer and method of making a fertilizer that include bioactivated nutrients derived from immobile/less mobile elements. The immobile/less elements are made available to plants by the action of element mobilizing microorganisms, which are isolated, cultured, and combined with organic material and sources of the immobile element.

主权项

1. A method of producing bioactive nutrient fortified fertilizer comprising the steps of:
providing a fertilizer; providing a material having at least 60% of a target nutrient element; preparing bioaugmented organic matter by:
preparing organic matter;isolating element mobilizing microorganisms capable of mobilizing the target nutrient element;growing the element mobilizing microorganisms to prepare a culture;inoculating the organic matter with a portion of the culture; andincubating the inoculated organic matter to generate the bioaugmented organic matter having a predetermined population of the element mobilizing microorganisms; preparing bioactive nutrient from the bioaugmented organic matter and the material having the target nutrient element; and coating the fertilizer with the bioactive nutrient to form bioactive nutrient fortified fertilizer.