At Bio Minerals Technologies, we use biology to change the manure pit environment, reducing and eliminating toxic gases and foul odors while digesting solids.
It is common knowledge in the dairy industry that confined manure pits are extremely dangerous environments. And, while accidents are not common, they do happen, and the consequences can be tragic and deadly.
The danger arises from the accumulation of toxic gases, and the toxic gases are a direct result of poor anaerobic decomposition of the manure. In a typical manure pit or lagoon, the biological breakdown is controlled by anaerobic pathogens. These pathogens promote putrefaction, not digestion. Putrefaction is spoilage, and it stinks (hence the relationship to the word “putrid”)! Pathogens and putrefaction produce toxins and toxins destroy, both nutrition and life.
In a typical lagoon or pit, Nitrogen is lost as Ammonia, sulfur is lost as hydrogen sulfide, phosphate is lost as phosphine gas, and carbon is broken down and combined with hydrogen to produce methane. All very smelly and all very toxic. Neighbors don’t like it, and it is very dangerous to work around it, especially in confined areas! It is much safer to capture these nutrients and recycle them back into the soil rather than losing them to the atmosphere.
At Bio Minerals Technologies, we introduce large quantities of beneficial anaerobes, which quickly overtake and destroy the pathogens to create a digestive decomposition environment. When beneficial microbes control your pit or lagoon environment, they produce nutrition and life rather than poison and death.
Instead of off-gassing all of your nutrients as noxious and poisonous gases, the microbes consume them as they grow and reproduce. In addition, the beneficial microbes liquify and digest the solids, converting them into nutrition as well. Much of this nutrition is held within the microbial bodies, where it can be applied to the soil and gradually released through natural processes. Incorporating nutrients into microbial bodies also prevents excess soluble minerals from washing out of the soil and polluting adjacent waterways or aquifers. The microbes stay in the soil; they don’t wash away.
Using these beneficial microbes, we have eliminated the odors from many lagoons and pits, an indication of the absence of the toxic gases that produce these odors. The final product is not only biologically rich, but nutritionally rich, promoting a biologically active soil which supports a healthy and nutritious plant.
The process is simple, economical, and effective. Don’t wait for the next accident. Put the right biology in charge and fix the problem now!