John

We are making the product ourselves. We are using biology from either manure, paunch material, lactobacillus or native microbes to anaerobically chelate the various minerals.

The technique has come from the Mashumus group in Costa Rica.

Once the biology has been bred up to high numbers the minerals, eg zinc sulphate, is added with more feed stuffs and things like basalt fines, soft rock phosphate, DE, sea minerals and locked up for at least 30 days. In effect it may end up a zinc fertiliser, but it also has the the rest of the periodic table, plus biology, behind it.

It ends up as a very plant friendly, available product. We use them both as foliar or through the irrigation.

We do all the different minerals and then put them together in the desired combinations as and when required.

We are even doing this with nitrogen. The theory is that any N that goes out has had the biology work on it first, so it is already in an amino acid form, and the plant does not have to expend energy on it, converting for use.