Fertilizer industry finds its alternative energy: corncobs

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 09:14 in Earth & Climate

American agriculture has become increasingly dependent on foreign sources of natural gas, a key ingredient in the nitrogen fertilizer that farmers use to get high yields of crops such as corn and wheat.

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