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Kisal wrote:Fertilizer factories use bones from many different sources to make bone meal. I think it would be impossible for them to keep the bones of the animals that were raised organically separate from the bones of all the other animals. It probably wouldn't be very feasible, either, from a financial point of view. JMO.
Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:53 pm
gixxerific wrote:Kisal wrote:Fertilizer factories use bones from many different sources to make bone meal. I think it would be impossible for them to keep the bones of the animals that were raised organically separate from the bones of all the other animals. It probably wouldn't be very feasible, either, from a financial point of view. JMO.
The next question is "they are bones does it even matter"?
Steaming vs. cooking
Steaming once was the accepted method for producing bone meal. But now most companies have switched to short-time cooking to produce a bone meal with higher nitrogen levels and to increase profits. While there is a perception that a high level of nitrogen is good, it is also the reason these bone meals can become rancid and provide an environment for the formation of harmful bacteria. All bone meal products have some meat byproducts remaining since it is impossible for all of it to be removed during processing. That's why any product showing more than 1% nitrogen can be considered "unclean".
The bones used to produce all VitaSoil bone meal are processed under 43 pounds of steam pressure for three hours. At this point all protein is decanted off and the bones are steamed for an additional hour to sterilize them and destroy remaining bacteria. VitaSoil Bone Meal is derived from a food processing plant where all bones are 100% USDA inspected. Few, if any, other bone meal brands can make this statement. An added benefit to steaming over cooking is that the process makes the phosphorous more readily available to a plant's roots. And you will use less VitaSoil Steamed Bone Meal in your feeding program because it contains a higher amount of available phosphorous than other bone meals.
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Decado wrote:Also, all I can find is the vigoro and MG stuff.
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