Synthetic agricultural product

Abstract

The disclosure relates generally to a synthetic agricultural product and methods and systems for producing a synthetic agricultural product or composition. The method of producing a synthetic agricultural product may comprise providing an effective amount of fertilizer and/or other agricultural product sufficient to effectuate a response in a plant, an effective amount of a mineral substance having a high cation exchange capacity, and an effective amount of water sufficient to effectuate a desired result in a plant. The fertilizer and/or other agricultural product and mineral substance may be added into the effective amount of water, thereby creating the synthetic agricultural product. Known ions, such as fertilizer ions, and native ions in the native mineral substance may be exchanged to produce a synthetic agricultural product.

1 . A method of producing a liquid product, the method comprising:
 providing an effective amount of an agricultural product sufficient to effectuate a desired result in a plant comprising known ions; an effective amount of a mineral substance having a high cation exchange capacity; and an effective amount of water sufficient to effectuate a desired result in a plant and maintain the effective amount of the agricultural product and the effective amount of the mineral substance in suspension and solution;   forming a solution by adding the effective amount of the agricultural product and the effective amount of the mineral substance into the effective amount of water; and   exchanging native ions in the mineral substance with the known ions in the agricultural product by adding energy into the solution to thereby raise an energy level of the solution to produce a synthetic mineral substance and a liquid product.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing an effective amount of water comprises providing an effective amount of ultrapure water. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing an effective amount of water comprises providing an effective amount of double distilled water. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing an effective amount of water comprises providing an effective amount of untreated water. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing an effective amount of water comprises providing an effective amount of potable water. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein there are at least two orders of magnitude difference between ions in the effective amount of the agricultural product and ion exchange sites in the effective amount of the mineral substance. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance having a high cation exchange capacity has an equivalents in a range of about 10 Milliequivalents/100 g to about 600 Milliequivalents/100 g. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the effective amount of water falls within a range of about 0.1 gallon to about 6000 gallons. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the agricultural product is a liquid fertilizer or a combination of fertilizer and other beneficial molecules that promote plant health and growth. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the effective amount of liquid fertilizer falls within a range of about 0.10 gallons to about 50 gallons. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the effective amount of the mineral substance falls within a range of about 5 micrograms to about 2 kilograms. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance having a high cation exchange capacity comprises alumina silicate, silicate, aluminum, sodium aluminosilicate, hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate, or other tuff material. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance comprises montmorillonite, illite, kaolinite, smectite and zeolite. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance comprises smectite. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance comprises zeolite. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance is a carrier of nutrients and small organic molecules used to protect plants, kill plants, or used as plant growth regulators to promote plant health, fruiting, growth, or used to slow plant growth for use by a cell. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the agricultural product comprises particles that fall within a range of 1 nanometer to 1000 nanometers. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mineral substance comprises both phyllosilicate and tectosilicate. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises exchanging ions from the mineral substance with selected ions of a known source. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a concentration of mineral particles in solution is within a range of 1×10 −8  mg/ml to 1×10 4  mg/ml, and wherein a concentration of agricultural product ions or molecules ranges from 0.01 mg/ml to saturation point. 
     
     
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