Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Nitrogen is often the most limiting nutrient in growing plants. When deficient, plant yields and quality are reduced. However ...

Field trials on nitrogen-fixing microbes in corn have yet to show reliable benefits, but work continues on their potential of reducing corn's high demand for the nutrient.

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that – after more than two decades – biodiversity growth has ...

Turfgrass—including sports fields, roadside ditches and residential lawns—makes up 40 million acres of the United States' ...

Humans have used their own waste as fertilizer for thousands of years, with varying degrees of success. In King County, it’s ...

To improve the health of the soil you'll need to take a sample, read its nutrients and pH level, then enhance it with whatever additive (amendment) it needs to bring the soil into a healthy balance.

Insect frass, a waste product from farming insects like mealworms and crickets, is gaining recognition as an organic soil amendment. It consists of insect waste, uneaten feed, and molted skins and is ...

Insect droppings, commonly known as insect frass, may seem useless and downright disgusting, but scientists found that this ...

By Gabriella Sotelo for Sentient. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Illinois News Connection reporting for the ...

Longer more diverse rotations of crops fertilized with livestock manure have many environmental benefits, but carbon ...

Nitrogen pollution can degrade soils and inadvertently fertilise trees ... the Schoof administration now has to ensure that nitrogen levels fall below harmful thresholds in at least half of ...