Patent ID: 8007559

Claim:
A water-dispersible particle comprising: a fertilizer bioavailabie to a targeted organism present in an amount ranging from 5% to 99% by weight of the total dry weight of the particle, the fertilizer having a mean aggregate domain size of less than 500 micrometers, and comprising one or more of isobutylidene diurea, ammonium aniline, diammonium phosphate, mono-ammonium phosphate, dicyandiamide, or metal ammonium phosphates; a lignin derivative binder component, present in an amount ranging from 1% to 95% by weight of the total dry weight of the particle, said lignin derivative intermixed with said fertilizer fines throughout said particle; the particle having a mean particle domain size; said particle having a moisture content of less than 0.5% throughout; and the fertilizer and the lignin derivative binder component present in a form such that contact with water causes particle dispersion into more than 100 pieces.