When cover crops became a hot topic a few years ago, I tried to relabel them as “forage-covers” because they are multiuse ...

I am often asked, “Can I graze cover crops?” The answer is yes, you can. Sometimes a label we give something pigeonholes it ...

Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil ...

Plants have evolved fascinating partnerships with microbes to capture nitrogen from the air and turn it into a usable form for growth. From legumes hosting bacteria in root nodules to fungi trading ...

Soybean is unique among major grain crops because it can get much of its nitrogen from the atmosphere through biological ...

Most home gardeners reach for a bag of synthetic fertilizer when their vegetables underperform, not realizing that certain ...

Today’s fertilizer price challenges did not begin with the recent conflict in Iran," Eddie Melton at the Kentucky Farm Bureau ...

Scientists are uncovering the genetic switches that let legumes team up with bacteria to pull nitrogen from the air. By tweaking just two amino acids in a key receptor, they’ve made non-legume plants ...

We’ve had a great spell of weather in south Devon. We caught an accumulation of 20mm of rain, which washed in the second dose of nitrogen plus sulphur fertiliser. The wheat is looking a proper shade ...

The disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant share of global petrochemical and ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan. By ...

Scientists found that a small amount of ancient Amazon dark earth soil can help trees grow faster in damaged land.