Infinite Carbon

Carbon Farming is conventional farming where the focus is on maintaining soil health and crop nutrition through sufficient soil carbon resources. 

Soil carbon is increased by the addition of carbon source material, literally plants and animals, that decompose (compost) back into their natural form, humus. 

Humus in soils is the largest terrestrial store of organic carbon: worldwide, about four times as much carbon is stored in soils as in above-ground vegetation, and more than twice as much as in the atmosphere. 

Humus and organic material are essential for natural crop nutrition and soil health. A healthy soil should have somewhere close to 15% carbon by volume. Currently most of our farm fields have below 5%. This reduces water percolation and retention capacity by two thirds, from somewhere close to 1800 tonnes of water a hectare to 600 tonnes, a massive reduction in the ability of the soil to provide water to crops and a major source of floods as the water cannot percolate back into the ground and deeper towards aquifers. 

Carbon is the food source for worms, bacteria and fungi, which in turn ingest and convert to plant accessible nutrients. 

Trials have proven that fields with soil carbon volumes close to 15% produce crops that are far less likely to suffer disease or infestation as they healthy, and the nutrition levels are considerably higher. Volumes of crops and trees increase by as much as 500%. 

Conversely, chemical grown crops have declining production volumes and nutrition as the soils become more compacted and the natural ecosystem contribution to crop growth is much reduced. Crop performance drops as compaction grows, water capabilities of the soil drops and chemically delivered nutrients become less effectively delivered to crops. This is the current industrial farming trajectory for most farms. The only way to reverse this is to add more soil carbon.

If we further consider that most farm fields have deficits of some 200 tonnes of carbon, then we can see that farms offer an excellent large scale carbon capture, utilization and storage solution for the carbon markets. 

However, simply making compost from multiple sources of organic waste has some risk. Much of our organic waste is derived from farming, forestry and animal husbandry which utilizes hormones, antibiotics and many sources of disease and infestations. If this organic waste is not treated properly to remove these contaminates, we will simply see a faster proliferation of disease that could impact agricultural production. At Infinity Carbon, we use Bioreactors to control the process of converting organic waste into humus and then commercial biological soil fertilizers. This allows us to capture all of the carbon emissions associated with the process and to ensure the complete eradication of these contaminations. 

Food waste is an excellent source of plant available NPK fertilizer. We know this because the NPK is in the food!

Manures have essentially passed through animal composters which may have introduced hormones, antibiotics and disease. The manure remains an excellent raw material source for fertilizers as long as we can treat it through a controlled thermophilic process. The Infinity Biological Soils Bioreactor provides this control. 

Finally the volume and commerce of carbon farming is the final barrier of why carbon farming has not become more mainstream. Many people cannot produce soils as they lack the space, the expertise and the volume of raw materials needed to produce the volumes required.  Infinite Carbon has resolved this by having the technology to process the material at a price that can be serviced by the carbon price and waste management cost savings.  This should reduce farm costs and increase farm revenues which therefore catalyzes economies while reducing the with cost of living. It provides a very low cost carbon credit source. Therefore we see the farm value generated couples to the waste management savings and the carbon market value outcomes all provide the drivers, finance and demand in support of Infinite Carbon. 

As a farmer, in its simplest form, applying more active carbon in biological soil fertilizer form, will remove most, if not all, of your current farm problems. 

Infinite Carbon is focused on providing all farmers with access to the highest quality biological soil fertilizers to rebuild their soil health. 

If you want our Fertilizers, please contact us for more information.  contact@infinitecarbon.co.uk