Surging costs for key crop nutrients that growers need could spur sharp cutbacks in fertilizer use. Prices are climbing for phosphate, crucial for plant growth, amid fear that an already difficult ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — The 2024 U.S. presidential election ended two weeks ago with Donald Trump reclaiming the White House. 59% of Central Illinois voters voted for Trump and his running mate J.D.

The fertilizer industry and a raft of farm groups are backing legislation that would add phosphate and potash to the list of minerals considered “critical” to U.S. national security, arguing that too ...

The new White House focus on agriculture suggests the possibility of fresh trade turbulence, with little sign that the White ...

In laboratory experiments, the researchers successfully engineered this change in barley and found that the mechanism worked ...

For years, farmers across South Carolina have used sludge from factories and sewage plants to fertilize the fields where crops grow and cattle graze. Applied to thousands of acres since the 1990s, the ...

FARGO -- With spring and planting around the corner, farmers and grain elevators are faced with warnings about fertilizer shortages -- another potential crisis in which railroads play a part. Recent ...

Plants are among the most intrepid explorers on Earth. Roughly 460 million years ago, the first plants started leaving lakes and rivers and appeared on land. At that time, the surface of Earth was ...

Iowa agriculture groups are calling on President Joe Biden to lift tariffs on fertilizer products, which the groups say are driving up prices and hurting farmers and consumers. In a letter this week, ...

On farms across the country, it's fertilizer that grows the crops that keep grocery shelves stocked and small towns alive. But fertilizer also contains chemicals that can leach into nearby drinking ...

Matt Brincks’ Iowa farm is home to an eye-popping see-saw. In the past decade, his average yields have climbed 30 bushels in corn and 12 bushels in soybeans—all while his fertilizer use has dipped by ...