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Gordon Cope, Contributing Editor, examines how the fertilizer industry must adapt to meet rising supply and demand whilst reducing its environmental impact.

Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric acid, the most critical nutrient in fertilizer that plants use to grow everything we humans eat. The ...

Surrounded by 2,400 hectares of tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables near Fresno, California, the white shipping container looks small. Inside, light flashes through the porthole windows of a ...

Colorado company Agrebon Inc. and North Dakota partners are in discussions with North Dakota's two largest ethanol plants in Casselton and Hankinson to build small-scale nitrogen fertilizer factories ...

The growing global population needs sufficient food. Its production causes overfertilization and increased nitrogen concentration in agriculture, which negatively affects the population, climate, and ...

Nitrogen is not a glamorous topic, but it is essential to plant and food growth. Without it, crops would be vulnerable in climate changes, like drought or excessive rains, and not produce the quantity ...

Using bacteria as a source of crucial nutrients for crops may avoid the environmental problems caused by conventional chemical fertilizers. Bacteria are already being investigated for making ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nitricity, an agtech startup with unique technology to produce renewable nitrogen fertilizer at point-of-use, announced today the close of a $5 million Series Seed ...