Fertilizers contain nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), indicated by three numbers representing their percentage by weight. Nitrogen promotes leafy growth, phosphorus aids energy ...

Russian Explosive Makers Use Fertilizer Firms to Blunt Sanctions Moscow maintains war effort via acids from EuroChem, UralChem Fertilizer groups are less hit by sanctions due to food needs ...

Five farmers who live in Johnson County are in a legal battle with the EPA and the fertilizer manufacturer, Synagro Technologies Inc. and its Texas subsidiary, saying the fertilizer contains ...

Crop fertilizers are a major source of pollution, as the chemicals make their way out of the soil and into the natural environment. Scientists are now working on a possible solution to that ...

Russia and Ukraine punched above their weight in the fertilizer market, especially for nitrogen and potash, because of their resource advantages and production scale. Russia was the world’s top ...

Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there’s a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants.

Your plants might love fertilizers containing nutrient-rich sewage sludge, but treating your garden or lawn with these products could be exposing you to “forever chemicals.” Some commercially ...

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the first ...

As farmers begin to rein in production costs, big ticket items such as fertilizer naturally get a lot of scrutiny. Agronomists at this year’s Farm Journal Corn and Soybean College say that’s ...

CERTAIN FERTILIZERS CAN HURT WATERWAYS AND THE ANIMALS, DEPENDING ON THEM. WESH 2’S DAVE MCDANIEL EXPLAINS WHY SOME INGREDIENTS HURT THE ENVIRONMENT MORE THAN THEY HELP YOUR LAWN. WE DON’T USE ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fertilizer imports last year expanded by almost a fifth to a three-year high of over 2.5 million metric tons as global prices of the farm input declined at a double-digit pace.

Kim Nace is co-founder of the Rich Earth Institute, an organization developing ways to turn human urine into fertilizer. "People are usually a little taken aback," she said, "but then I just kinda ...