Corn requires a lot of nitrogen, approximately 1.2 pounds of it for every bushel of corn produced. That means that a 200-bushels-per-acre harvest will require 240 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Most of ...

“The goal is to make sure the crop gets enough nitrogen from day one and through the entire season but to do it as efficiently and sustainably as possible in the process,” says Aaron Gingerich, who ...

Nitrogen is a critical element for the plants growing in your garden. They need nitrogen to help them with photosynthesis, the process by which plants get energy from the sun. They also need nitrogen ...

Though the recent central Iowa ban on irrigating lawns has been lifted, there are still many questions about farmers’ use of nitrogen fertilizer. The use of nitrogen fertilizer is correlated with ...