Method for creating a verified food source

• US 7,533,490 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nature's Farm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Innovated Agricultural Concepts, LLC
• Inventors: Kerkhoff, Daniel P., Knoll, Daniel B.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TRINH T
• Application Number:
  US11/172,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20070000168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,419 Days
• Field of Search: 47/581.R, 47/581.FV, 119/51.01, 424/442
• US Class Current: 47/58.10R
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 2/00 Vegetative propagation plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques A01H4/00

Abstract

A method for creating a verified food source comprises planting verified seed in accordance with planting protocols to create a crop, growing the crop in accordance with crop protocols, harvesting the crop in accordance with harvest protocols to obtain grain, storing the grain in accordance with storage protocols, inspecting the grain to identify grain that meets predetermined grain standards, verifying the grain that meets the predetermined grain standards, feeding the verified grain to a certified food source, fostering the food source in accordance with fostering protocols, inspecting the food source to identify food source that meets the fostering protocols, and verifying the food source that meets the fostering protocols.

Claims

1. A method for creating a verified food source, comprising:

planting verified seed in accordance with planting protocols to create a crop;

growing the crop in accordance with crop protocols;

harvesting the crop in accordance with harvest protocols to obtain grain;

storing the grain in accordance with storage protocols;

inspecting the grain to identify grain that meets standards addressing test weight, moisture content, damage content, foreign material content, and mycotoxin content;

verifying the grain that meets the standards addressing test weight, moisture content, damage content, foreign material content, and mycotoxin content;

feeding the verified grain to a certified food source;

fostering the food source in accordance with fostering protocols;

inspecting the food source to identify food source that meets the fostering protocols;

verifying the food source that meets the fostering protocols;

auditing adherence to the planting protocols;

auditing adherence to the crop protocols;

auditing adherence to the harvest protocols; and

auditing adherence to the storage protocols;

wherein the planting protocols include;

providing sufficient buffer rows of plants and a sufficient distance between the crop and plants beyond the buffer rows to restrict the crop from cross-pollinating with other plants; and

contaminant regulations requiring all machinery used in planting the verified seed to be kernel clean;

wherein the crop protocols include;

insecticide regulations;

pesticide regulations;

herbicide regulations;

fungicide regulations;

maintaining the buffer rows; and

maintaining the contaminant regulations;

wherein the harvest protocols include contaminant regulations requiring all machinery used in harvesting the crop to be kernel clean;

wherein the harvest protocols require grain from the buffer rows to be permanently separated from the grain from the crop;

wherein the storage protocols include storage structure regulations and contaminant regulations;

wherein the fostering protocols include;

identification regulations;

vaccination regulations;

hormone regulations;

antibiotic regulations;

rations regulations;

separation regulations;

documentation regulations;

genetic regulations; and

humane treatment regulations;

wherein the verified food source is bovine;

wherein the verified seed causes the resulting verified grain to be higher in omega-3 fatty acids than occurs naturally

wherein the abnormally-high level of omega-3 fatty acids is transferred from the verified grain to the food source.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the crop is a corn crop.