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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
A major chemical company has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... have investigated soil carbon balance in distinct agroecosystems under different management practices including soil tillage, nitrogen fertilization, elimination of fallow and establishment of grass.