Advanced Composting: The Johnson-Su Bioreactor System in Australia

What is the Johnson-Su Bioreactor? The Johnson-Su Bioreactor is a composting system developed by Dr David Johnson and Hui-Chun Su at New Mexico State University specifically to produce fungal-dominated compost for application to depleted agricultural soils. Unlike conventional composting (which produces predominantly bacterial compost that is excellent for annual vegetables), the Johnson-Su system is designed to maximise fungal diversity and biomass. This fungal-dominated biology is particularly…