Patent ID: 8758473

Claim:
A method of production of a biologically active humic product comprising the steps of: (i) providing a starting material comprising peat having a moisture content substantially that of naturally occurring peat; (ii) preliminarily granulating said starting material in order to produce granules having a diameter less than that of the starting material; (iii) curing said granules from step (ii) in a closed tank; (iv) cooling said cured granules in said closed tank; (v) combining said cooled granules from step (iv) with an aqueous solution; (vi) re-granulating said cured granules in said aqueous solution from step (v) to reduce the diameter of said cured granules to less than the diameter of the granules of step (ii); (vii) stirring said aqueous solution containing said re-granulated granules of step (vi) to form a homogeneous viscous fluid paste; (viii) adjusting the pH of said fluid paste of step (vii) to a pH in the range of from 10 to 10.5; and (ix) cooling said paste from step (viii).