A promising new form of ammonium phosphate fertilizer has been field-tested. The fertilizer, struvite, offers a triple win for sustainability and crop production, as it recycles nutrients from ...

With urea ammonium nitrate prices on the rise, now is a good time for farmers to check their nitrogen management strategies for best environmental and fiscal applications.

“Forever chemicals” are everywhere — water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans — researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are trying to figure out how they got ...

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 ...

Struvite, shown here, is a slow-release fertilizer capable of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus leaching relative to monoammonium phosphate, the leading fall-applied fertilizer in the Midwest. In a new ...