It is very simple to say Biogest AAF is a combination of nutrients, micro-nutrients, amino acids, minerals and plant extracts that promotes the proliferation of facultative aerobic bacteria. Making this explanation meaningful to the end user requires some additional explanation. Bacterial populations may be fundamentally changed in a matter of hours if application methods provide comprehensive coverage. Increasing the facultative aerobes creates a population that can take its oxygen from a source other than dissolved oxygen. At the same time, aerobic bacteria are utilizing the dissolved oxygen in the substrate to oxidize volatile fatty acids and sulfides.
Additional nitrogen is tied up in complex amino acids as the process continues.
The treatment continues to work on manageable substrates such as manure floors and pits, sludge, compost windrows and even on porous public areas such as parking garage floors, even when new wastes are added, because once the biological population has shifted, the incoming wastes actually maintain and sustain both the facultative and aerobic microbes to continue the balance. In unmanageable substrates, situations where undesirable components or quantities may be incorporated, additional applications of Biogest AAF may be required. For example, as turkeys continue to defecate and urinate in a confinement house, the organic wastes produced do not change appreciably. However, if another type of organic waste were introduced, the microbial population might shift, requiring additional BioGest AAF and additional time to restore the balance. Likewise, the addition of any ingredient harmful to the population can effect treatment.