LINCOLN, Neb. (NEBRASKA EXAMINER) - Eleven years ago, Wade Ellwanger began analyzing reports submitted by farmers detailing the amount of fertilizer being applied on cornfields in his area of ...

A research team demonstrates that China can maintain food security while sharply reducing nitrogen pollution by cutting agricultural nitrogen inputs by over one-third.

A five year field study in southern China shows that a single application of biochar combined with reduced nitrogen ...

AMES, Iowa – Newly published research from Iowa State University agronomists shows that the application of nitrogen fertilizer at optimum levels to corn and soybeans is required to maintain carbon in ...

On the surface, using nitrogen-based fertilizers within crop fields seems like an all-around good practice for producers who are noticing nutrient deficiencies in their soils. Yet, after years of ...

Agricultural soils are one of the world's largest sources of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a ...

In recent decades, public attention has focused on the level of market concentration in the processing component of the U.S. agribusiness sector, particularly the highly integrated livestock and ...

As with most tasks on the farm, timing is everything. But in addressing a nitrogen deficiency in corn, when is only half the equation — the other major consideration is how and which nitrogen ...