Against a relentless stream of bad weather news, decreased crop yields and agricultural volatility have remained a steady ...

Walk into any garden center, and you will see bags of fertilizers labeled "organic," "natural," or "eco-friendly." The packaging often features lush vegetables, bright flowers, and earthy tones ...

Each year, the U.S. spends billions cleaning up fertilizer runoff that pollutes rivers, fuels toxic algal blooms, and drives ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 30, 2018) While conventional farming practices rely primarily on new sources of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to grow crops, organic agriculture conserves nitrogen by using ...

The environmental and aesthetic virtues of organic agriculture have been overblown. Organic agriculture has been growing rapidly in recent years—by a factor of 10 from 1992 to 2005—but still accounts ...

If I’m reading the banana peels correctly, the prospects for organic agriculture have never been better. Indeed, the most recent batch of bananas I bought came adorned with a “certified organic” ...

Another growing season is fast approaching, and before you can seed you must feed. Now is the time to decide whether to use organic or synthetic fertilizers to enrich the soil. They produce similar ...

Once upon an organic fraud, two grifters sold farmers a $50-million river of fake fertilizer. Fish guts and chicken feathers, juiced with synthetic nitrogen, became the nutrient steroids of the gods.

You've no doubt read about the advantages and near-miraculous properties of organic matter in the soil. Organic soil matter is anything that used to be alive or is currently alive. Organic matter is a ...

Using organic liquid plant feeds is a natural way to deliver a boost of nutrients to specific plants at a particular time. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in ...

Organic agriculture has been growing rapidly in recent years—by a factor of 10 from 1992 to 2005—but still accounts for a tiny 0.5 percent of total farmland in the United States, according to the U.S.