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Soil should be alive and it is a fact that chemical fertilizers kill the microbial activity in soil. Do we really need ...

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With further changes to the U.S.’ recommended vaccine schedule likely in the year ahead under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, his agency’s recent scrutiny of one vaccine additive ...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the December 2025 print edition of Nursery Management under the headline “Clear stock, strong crops.” Water-soluble fertilizers are blends of highly ...

Mark Mueller is a fourth-generation farmer from Bremer County producing no-till corn, soybeans, alfalfa, specialty beans, forage rye and corn for silage. He serves as the Iowa Corn Growers Association ...

Fortifying soil with fertilizer is an essential step to help your garden yield a bounty of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Plants need nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in the highest amounts. They ...

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 ...

“We’re in very bad shape,” Josh Linville of StoneX says. “Phosphate is in dire straits. And honestly, it needs demand destruction this fall to rebalance the supply and demand. These high prices are ...

The hot long days of mid to late summer can be an especially tough time for orchard trees. Aging canopies often begin to show signs of stress from extreme heat, irrigation deficit, pests, disease, ...