URBANA, Ill. — Corn growers seeking to increase the amount of nitrogen taken up by their crop can adjust many aspects of fertilizer application, but recent studies from the University of Illinois ...

Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021, causing great ...

Roughly 25% to 50% of the total commercial nitrogen applied to fields across the state occurs in the fall. Waiting for cooler soil temperatures helps prevent nitrates from flushing into streams and ...

Corn growing in the Irene Rose Sohn Zegar Memorial Greenhouse on the top floor of NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to ...

Apr. 2—Despite the conflict being on the other side of the world, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had ripple effects in various aspects of daily life in the United States. It has further driven up ...

Researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to grow cereals such as rice, wheat and corn. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a way to ...

Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...

Research shows injecting manure into winter triticale fields can meet nitrogen needs while saving on fertilizer costs and ...

This year's planting season marks the first time since 2018 that soybean acreage has exceeded corn. (Dave Kaup/REUTERS) U.S. farmers are planting less corn this growing season amid a shortage of ...

SAO PAULO, July 9 (Reuters) - Mosaic Fertilizantes, a unit of Mosaic Co MOS.N, sees fertilizer demand in Brazil growing by 6% to as much as 10% in 2021 if demand from corn farmers proves strong, an ...

UC Davis researchers have discovered a way to grow cereal crops, like rice and wheat, with less nitrogen fertilizer, reducing pollution and saving farmers billions. Researchers at the University of ...