Patent ID: 6878179

Claim:
A fertilizer composition comprised of decontaminated manure and Bacillus spores, wherein the decontaminated manure has a total aerobic/facultative viable plate count reduced by 2-4 logs (100 to 10,000 times) compared to raw manure, the Bacillus spores are present in sufficient concentration to effect a viable spore count of between 10^6 cfu to 10^9 cfu per gram of dry composition, and the Bacillus spores are derived from Bacillus selected from the group consisting of Bacillus laterosporus (ATCC PTA-3952), Bacillus laterosporus (ATCC PTA-3593), Bacillus licheniformis (ATCC PTA-6175), Bacillus subtilis (ATCC PTA-6174), and mixtures thereof.