Waste products like coffee grounds and eggshells are widely used to improve soil health, but there are some more ...

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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 ...

Fertilizer. It’s a major contributor of greenhouse gases, accounting for roughly two percent of global emissions and 10 percent of agriculture’s environmental footprint. But now, a group of ...

In recent decades, public attention has focused on the level of market concentration in the processing component of the U.S. agribusiness sector, particularly the highly integrated livestock and ...

A good rule of thumb for most orchids is to fertilize "weekly, weakly" during the growing season, says Uzar. This means ...

The demand for fertilizer increased from 20 million tons in 1950 to 190 million tons in 2019. A handful of recent events have impacted the manufacturing and shipment of fertilizer, most notably high ...