Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric acid, the most critical nutrient in fertilizer that plants use to grow everything we humans eat. The ...

Today, nitrogen fertilizer is made in fossil fuel-fired factories that can be thousands of miles from the nearest farms, but one California company is working on a game-changer. It produces fertilizer ...

Ammonia sits at the heart of modern agriculture and heavy industry, but the way the world makes it today is one of the most ...

Nitrogen is not a glamorous topic, but it is essential to plant and food growth. Without it, crops would be vulnerable in climate changes, like drought or excessive rains, and not produce the quantity ...

Using bacteria as a source of crucial nutrients for crops may avoid the environmental problems caused by conventional chemical fertilizers. Bacteria are already being investigated for making ...

In 2023, Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy at Purdue University, partnered with Corteva’s Nutrient Maximizer Sales Team on trials of Instinct NXTGEN nitrogen stabilizer. “Nitrogen is a farmer ...

A team of researchers at MIT has now developed a novel approach to producing ammonia without the reliance on traditional ...

The growing global population needs sufficient food. Its production causes overfertilization and increased nitrogen concentration in agriculture, which negatively affects the population, climate, and ...

A research team demonstrates that China can maintain food security while sharply reducing nitrogen pollution by cutting agricultural nitrogen inputs by over one-third.