They believed that applications in western Canada were less likely, given the relatively good efficiency of
nitrogen fertilizer use in this region (by such techniques as banding).
An analysis of any food item must include the degree of processing, transportation mode and distances, presence of red meat, amount
of nitrogen fertilizer used, manure application, and storage method.
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.
The finding that NOx emission rates will increase with warming temperatures also highlights the urgency of taking steps to better
manage nitrogen fertilizer use in a warming world, he says.
In China, where fertilizer manufacturing is government - subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005,
while nitrogen fertilizer use increased a dramatic 271 percent, according to government statistics.
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.
On a 40 - acre plot where he grows corn and soybeans in rotation, Ortner has worked with Michigan State University researchers for the past several years to reduce
his nitrogen fertilizer use.
With the help of the Delta Institute and the Climate Trust, nonprofits focused on market - driven emissions reduction efforts, offsets are paid out to farmers when they document reductions in
their nitrogen fertilizer use.
Studies show that only about 30 percent of
the nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture are actually taken up by the crops they are intended to feed.
Simulations revealed that California's Central Valley had the highest emissions of NOx gases from soils in the state (left), closely matching the regions with the highest rate of
nitrogen fertilizer use (right).
Brazil imports about 70 % of
the nitrogen fertilizers used in the country.
Southern Asia contains some 90 % of the world's rice fields and more than 60 % of the world's
nitrogen fertilizer use.
The research, conducted by Bayani Cardenas, associate professor of hydrogeology, and Brian Kiel, a Ph.D. candidate in geology at the university's Jackson School of Geosciences, provides valuable information to those who manage water quality efforts, including the tracking of
nitrogen fertilizers used to grow crops in the Midwest, in the Mississippi River network.
Third,
nitrogen fertilizer use should be avoided or minimized because of its global warming and other environmental impacts.