Vol. XVII No. 4
July / August 2023
Serving Soil, Mulch, Compost & Wood Pellet Producers www.SoilandMulchProducerNews.com
NEWS
Attention Readers !
Are you looking for Products, Equipment or Services for your business? If so, check out these leading companies advertised inside:
Automatic Floor Systems Keith Manufacturing Co – pg 16
Bagging/Palletizing Equipment Amadas Industries – pg 3 Charter Next Generation (CNG) – pg 13
Compost Turner Resource Machinery & Engineering – pg 12
Conveyors & Conveyor Parts Action Conveyors – pg 12 Amadas Industries – pg 3 Barford – pg 20 Maverick Environmental Equipment – pg 6 Smalis Conveyors – pg 20
Equipment Sales GrinderTrader.com – pg 22
Grinders, Chippers & Screening Systems Action Conveyors – pg 12 Amadas Industries – pg 3 Bandit – pg 5 Barford – pg 20 Diamond Z – pg 7 HogZilla – pg 18 Maverick Environmental Equipment – pg 6 McCourt Equipment – pg 14 Precision Husky – pg 17 Premier Tech – insert Spaleck USA – pg 8
Mulch Coloring Equipment/ Colorants AgriCoatings – pg 9 Amerimulch – pg 21 Britton Industries – pg 4 CMC – pg 19 Colorbiotics – pg 2 Faltech – pg 6 Florida Coastal Colors – pg 11 Milagro Rubber Inc – pg 18 Münzing Corporation – pg 15 T.H. Glennon Co – pg 24
Payload Weighing & Measuring Systems Walz Scale – pg 23
Tree & Stump Splitters U.S. Pride Products – pg 10
Trommel Brushes Power Brushes Inc – pg 22
Wear Parts ArmorHog – pg 14
Chef of Compost Industry Serves Up Custom Blends
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By P.J. Heller
f someone was to co-opt the Burger King slogan of “Have It Your Way,” it would likely be the crew at Full Circle Soils & Compost. Not content to produce just a standard compost that can be marketed to customers, Full Circle offers a complete menu of items that can be added to compost to create a blend geared specifically to a particular soil type. “We are 100 percent focused on the actual growability and usefulness and efficacy of the end product by not just making compost, but making compost with minerals and nutrients that work correctly,” explains Cody Witt of Full Circle. Witt sounds more like a master chef whipping up recipes of compost blends from the company’s pantry than the part owner and main site manager of a 40-acre compost facility in Carson City, NV. “We have very specific recipes for the compost itself with very specific ratios of what materials go into each pile based on the compost we’re making,” he says. “After that, we have a pantry of minerals and nutrients that we would add, again for our product line and for custom soil amendments that we would make. “We’re kind of the chef of the compost industry, where we take a large amount of our time
figuring out what’s the best product and usage for every specific project were working on for the best growth . . . from landscape to turf to garden to agriculture production to food production.” The concept for the compost recipes started with Witt’s father, Craig Witt, a fourth generation Nevada dairy farmer. He began seriously looking into soil nutrient density after becoming concerned about a decrease in overall crop growth and milk production in cows on lands typically treated with straight manure and chemical fertilizers. In the mid-1980s, Craig Witt began making some compost for his farm and in 1997 launched Full Circle to create large scale composting for the 500-acre farm. Before long, people in the area began coming to the farm to purchase his compost. In 2003, Full Circle moved to a new location in Carson City and began its composting operation one year later. The company has done intensive soil analysis profiles along the eastern Sierra Front, which includes northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area. The area stretches about 200 miles from the compost facility. “We have one of the largest databases of northern Nevada-eastern Sierra Front soil tests,”
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