Science news articles about 'nitrogen fertilizer'

  • Legumes: Good lasting nitrogen fertilizer

    MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A 112-year U.S. cotton experiment shows winter legumes are as effective as nitrogen fertilizer in producing similar cotton crops.
  • Dosage of fertilizer helps to enhance quality of wheat

    ... yield but also in the end quality of the wheat. Nevertheless, the use of nitrogenated fertilizers has had negative consequences for the environment, as plants only manage to incorporate about half of ...
  • A little nitrogen can go a long way

    ... Site 1 in 2003, variable rate nitrogen management increased the gross economic return ... profitable in situations with relatively wide maize to nitrogen fertilizer price ratios, and where a significant ...
  • New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer’s Blast Threat

    A major chemical company has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.
  • Nitrogen applied

    ... crop output. Cover crops are an important tool in this cycle, and while it is known that using nitrogen fertilizers can increase these crops biomass, the resulting levels of nitrogen for the following ...
  • Keeping yields, profits and water quality high

    ... were applied in small grain and forage legume crops. Over the period of 2003-2006, both synthetic Nitrogen fertilizer and herbicide use was lower in the three- and four-year LEI systems ...
  • New findings on ocean nitrogen

    ... that policy makers take action now to arrest this. “The solution lies in controlling the use of nitrogen fertiliser and tackling pollution from the rapidly increasing numbers of cars, particularly ...
  • Addressing the 'nitrogen cascade'

    ... of the Earth's atmosphere. But in the past century, with the mass production of nitrogen-based fertilizers and the large-scale burning of fossil fuels, massive amounts of reactive nitrogen compounds, ...
  • Study in Science cites impact of anthropogenic nitrogen on ocean biology, atmospheric CO2

    ... 2020 using scenarios from the IPCC report. “All of us are concerned that the amount of anthropogenic nitrogen transported to the oceans will to continue to rise in the future,” commented Prospero.
  • Forest canopies help determine natural fertilization rates

    ... fixation rates. The moss would initially buffer the forest against the effect of nitrogen added as pollution or fertilizer; however, chronic elevated nitrogen inputs would ultimately eliminate this ...
  • Forest Canopies Help Determine Natural Fertilization Rates

    ... that controls the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal forest ecosystems has been reported in Science. The researchers showed that this natural fertilization process appears to be partially ...
  • Nitrogen: Nutrient of Life

    ... is a key component of agricultural fertilizers and is crucial to the world's food supply. A comprehensive review of the principles and management implications of nitrogen in the soil-plant-water ...
  • Improving swine waste fertilizer

    ... USDA-ARS and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln compared nitrogen and phosphorus availability in field plots receiving inorganic fertilizer, manure from swine fed traditional corn diets, or manure ...
  • Study predicts crop-production costs will jump dramatically in 2009

    ... the ground will jump by about a third in 2009, fueled by fertilizer prices expected to surge 82 percent ... "Roughly 80 percent of the cost of producing nitrogen fertilizer is natural gas, so as natural ...
  • Soil's Carbon Storage Capacity Investigated

    ... have investigated soil carbon balance in distinct agroecosystems under different management practices including soil tillage, nitrogen fertilization, elimination of fallow and establishment of grass.

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