Corn Gluten Meal - a new Lawn Care, Product: (informational advertisement) Corn gluten meal has many uses, particularly as a food staple for our pets and farm livestock. Only recently has it,s value as a great lawn product emerged. Dr. Nick Christians, of Iowa State University, stumbled across corn gluten,s properties while doing some unrelated plant research. He found that where the product was used, fewer broadleaf weeds were present in the soil. With that discovery, he set about to find out how and why this material controlled many weeds and annual grasses. He found that peptides in the corn meal inhibited the germination of the seeds of certain weed varieties. He also saw that crabgrass germination was substantially reduced when using corn meal. In his research he learned that timing of the application was critical. If the product were applied after the weed seed had germinated, it would not work. The trick was to make sure it went on prior to weeds germinating. His research found that over a 4 year period, dandelion infestation was reduced by over 70%. He also learned that turf response to corn was excellent, and that alone made it a high quality turf fertilizer. Only very recently, in Canada, has corn gluten meal been readily available on the turf market. It is not registered here as a turf herbicide yet. Under the strict rules of the Canadian Pest Control Products Act, no firm is allowed to claim the product controls weeds. For now, it is marketed as a high quality organic turf amendment. Within the next couple of years, it is hoped that it will be registered for controlling weeds. Nutri-Lawn has thoroughly tested this product, and has found it to be effective as a fertilizer and as a weed control agent. What a great natural product!