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Economic truths have forced some producers to cut back on nutrients for their forage, but a little phosphorus can go a long ways
The Pelly Lake Watershed Management project will help control spring runoff, boost hay yields, reduce nutrient loads and produce biofuel
Rail problems this winter and two nitrogen plant breakdowns tightened N and P supplies
Right source, rate, time and place are the best guides for staying on the straight and narrow
Rising meat consumption, and calorie intakes are complicating efforts to conserve essential resource
Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fuelled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. Between 1961 and 2007, rising meat consumption and total calorie intakeBrown University study finds deficient Brazilian soils hold on to phosphorus while rich Iowan farmland is spoiling waterways even though much less of the fertilizer is being applied
A new American study has turned a long-held belief on its head by discovering that — in one respect, anyways — growing soybeans in Iowa is environmentally worse than growing them in the former Amazon rainforest. Researchers from Brown University found Iowa farmers are doing more harm to waterways than their counterparts in Matto Grosso,
