Sentences with phrase «fertilizer use»

An ever - expanding global population will require an increase in food production and crop yields, and that is only going to be possible through higher fertilizer use in agriculture.

For this reason, it's important to figure out where — and by how much — farmers can afford to cut back on their nitrogen fertilizer use.

• Manage the amount of fertilizer they use to ensure it is applied appropriately.

The Chinese government also plans to achieve zero growth in fertilizer use by 2020.

The good news: if industrial emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected.

This knowledge can help farmers optimize fertilizer use and maximize profits.

It incorporates a performance standard approach and credits reductions in both synthetic and organic fertilizer use.

Adding hydrogen to nitrogen to create ammonia for fertilizer uses about 1 % of the world's energy.

More efficient fertilizer use can reduce the transport of excessive nitrogen and phosphorus.

If we could do that, we might be able to improve crop productivity and reduce or eliminate fertilizer use.

They tracked many variables related to wheat cultivation, including fertilizer use, crop rotation, and nutrient content.

Also, fertilizer used in wheat production can cause major water pollution problems, which can then negatively impact the trees and the bees.

The Delta Institute was presented with the Innovation award for the registration on ACR of the first U.S. fertilizer management project, a Michigan pilot currently in verification for reducing nitrogen fertilizer use on corn.

And his critics agree with him on one matter: the paper points to the importance of reducing fertilizer use in China.

If it is replaced by other farmers boosting their yields more than they otherwise would, spurred by higher prices, you may get a benefit because higher yields absorb more carbon (but it comes at some greenhouse gas costs from fertilizer use and the like).

Urease inhibitors may be effective in increasing fertilizer use efficiency especially where broadcast application is required, Grant (1998).

Now, a new study has tacked unnaturally acidic soil onto the list, caused by excessive fertilizer use over the past 30 years.

There hasn't been much research on optimal levels of fertilizer use for intercropping sorghum and peanuts in these areas.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

Chemical fertilizer use for the past 50 years has produced a huge greenhouse gas burden through its manufacturing, transport and routine escape into the atmosphere from agricultural fields.

As fertilizer used on Midwestern corn and soybeans runs off fields and into nearby streams, it ends up, eventually, in the Mississippi River.

The researchers suggested widespread nutrient management strategies that link inorganic fertilizer use with the application of manure for crop production.

There is a positive feedback cycle between fertilizer use and population growth).

More on Biodiversity: Images from the Edge Rewilding Childhood Reader's Photos of Backyard Nature Frog and Toad are Friends: A Biodiversity Story Excessive Fertilizer Use Decreasing Grassland Biodiversity: Scientists Discover Why Reducing Biodiversity Increases Risk that Diseases will Jump from Animals to People Los Amigos: Volunteers Vacationing with Scientists

Almost every organic farmer I know of uses extensive amounts of animal manures — and sometimes other animal byproducts like fish, blood and bone meal — to replace the fossil - fuel based fertilizers used by conventional farmers.

However, there is an extensive literature showing that deep banding of N fertilizer improves fertilizer use efficiency compared to surface incorporation.

There is an extensive literature on the improvement in N fertilizer use efficiency achieved by deep banding in zero tillage systems, but no studies on N2O emissions.

World fertilizer use climbed from 14 million tons in 1950 to 177 million tons in 2010, helping to boost the world grain harvest nearly fourfold.

Result: much more fertilizer used; more fossil fuel energy used than obtained from ethanol.

When I was a kid, there was a very simple computer game (we played on teletypes) that simulated the relationship between farm fertilizer use, algae and bacterial growth, and fish population.

Today, agricultural experts estimate that in many parts of China fertilizer use can be slashed by up to 60 %.

On top of that, many hybrids are selectively bred to survive low levels of magnesium and most conventional fertilizers use nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, and do nothing to replenish magnesium levels.

In the Science report, Mr. Vitousek and colleagues compared fertilizer use in three corn - growing regions of the world: northern China, western Kenya and the upper Midwestern United States.

The company spent millions to demonstrate the trait can work in other crops, and Rey boasts it can slash fertilizer use in half without affecting yield.

Tom Szaky is the founder of TerraCycle, a New Jersey based company that makes fertilizer using worms and produces retail products from recycled goods.

Nitrogen - based synthetic fertilizers, which made up more than half (52 %) of all U.S. cotton fertilizer use, are also considered a major contributor to increased nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, which are 310 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas.

Phosphate Free: Some communities request that the lawn fertilizer you use is free of phosphates.

Phosphorus in human waste was responsible for about 54 percent of the global load, while agricultural fertilizer use contributed about 38 percent.

The good news is if combustion emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected, according to the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

In India, a broad increase in fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammonia.

Less fertilizer use also has an economic impact.

But agricultural activities such as animal husbandry and fertilizer use generate ammonia, which can be converted to fine particles in the air, he explained.

Neuropathologist Suzanne de la Monte, who led the research, compared disease - related mortality rates with nitrite fertilizer use, fast - food sales, and meat sales in the United States during the past 40 years.

LONG - LASTING FERTILIZER Nitrogen fertilizer used on crops such as winter wheat (shown) can remain in soil for decades.

Fertilizers used only on conventional farms make cadmium more available to the roots of plants.

phosphate fertilizers used in nut and grain production increase the concentration of phytic acid in the bran, which limits the amount of magnesium we can absorb from nuts and grains.

Spirulina grown in the US can be organic and US Spirulina is probably the best choice these days... a few years ago the FDA changed the regulations to make earth and aqua organic standards the same... the organic, natural fertilizer used for years in cultivating Spirulina, because it had a high sodium content and would not be useful in soil based on the sodium level was eliminated from the organic standards... in the water, spirulina does not absorb the sodium....

The Neem fertilizers used in conjunction with Green Planet's Neem pesticides enable Nigerian food producers to adopt fully organic farming.

The United States has trimmed excess fertilizer use since a peak in the 1990's, the scientists write, but runoff and releases from livestock operations still create big water problems, most notably the Gulf of Mexico «dead zone» resulting from nutrients washing from fields and livestock around the Mississippi River watershed.