The clear differences firstly are apparent in the process where no manures are sourced in the definition of a mineralized fertilizer; these are naturally mined ingredients which contain an analysis specific to its chemistry. These minerals including Carbon, once applied to the soil are both recognizable and highly digestible bacterially, so when broken down or chelated they can be taken up by the plant once attached to colloidal clays and humus in the soil, in this suspended state the plant accesses nutrients required to perform their primary metabolic functions when conditions desire.

The buffering of salts either synthetically or naturally derived occur when beneficial bacteria dissolve dense humic substances which create strong conditioning properties in the soil and as importantly when sourced by the plants feeder roots create a micro shield against contaminates.

Alternatively dangerous pathogens may be present in composts derived from freshly sourced manures and so should only be incorporated into the soil profile when aged or decomposed. Fresh composted manures should never be stored near harvested produce as this could result in food borne illnesses or areas where runoff could contaminate drinking water or food production.

Unknown or unreliable nutrient composition can be overlooked when using composted manure, applying large amounts of fresh poultry manure to already fertile soil may result in excess Nitrogen which could be detrimental to the roots of seedlings.

Salts are readily used in the raising of feed lot cattle and when excreted creates high concentrations of salts in the manure so when composted can inherently weaken or debilitate the plant’s capacity to uptake nutrient via the root zone and once present in the plant tissue, the cell membrane becomes weakened and so the manufacture and distribution of chlorophyll is thus critically reduced throughout the plant.