Ninety-one percent of farmers were overapplying nitrogen fertilizer to their crops, with some spreading up to 30 pounds more ...

To address the issue, the scientists tested if they could disable the StCDF1 gene to produce potatoes in an extremely ...

While the extended dry, warm fall has made harvest of corn and soybeans smoother for farmers, it also means farmers might ...

Moderate to severe drought conditions across the Corn Belt provided ideal conditions for fast harvest, but it also draws ...

Forever Growing Needs As the world population keeps rising, our need for more food is increasing as well. We will need to significantly grow more food by 2050 if we are to avoid food deprivation. In ...

Extreme weather from climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from fertilizers ...

"Napapagod na ang lupa,” seasoned farmers told us over two decades ago, as my Brain Trust Inc. colleague Dr. Roehl Briones ...

Deputy Secretary Torres Small said the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program ... the production capacity of its urea and ammonium nitrate facility to 580,000 tons per year.

The 5,568 hectares of peri-urban and urban agriculture in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona require a total of 1,474 tons of NPK nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) yearly, three ...

Scientists in Ferrara, Italy, have conducted a study using microbial biofertilizers and algae-based biostimulants instead of synthetic fertilizers on tomato crops — and the results were very promising ...

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585 ,Republic of Singapore Institute of Materials Research and Engineering,Agency for Science, ...