When inorganic fertilizer is applied to a field, microbes in the soil can convert some of its nitrogen to nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a gas with a very high greenhouse warming potential — 1 kilogram ...

It’s usually wise, then, to select a high-nitrogen fertilizer for grass, especially as the fertilizer for new grass. Trees and shrubs need less nitrogen because they produce only one set of ...

The soybean crop has a high requirement for nitrogen; the crop takes up nearly 5 pounds of nitrogen per bushel, and about 75 percent of that is removed in the harvested crop.

Some gardeners recommend using fish emulsion as a foliar spray or as a pre-planting soak for seeds to improve germination ...