Lawmakers are expected to debate the latest U.S. House Farm Bill proposal next week, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, which says the bill would reduce investment in programs that help ...

A recently released U.S. House farm bill proposal underinvests in proven solutions farmers rely on to cut fertilizer waste, ...

UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer ...

A newly developed catalyst that transforms nitrate-polluted water into ammonia has potential to be utilized in fertilizer ...

Nitrogen fertilizers are applied to crops to increase yield, but some of that nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere in the form of ammonia. Ammonia is a major air pollutant linked to numerous health ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master ...

Local government leaders from across Florida tell the Times they support their community’s fertilizer bans. A new report by the University of Florida says more research is needed to determine if ...

Nitrogen is an essential element for living organisms, needed to build DNA, proteins and chlorophyll. Although nitrogen makes up nearly 80% of the air we breathe, it’s availability to plants and ...

A proposal to tax the fertilizer that farmers use to boost crop yields — in the hopes of treating nitrate pollution of water in southeastern Minnesota — passed its first test on Thursday in the House ...