To help my students get exceptional results from their gardens, I teach them to build soil health with regular additions of ...

Just when yard work is winding down, give your lawn one last feeding. An application of fall fertilizer helps produce healthy, lush grass come spring.

A giant pumpkin starts off as the perfect seed. Growers choose seeds that have yielded large pumpkins in the past or test new ...

It’s critical to use the correct nitrogen stabilizer with anhydrous ammonia this fall. Farmers will invest at least $14 an acre in one, says Gary Schnitkey, agricultural economist. He encourages ...

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs. This may be about to change, thanks to ...

The Mosaic Company has received a state permit to drill an exploratory well in Polk County, Florida. The well will test the geology for the potential deep underground injection of fertilizer ...

The relative price measure for anhydrous compared to the corn price may have peaked in 2021, but remains at an elevated level. Fertilizer prices aren’t at historic highs, but relative to last year’s ...

High nutrient input leads to problems such as excessive accumulation of soil nutrients, and imbalance of microbial communities. However, there remains significant gaps in the impact of soil ...

Kyle Anderson, left, an Ames entrepreneur, and Santanu Bakshi, an Iowa State scientist, examine a pyrolysis pilot plant at Iowa State's BioCentury Research Farm. The equipment heats biomass to produce ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and ...