Harvesters – Cornstalk type – Cutters
Patent
1990-03-05
1991-04-09
Suchfield, George A.
Harvesters
Cornstalk type
Cutters
56 1, 56DIG2, 71 23, 460 11, A01D 4100, A01F 1240, C05G 306
Patent
active
050053450
ABSTRACT:
Improved agricultural technology has increased yields of cereal crops to a level wherein the crop residues left on the land are of such volume as to interfere with the following crop. Historically, these residues have been incinerated and the practice continues to this day, polluting the air, causing health problems, destroying valuable natural plant foods and soil humus. It is the nature of cereal crop residues to degrade slowly because of their low nitrogen content and complex polysaccharide chemical moieties. This application teaches that by crushing and shredding the crop residue and applying a liquid nutrient enrichment medium for the growth of the native soil microflora decay can be accelerated. Species of fungi such as Rhizopus, Aspergillus, Penicillium, and species of the hay bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, Actinomyces, and the like, all being indigenous soil inhabitants, feeding voraciously on our microbial nutrient enrichment medium, provided as herein described, induce an accelerated rate of decay removing the need for incinerating the crop residue. By means of this disclosure cereal growers may improve their land without harm to the environment. The implementation of this injective, already well known to the art of harvesting cereal crops and culturing an oxidative microflora, enables the owners of combine harvesters to assembly and use the disclosed method of accelerating decay of crop residues.
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Gill Paul E.
Pinckard Joseph A.
Ramsey William S.
Suchfield George A.
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