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Location: CANADA, MONTREAL QUEBEC

Organic fertilizer.
This Mineral is a slow release natural product that decreases dependence on chemical fertilizers. It contains all the minerals and trace elements essential for grasslands, crops and animal health and also increases microbial and earthworm activity. Our Minerals has been found to add a rich mix of macro and micro nutrients to the soil, with clearly visible effects on crops. Some of the benefits farmers have reported are raised sugar levels in silage grass, clover growth promotion, extended grazing time at the year end, this is combined with an early show of grass in the spring, reduced dependence on chemical fertilisers, stock prefer grazing and simply thrive on treated ground. It has been used extensively in all aspects of farming including grassland, crops, orchards and more recently to improve the quality of grazing grass for horses to help control a condition called Epiphysitis. All animals grazing treated ground have shown a marked improvement in health and wellbeing. Organic Farmers and Growers Association have accredited this product. The Minerals has an excellent balance of minerals and trace elements, which is important so there is no nutrient lock-up. This allows grasses and crops to access the full range of nutrients necessary to maintain good health and vigorous growth. The ORGANIC FARMERS AND GROWERS ASSOCIATION has approved this product. Benefits to land and livestock! • Replaces and provides slow, natural release of elements and trace minerals • Increases the nutrient intake of plants • Increases yields • Re-balances soil pH • Increases microbial and earthworm activity • Increases storage capacity of the soil • Increases resistance to insects, disease and drought • Produces more nutritious crops • Decreases dependence on fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides • Extends shelf-life of crops • Binds up pollution caused by chemical fertilisers and helps to breakdown slurry mat • Excellent in promoting clover establishment Benefits to your garden! • Our product works well on flower beds and it also works well with active compost • Helps to revitalise the grass in your lawns • Helps to reduce moss and fungi growth in lawns • Helps in the early establishment of young trees, hedgerows and bedded plants • Vegetables - reduces need for chemical fertilisers giving a better quality in taste and a better shelf life • Ideal for Organic Vegetable growers The Minerals will redress this problem Building up the microbial and earthworm populations to pre toxin levels. This will help aeration, nitrogen fixation, humus building, water retention and lock up phosphate release. Microbes and earthworms break down the Minerals and turn minerals into protoplasm, which is then fed to plants and grasses increasing their sugar levels. Humus in the soil is necessary to support the growth of moulds and fungi. Moulds produce antibiotics that repel insects and fungi feed plants by dissolving and carrying minerals into their roots. As it remains in the soil in the winter nutrients are released slowly but this quickens as the soil warms in the spring when all micro-organisms go to work. It is self-regulating and your plants and grasses get the nutrients, when and where they need them most. After applying the Minerals, Farmers have reported up to 50% less use of fertilisers. This product has the same mineral and trace element profile as the Minerals, plus a slow release nitrogen content, which offers 70 units of nitrogen per ton. The slow release aspect of the product avoids the complications associated with chemical fertilizers, where up to half (and in some extreme cases two thirds) ammonia is lost to volatilization, leaching in ground water and heavy rainfall, the farmer compensates by using more fertilizer than is required. Arable farmers Intensive arable farming puts greater stress on soil nutrients. The Minerals+ will replace these nutritional elements and where there is a known deficiency or a particular element required, we will blend additional nutrients as per individual customer specifications. Why use Our Minerals? Benefits to land and livestock • Replaces and provides slow, natural release of elements and trace minerals • Increases the nutrient intake of plants • Increases yields • Re-balances soil pH • Increases microbial and earthworm activity • Increases storage capacity of the soil • Increases resistance to insects, disease and drought • Produces more nutritious crops • Decreases dependence on fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides • Extends shelf-life of crops • Binds up pollution caused by chemical fertilisers and helps to breakdown slurry mat • Excellent in promoting clover establishment Overall Benefits of the Minerals The minerals addresses the fundamental problems of highly weathered and strongly leached soils that are; to all intents and purposes worn out. The disadvantage of soluble nutrients is that they do little to