When you think about a thriving ecosystem, it’s easy to see the symbiotic relationship between plants and animals. Plants feed animals and, in return, animals fertilize plants through scat and ...

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There’s no doubt farmers are hunting to cut costs in 2025 — and one of the targets to trim is fertility. “If your fertility is in good shape, there’s probably room to pull back a little bit,” says Ken ...

When strolling the aisles of your local grocery store, odds are you don’t think too much about the soil and minerals used to grow the shiny bushels of apples or bins of juicy tomatoes. But without ...

Scientists are using electricity to separate nitrogen from air and make fertilizer. Today, nitrogen fertilizer is made in fossil fuel-fired factories that can be thousands of miles from the nearest ...

Fruit tree fertilizer isn’t one-size-fits-all—especially if you want a harvest worth bragging about. Before you feed your trees, it’s important to understand what your soil needs, what your tree is ...

Silas Muchiri and his wife, Veronicah, inspected maize, which was nearly ready to harvest at their farm in Embu County, Kenya, last year.Caroline Karuitha/Farm Africa Rising fertilizer prices and ...

Farmers depend on synthetic fertilizers to deliver the high crop yields required to meet global food demand, but that comes at a cost to the environment. Much fertilizer production relies on natural ...

Natural fertilizer alternatives are out there — and they work better than expected. Researchers make shocking discovery after ...

Most people don’t give fertilizer a second thought—except maybe when driving through a particularly fragrant agricultural area. But with prices for some synthetic nutrients at their highest levels ...

Fertilizer stocks are rising. Why? It’s kind of a strange thing to see go up. The answer is oil. Oil is used to make fertilizer. So, high oil prices also make fertilizer more expensive. And now, many ...