Knowing how to add nitrogen to soil is one of the most important steps you can take to keep your garden healthy and thriving! It’s the edge you need to help give you high yields without using ...

A microscopic enzyme could be the key to helping nitrogen fertilizers stick better to the soil and prevent run-off that causes harmful algal blooms, according to a new review article published by a ...

Corn requires a lot of nitrogen, approximately 1.2 pounds of it for every bushel of corn produced. That means that a 200-bushels-per-acre harvest will require 240 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Most of ...

Waiting until soil temperature drops and stays below 50°F is crucial to safely apply fall anhydrous ammonia. It’s also critical to use the correct nitrogen stabilizer. As farm budgets have tightened, ...

Researchers have developed a simpler pathway, involving a newly known minimum of seven genes that allow the plant cell to ...

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high ...

Humans weren’t the first organisms on this planet to figure out how to turn the abundance of nitrogen in the atmosphere into a chemically useful form; that honor goes to some microbes that learned how ...