Phosphorus is an essential soil nutrient plants need to thrive. Phosphorus is a vital mineral for healthy plant growth. Unlike carbon dioxide or oxygen, which plants receive from the air, plants ...

Phosphorus is one of the 17 essential nutrients that make up a healthy, balanced diet for your plants. It plays a role in ...

While phosphorus is relatively immobile in the soil, it’s even harder for the plant to use in cool and wet soil conditions. Making phosphorus available for plant uptake leads to healthy root ...

One upside? Weeds can provide important clues about the quality of your garden soil, such as its pH level. "Why do we care ...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for optimum plant growth. However, the continued application of manures and fertilizers to soils has led to an accumulation of P in many Delaware soils to ...

India's soil degradation crisis threatens food security, but natural farming and bio-based inputs offer sustainable solutions ...

Tasmanian dairy farmers trial microbes across 500 hectares of land with the help of a "top-notch" soil biologist to reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilisers such as urea.

To find out if the white phosphorus has left a lasting impact on their soil, farmers are digging in - literally - and sending samples to Dr. Rami Zurayk, a soil chemist at AUB.

“You always have outside pressure,” said Andy DeVries, who’s been using RhizoSorb at DeVries Farms in Iowa. “It takes a lot ...

A team led by Prof. Zhenke Zhu from Ningbo University analyzed 261 soil samples across China to systematically compare the ...