Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizers needed to grow cereal crops. The discovery could save farmers in the United States ...

More information: Tamara Serrano et al, Nitrogen Fertilizer Effects on Hemp Biomass Production Detected by Drone-based Spectral Imaging, HortScience (2025). DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI18264-24 ...

Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

Growing cereal crops with less fertilizer Discovery could reduce nitrogen pollution, save farmers billions Date: August 7, 2022 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: Researchers have ...

Scientists use gene-editing in cereal crops to boost yields without nitrogen fertilizer Published 1:00 pm Wednesday, August 10, 2022 By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press ...

More sustainable agriculture by global redistribution of nitrogen fertilizer Date: October 16, 2023 Source: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Summary: The growing global population needs ...

The bulk of such agrochemicals, designed to deliver targeted nutrients based on soil and crops, are imported, with China ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A computational study on nitrogen inputs to the Mississippi River Basin from the 1950s to the 1990s suggests that better use of the fertilizer – such as not over-applying it ...

That helps the microbes last in the field. [Photo: Kula Bio] Farmers spray the mix onto crops in the same way they’d use synthetic fertilizer.