Russell Taylor of Live Earth explains how humates improve soil health, water efficiency, and nutrient use as California ...

AgNet News Hour covers California’s .....budget, Live Earth humate soil solutions, and USDA’s Malaysia trade mission ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

Mark Mueller is a fourth-generation farmer from Bremer County producing no-till corn, soybeans, alfalfa, specialty beans, forage rye and corn for silage. He serves as the Iowa Corn Growers Association ...

The Fertilizer Institute is calling for a national U.S. policy to increase domestic production of crop nutrients as farmers battle soaring input costs and turbulent global supply chains. The effort ...

Surging costs for key crop nutrients that growers need could spur sharp cutbacks in fertilizer use. Prices are climbing for phosphate, crucial for plant growth, amid fear that an already difficult ...

Have you heard of using cricket shells to improve crop yields? If so, you’ve heard of biostimulants. These natural materials, designed to nurture plant health, have become more popular recently, ...

Kyle Anderson, left, an Ames entrepreneur, and Santanu Bakshi, an Iowa State scientist, examine a pyrolysis pilot plant at Iowa State's BioCentury Research Farm. The equipment heats biomass to produce ...

Fertilizer prices are surging, eroding American farmers’ profits and adding pressure on the Trump administration to slash tariffs on key crop nutrients. Tightening supplies and tariff concerns have ...

UC Davis scientists have developed wheat plants that can stimulate the production of their own fertilizer. (Getty) Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that ...

Synthetic fertilizer is a modern wonder, helping to feed billions of people, but it’s not without its costs. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields has led to dead zones in oceans around the world, where ...