fertilizer

A research and development site in Boone is using solar power, air and water to make farm fertilizer. The group behind the project calls it “green ammonia” because it does not rely on fossil fuels, like most synthetic fertilizers.

At the Farm Progress Show in Boone Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the next phase for a bird flu vaccine for dairy cows and more funding to expand domestic fertilizer production. The former Iowa governor also discussed the USDA’s forecasts for a downturn in on-farm income for 2024.

Statehouse Democrats have some questions about the future of a Lee County fertilizer plant and its employees after it was acquired by a Koch Industries subsidiary.

The Iowa Attorney General is looking into why fertilizer prices are increasing. The price of nitrogen- and phosphate-based fertilizers have spiked by some 200 – even 300 percent. Fertilizer companies blame a variety of things, like the increase in natural gas costs and Hurricane Ida.

When it rains on Joe Rothermel’s central Illinois farm, most of the water drains into the nearby East Branch Embarras River. There, it begins a journey...

Iowa State University researchers may have discovered a more environmentally-friendly fertilizer that could avoid the problems other fertilizers have with…