Improved Manure-based Systems as Soil Amendments or as Potting Mixes
- Detailed Technology Description
- The invention provides a novel method to make plantpropagation media from - among others - a screw pressed, non-composted, dried manure.The resulting media offer improved and effective cellular structure, water-holdingcapacity, and aeration; and, present efficient levels of salt and solublenutrients, eliminating the potential for plant toxicity or burning.
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US patent No. 9,206,088
- *Abstract
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Cornell inventor hasdeveloped methods for economical screw pressed, non-composted, dried manure.The resulting product does not contain high levels of salts (providing lowconductivity) or soluble nutrients, thereby eliminating the issue of planttoxicity or burning. It also allows fabrication of a product that is free ofpathogenic microbes, is very light, making handling easy, and is a slow releasefertilizer.
Combined withbeneficial microbes, the resulting product can improve plant health and increaseplant nutrient uptake, and nitrogen uptake; thus, enhanced resistance toabiotic stresses such as drought, temperature, high light and other factors.
Potential Applications
For use in various manure-based systems (as pottingmixes or as a sheet or pad):
- Supporting media for use in potting mixes for home growers
- Mixes fortified with beneficial microbes for greenhouse plantproducers.
Advantages
- Medium that is dust-weed, odor- and pathogen-free
- Medium that increases plant performance
- More porous product that provides greater moisture level
- Better level of renewability than peat moss
- Can be used as pad for erosion control
- Combined with beneficial microbes, provides resistance tobiotic (plant pathogen) and abiotic (drought) stress.
- *Licensing
- Jeffrey C. Fearnjcf55@cornell.edu607-254-4502
- Country/Region
- USA
