Some 70 miles away, farmer Bill Kellogg is trying to do something about the chronic algae blooms in America's southernmost Great Lake. Instead of scattering fertilizer atop his fields, Kellogg now ...

a surveyor by trade, who noticed a lush grove of tomato plants by a riverbank ... extended well into the 1960s. In 1955, Kellogg Sr. acquired Globe Fertilizer Co., which enabled him to reach ...