Farmers deal with all sorts of variables when it comes to getting a crop from planting to harvest, but one of the most important - and least controllable - is the weather.

This research to cut US reliance on fertilizer would have helped farmers and the environment. Why was it halted?

This limits crop yields and reduces food quality ... The University of Adelaide team found that lowering fertilizer pH by ...

That gas — nitrous oxide — mostly comes from spraying chemical fertilizer onto fields. So in practice, achieving the agency’s goal meant figuring out how to grow those crops with ...

That gas — nitrous oxide — mostly comes from spraying chemical fertilizer onto fields. So in practice, achieving the agency’s goal meant figuring out how to grow those crops with ...

The U.S. Department of Energy had a vision: Slash in half the amount of a potent greenhouse gas that enters the atmosphere when growing corn and sorghum for biofuel. That gas — nitrous oxide ...