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Collingwood Ethanol VP ULC and Rotary Club of
Collingwood South Georgian Bay Present
All-Natural Earth-Friendly Corn Gluten Lawn
Fertilizer
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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• locally grown corn
• fertilizer produced locally
• all natural earth friendly

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer is

• generated through the production of
• ethanol
• ethanol is generated through the wet mill
• process, starting with grain

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water
grain
water
washing and filtering
gluten separation
cleaning
steeping
grinding
fiber
germ
gluten
liquid waste
heat, enzymes
yeast
steam
starch
cooking
fermentation
distillation
ethanol
gaseous emissions wastewater
carbon dioxide
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• Gluten process
• Gluten is dried
• Pelletized
• Inserted in 9kg and 18kg bag
• Bag labels fertilizer or weed control

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• Lawn Care 101
• healthy soil feeds healthy grass
• dense grass chokes out weeds
• What is in the healthy soil?
• organic matter beneficial bacteria
• constant supply of nutrients

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• How to build organic matter?
• neutral pH essential for healthy decomposing
  bacteria
• use fertilizers that are neutral
• spread compost/recycle grass clippings
• clippings to compost in 2 weeks

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Essential Nutrients in soil N Nitrogen P
Phosphorus K Potassium E.g. 7 7 7 N P
K
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• Green Blades of Grass
• nitrogen sunlight water
• healthy grass needs 1-2 kg/ 100m2/year of
  nitrogen

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• has a natural NPK rating of 10 nitrogen by
  weight,10-0-0
• 10 kg of fertilizer/100 m2 1 kg of N
• mulching your grass clippings will supply ½ of N
  to soil

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• N is released over 30 to 40 days
• use in flower and vegetable garden after
• plants establish

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• contains organic dipeptides
• acts as a natural germination inhibitor
• so weed seeds dont germinate

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• does not kill root
• must be applied 2-3 years for complete weed
  control
• year 1- 85, year 2- 98
• weeds cant complete
• nature patience success

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• weed control apply in spring
• new seeds apply later summer or early fall
• overseed and new sod wait 20 days until roots are
  established

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• green lawn without use of harmful
• chemicals or toxic products
• does not burn grass
• apply with fertilizer spreader
• apply rain or shine
• safe for pets and children immediately

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• controls 23 weed types
• reduces crabgrass by 85 in first year
• and 98 in second year

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Why now?

• government regulation of pesticide use
• consumer demand for safe lawn
• fertilizer
• concern about the environment

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Why now?

• medical concerns about use of
• weed and insect control chemicals
• alternative solution for healthy lawn
• care where pesticides have been
• banned in local Communities

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Why now?

• use of pesticides in Collingwood and
• Oakville banned, effective January 1,
• 2008 (Toronto Star, Feb. 2007)
• Newmarket bans cosmetic pesticide
• use on lawns and in gardens, effective
• Sept. 1, 2008 (Toronto Star, June 2006)

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Why now?

• over 120 municipalities, including
• Toronto, have now banned pesticide
• use (Toronto Star, Feb. 2007)
• PEI moves to control the sale of
• domestic pesticides (CBC News, Jan. 2007)

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Why now?

• 75 of Ottawa residents support a
• ban on pesticides for residential
• property (Ottawa Sun, Feb. 2005)

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Why now?

• The most commonly used weed killer
• on Canadian lawns and gardens
• known only as 2,4-D is
• "persuasively linked" to cancer
• (Pediatrics and Child Health)

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True or false?
Organic lawn fertilizers dont work as well as
chemical lawn

• False

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True or false?
Research proves corn gluten lawn fertilizer
matches and in some respects exceeds the
performance of top chemical fertilizers

• True

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True or false?
Organic lawn fertilizers are more expensive
than chemical lawn fertilizers.

• False

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True or false?
Corn gluten all-natural lawn fertilizer is
competitively priced

• True

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Corn Gluten Lawn Fertilizer

• Prices
• 18 kg bag (38.98 taxes)
• 9 kg bag (19.98 taxes)
• 4.00 of the price donated to Rotary Club to be
  used in the community

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• Rotary is selling the fertilizer at
• the same price as retail stores
• money raised will stay in
• Community

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• funds raised by Rotary have gone
• to the following
• RVH Cancer Hospital
• Collingwood General Marine Hospital
• Sunset Point
• local high schools
• Big Brothers and Sisters
• Salvation Army
• Easter Seals

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Who to contact Collingwood Ethanol Amaizeinglygre
en.ca or Rotary Club of Collingwood South
Georgian Bay Rotarycollingwoodsgb.org
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