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UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

Surrounded by 2,400 hectares of tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables near Fresno, California, the white shipping container looks small. Inside, light flashes through the porthole windows of a ...

One hundred years ago, synthetic nitrogen fertilizer was invented. It was an incredible creation. It enabled enough food production so that the world's population could grow from 3 billion people to ...

Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric acid, the most critical nutrient in fertilizer that plants use to grow everything we humans eat. The ...

AMES, Iowa – Midwest researchers want to take some of the greenhouse gas emissions out of crop fertilizer. Research teams from Iowa State University and Wichita State University in Kansas are teaming ...

According to a University of Illinois crop sciences researcher, there has been a great deal of interest recently in the idea of using nitrogen fertilizer during the growing season to increase soybean ...

As with most tasks on the farm, timing is everything. But in addressing a nitrogen deficiency in corn, when is only half the equation — the other major consideration is how and which nitrogen ...

When most Minnesotans think about the climate crisis they think about energy or transportation. What’s missing? Agriculture. Right behind transportation, agriculture produces 25% of Minnesota’s ...

Prices for raw materials that constitute the fertilizer market — ammonia, nitrogen, nitrates, phosphates, potash and sulphates — are up 30% since the turn of the year. Russia and Ukraine are among the ...