This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more ...

A team of researchers from several institutions in Niger, Germany and the U.K. has conducted a real-world test of the use of human urine as a natural form of fertilizer for crops. In their paper ...

Studies indicate that products like MAP, DAP and TSP may deliver less plant-available phosphorus than growers assume, ...

This story originally appeared at Ambrook Research. Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate “P4FARMS” pulls into Jesse Kayan’s farm in Brattleboro, Vermont, loaded with a ...

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 ...

When it comes to caring for your lawn and garden, applying fertilizer is a key step. However, fertilizing at the wrong time can actually do more harm than good. Therefore, it is important to know when ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and ...

American farmers are expected to plant several million fewer acres of corn in 2026 than they did in 2025, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz throttles a key fertilizer trading corridor, along with ...

If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more accurately, they share one. They’ve developed symbiotic relationships with bacteria that process atmospheric ...