Huffington Post In contrast to dirt, which is without life, and must be supplanted with fertilizers and other chemical inputs as a viable medium for plants to grow, the abundance of soil on our planet also enables more complex forms of life to exist, and to thrive ...
Slate Magazine This knee-jerk sarcasm is no less embarrassing today than it was in 2006, when progressives piled on President Bush for mentioning "human-animal hybrids," among other "egregious abuses of medical research," at the back-end of a State of the Union ...
Houston Chronicle ... regulation, oversight and responsibility, not only in West, where at least 14 people lost their lives, more than 200 were injured and dozens of h...
PR Newswire (press release) China Green Agriculture, Inc. (NYSE: CGA; "China Green Agriculture" or the "Company"), a company mainly produces and distributes humic acid-based compound fertilizers , other varieties of compound fertilizers and agricultural products through its ... and more »
NPR (blog) First, remember that for thousands of years, before the invention of synthetic fertilizer in 1913, many farmers utilized their decomposed sewage, sometimes called "night soil," to replenish the soil with nutrients lost in farming. The Chinese were ... and more »
Business Insider Organic food is grown with manure and other natural fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers , and some people worry that it might be more likely to harbor dangerous bacteria, like salmonella. Studies haven't detected a statistically significant ...
Haaretz ICL sold in the quarter 1.309 million tonnes of potash, a nutrient that improves yields of corn, rice, palm and other crops. This is an increase of 42 percent ...
Fox Business Indonesian fertilizer company Indorama will invest $2.5 billion in new fertilizer plants, Mr. Adesina said on a visit to South Africa for the World Economic Forum on Africa. Dangote ... That was in addition to growing rice and other foodstuffs for use ... and more »
NPR The concepts — such as improvements in irrigation, wiser use of fertilizer and pesticides, development of high-yield grains — were pioneered by agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, and then spread to other nations via Rockefeller ... and more »
