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Estimating organic nutrients

I’m really curious - I’ve been using a rice bran based horse feed as carrier to culture home made bokashi, because in the recipe I was using for reference from Japan, they use raw rice bran obtained as waste product from rice milling stations.

I was trying to figure out if the NPK ratio is appropriate for this phase in the gardening season, and looked up the horse feed website for nutritional analysis… and it looks pretty promising — but does anyone know how to roughly translate this into typical plant nutrients?

I know Protein/amino acids would be source of nitrogen, and Fiber/carbohydrates would be source of carbon — just don’t know how much we can tell in specifics from what is shown.

I believe the bokashi culturing process adds/converts some of the ingredients into more plant-available nitrogen as well.


Rice Bran — Naturals - Triple Crown Feed

https://www.triplecrownfeed.com/products/ricebran/

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
Crude Protein (min.)
13.00%
Lysine (min.)
1.00%
Methionine (min.)
0.45%
Threonine (min.)
0.65%
Tryptophan (min.)
0.35%
Leucine (min.)
1.20%
Crude Fat (min.)
17.00%
Crude Fiber (max.)
12.50%
ADF (max.)
10.00%
NDF (max.)
18.00%
Calcium (min.)
1.50%
Calcium (max.)
2.50%
Phosphorus (min.)
1.50%
Magnesium (min.)
0.70%
Potassium (min.)
1.20%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids (min.)
0.20%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids (min.)
6.00%
Selenium (min.)
0.30 ppm
Zinc (min.)
25 ppm
Copper (min.)
12 ppm
Vitamin E (min.)
25 IU/lb.

INGREDIENTS
Stabilized Rice Bran, Calcium Carbonate, Calcite, Lysine, DL-Methionine, L-Tryptophan, Threonine, L-Leucine



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