Fertilizer

In Maryland, Focus on Poultry Industry Pollution

As officials seek new rules on how farmers can spread or store chicken manure, the industry is fighting back.

• Mounds of Waste

Fields of Grain and Losses

Hard times are back on the American farmstead, as the price paid for crops is dropping much faster than the cost of growing them.

Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem

For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what the United States has failed to scrutinize is how much of the chemical has pervaded our own food system.

Healthy Lawns vs. Clean Water?

A proposal to ban the sale of fertilizers with phosphates in Westchester has led to a scientific duel.

New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer’s Blast Threat

A major chemical company has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.

Death in the Gulf of Mexico

The dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi is just one example of the tragic human tendency to treat the oceans as dumping grounds.

Container Gardens Have Their Own Needs

Q. How often does my container garden need to be fertilized?

Peru Guards Its Guano as Demand Soars Again

Surging prices for synthetic fertilizers and organic foods are shifting attention to guano, an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on more than 20 islands off the coast of Peru.

Change We Can Stomach

Farming has the potential to go through the greatest upheaval since the Green Revolution, bringing harvests that are more healthful, sustainable and flavorful.

Let’s Take a Closer Look at That Study on Yak Cheese

When it comes to organics, reliable information on food composition remains sparse.

Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer

Shrinking grain stocks and an increasing appetite for meat have collided with a shortage of fertilizer.

• Seeking Fertile Fields
• The Food Chain: Fertilizer Crisis

Student Faces Federal Charges in School Plot

An 18-year-old straight-A student accused of planning to bomb his high school was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a possible life sentence.

When It Comes to Lawn Care, a Bit Less May Do Us Good

With our zeal for perfection, we’ve sent our turf into a chemically induced coma, an expert says.

Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork

Kitchen gardens are being discovered by a new generation of people who worry about what is in their food and how much fuel was consumed to grow it and to transport it.

It’ll Be the Law Soon: Don’t Fertilize Too Early

THIS will be the last spring in Suffolk County to dump fertilizers on lawns without checking the calendar first.