Fertilizers are essential for feeding the world. But making ammonia, the key ingredient of fertilizers, produces large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions. Chemists have now made a device that ...

Reducing barriers to adoption is the key idea behind DPH Biologicals’ newest product – Envelix Prime. The first of the company’s Prime product line, Envelix is a biological mixed into granular ...

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world's growing population, but they are also costly adn harm ecosystems. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to acquire their own nitrogen ...

Fall is one of the three times of year you fertilize. When plants are ready to wake up in spring, you surprise them with a brunch of nitrogen-rich plant food to help them grow; in summer, you give ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

Kathleen Merrigan worked for six years at the US Department of Agriculture, most recently serving as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from 2009-2013. She is a venture partner at Astanor Ventures, a ...