Learn how to grow crops, use fertilizer, remove weeds and beetles, and how to automate watering them in Luma Island.

This story originally appeared at Ambrook Research. Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate “P4FARMS” pulls into Jesse Kayan’s ...

When it comes to feeding your crop, you want nutrients readily available when they’re needed. After selecting nutrient rates, your next decision is the vehicle you’ll use to fertilize your crop.

Reducing fertilizer inputs not only lessens the environmental impact of agriculture but also puts money back in the pockets ...

These are the surefire ways that you can maximize your crop yields without having to expand your farmland too quickly and without the need to buy more seeds. Fertilizing your crops is the best way ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Corn crops have a voracious appetite for nitrogen. Purdue University scientists are investigating ...

The rest comes from the soil, either from that left over from fertilizing the previous corn crop or from soil organic matter mineralization carried out by soil microbes. Nitrogen fixation takes a ...

Corn, one of the most common crops grown in the Midwest, requires a lot of fertilizer, which can have environmental consequences. The University of Missouri and its research partners are now studying ...

Research at the University of Missouri explores pig manure as a corn fertilizer for environmental benefits. Initial results show promising yield outcomes.