DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A $28.2 million flood prevention project is on hold due to concerns of lingering contamination from a 2020 fertilizer spill. Improvements to the 16th Street Detention Basin ...
If you shop for fertilizer in Connecticut this fall, you will see some labels missing from the shelves and more paperwork behind the ones that remain. The reason is new state rules targeting certain ...
The European Parliament has resoundingly voted to ban ‘meaty’ names for plant-based products. The ban would prevent manufacturers using terms commonly associated with meat to describe plant-based and ...
Eduardo Blumwald, center, is a distinguished professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences. Lab members Hiromi Tajima, left, and Akhilesh Yadav are among those who have been working to ...
The European Union opened an investigation into urea imports from Russia after fertilizer producers in the bloc complained the shipments undercut market prices. Lobby group Fertilizers Europe alleged ...
Surging costs for key crop nutrients that growers need could spur sharp cutbacks in fertilizer use. Prices are climbing for phosphate, crucial for plant growth, amid fear that an already difficult ...
Scientists show that nanoscale selenium can reduce fertilizer use by 30%, improve rice nutrition, and lower greenhouse gases. (Nanowerk News) The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 ...
The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs. This may be about to change, thanks to ...
The outlook for fertilizer costs versus commodity prices for next season is a tough one for farmers across the country. With that fact in mind, we have compiled 26 nutrient recommendations, tips, ...
“We’re in very bad shape,” Josh Linville of StoneX says. “Phosphate is in dire straits. And honestly, it needs demand destruction this fall to rebalance the supply and demand. These high prices are ...
Oman India Fertiliser Co SAOC has started early preparations for a potential listing in Muscat, marking a renewed push by the sultanate to privatize companies and deepen its capital markets. OMIFCO, ...
Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...