Abstract:
A substrate designed to be used as animal litter, for controlling insects, preferably flies, in which the substrate includes an absorbent substrate impregnated with at least one insect growth regulator (IGR) in a preferred determined concentration, and where the substrate is preferably impregnated with a formulation including, in addition to the growth regulator, a film-forming substance, a water insoluble particulate mineral material, an organic solvent, one or more additives and water. A method for obtaining the substrate impregnated with the formulation is also disclosed, as well as using the substrate as animal litter for controlling insects. Use of the waste resulting from the mix of the substrate with manure, after it has been used as animal litter, as organic compost for agricultural soils by subjecting it to a process of stabilization and degradation by means of biosolarisation is also disclosed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides novel phosphate-solubilizing fungal strains, compositions comprising novel phosphate-solubilizing fungal strains, and methods of using novel phosphate-solubilizing fungal strains to increase the availability of phosphate for plant uptake in soil. In some embodiments, one or more of the novel phosphate-solubilizing fungal strains is coated onto a seed.
Abstract:
Methods are provided for the treatment of livestock or poultry confinement facilities equipped with manure collection zones (e.g., a manure pit or litter), in order to reduce and mitigate the effects of gaseous ammonia within the facility. The treatment involves application of an aqueous mixture including a partial calcium salt of a maleic-itaconic copolymer and a partial ammonium salt of a maleic-itaconic copolymer. Preferably, the amount of the partial calcium salt copolymer is greater than the amount of the partial ammonium salt copolymer. The treatment methods provide prompt and lasting reductions in gaseous ammonia within the confinement facility.
Abstract:
Increasing longevity of the nitrogen content of soil through improved liquid delivery formulations of urease inhibitors and/or nitrification inhibitors designed to apply to fertilizers, especially urea and manure based fertilizers These delivery formulations provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves the storage stability of the urease inhibitors by utilizing aprotic solvents, maintain the urease inhibitors and/or nitrification inhibitors in solution to storage temperatures of at least 10° C. and provides improved application to fertilizer of urease and/or nitrification inhibitors. These delivery formulations enable safe storage, transport and subsequent application or blending with urea based or manure based fertilizers that can be applied to soil in either a liquid or granular form to provide improved nitrogen retention in the soil for uptake for plant life.
Abstract:
A sanitary waste treatment method includes the steps of: adding water to sanitary waste to form a slurry characterized by a first biochemical oxygen demand, aerating the slurry, chlorinating the slurry to produce a sterilized slurry, dechlorinating the sterilized slurry to produce a dechlorinated slurry and inoculating the dechlorinated slurry with aerobic bacteria, wherein the aerobic bacteria digest solid waste in the slurry. The sanitary waste treatment method may be utilized in agricultural or municipal settings.
Abstract:
Non-activated charcoals from living plant materials are useful as ion exchange agents for adsorbing cations from an environment, especially metal ions.
Abstract:
The invention is related to a new bacterium comprising a partial 16S rDNA nucleic acid sequence having more than 85% sequence identity to the sequence presented as SEQ ID NO:1, or the complement thereof and a consortium of micro-organisms improving manure or soil.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及一种新的细菌,其包含与SEQ ID NO:1所示的序列具有超过85%的序列同一性的部分16S rDNA核酸序列或其补体,以及改善粪便或土壤的微生物群。
Abstract:
The method for preserving the initial fermentable potential of an organic substrate over time, said potential being represented by the methanogenic potential of the biomass, or BMP, of the organic substrate, comprises at least the following steps: a) determining the moisture content (HM) of the organic substrate (2) collected (1), b) comparing (8) the determined moisture content (HM) to a predefined moisture level (HD) of between 0% and 40%, c) storing, in conditions limiting any activity of the microorganisms present in the substrate, and limiting any variation in the moisture level (HM), only the organic substrate (2) of which the moisture content (HM) determined in step a) corresponds to the predefined moisture content (HD), d) if necessary, during steps a) and c), taking measurements of the methanogenic potential of the biomass, e) comparing, if necessary, the measurements of the methanogenic potential of the biomass obtained during step c) to that of step a) and f) adapting the storage conditions to keep the moisture content (HM) of the organic substrate (2) collected (1) at a value that is equal, within 5%, to that of the predefined moisture content (HD). The invention also concerns a facility for implementing the method.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to improving the efficacy of man-made and/or natural organic-based animal manure fertilizers by administration of an organic solvent formula containing polyorganic acids and/or their salts. The formulation liberates nutrient(s) that are normally bound in the soil as insoluble salts and complexes. These delivery formulations also provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves diffusion of polyorganic acids to the granule fertilizer. These delivery formulations enable safe storage, transport and subsequent application or blending with solid or liquid fertilizers. The combined formulation and fertilizer can be applied to soil to provide improved efficacy of fertilizer by liberating nutrients bound in the soil for uptake by plant life.
Abstract:
A process of preparing a microbe digested liquid plant nutrient containing metabolites, amino acids and polypeptides, comprising the steps of partial composting of animal effluent solids; adding the partially composted animal effluent to a vessel containing water and held in suspension; the aqueous dispersion is thoroughly aerated for up to 4 days. Solids and liquids are subsequently removed from the metabolic reactor, separated and used as plant nutrients.