soil health
Manganese biochar steered paddy soil microbes toward keeping nitrate as ammonium, a lab result that could one day trim fertilizer losses.
USDA conservation funding will support 42 projects aimed at improving soil health, reducing nutrient losses and keeping agricultural and forestland productive.
Sofinnova Partners led the IMIO biologicals seed round, which funds a Chicago headquarters, lab and biomanufacturing site as Re-Gen reaches 100-plus customers.
Nitrous oxide emissions fall up to 48% with reduced tillage in organic grain transition, study finds
Nitrous oxide emissions peaked in the corn phase of a soybean-wheat-corn rotation, where organic nitrogen inputs collide with tillage.
The saline soil trial more than doubled available phosphorus without extra NPK, as microbes, cow manure and silica reshaped the root zone.
Ozone sped soil nitrification only in a high-ozone year, while partial manure substitution needed a full season before it lifted nitrogen turnover.
Falling crop nutrient density is tied to yield-first breeding, fertilizer regimes and degraded soils, and GLP-1 drugs may create a market for fixing it.
Space agriculture review shortlists fungi to unlock 3 scarce nutrients in Martian and lunar regolith
Space agriculture could lean on Trichoderma and mycorrhizal fungi to free phosphorus and tame toxic metals, though no test has yet used real regolith.
Saline soils nitrogen losses run 61% above normal, yet ten proven practices could save 2.5 million tonnes of nitrogen a year.
A new AI model shows most farms use just 3.1% of their soil’s modeled carbon storage potential.
The three-strain bacterial inoculant colonizes the root zone to improve water retention, delivering 14.5% heavier fruit in watermelon drought trials.
The world’s first bio-based nitrification inhibitor reaches Northern Europe through Fertiberia’s Dutch subsidiary Van de Reijt.
Protists and nematodes outperformed synthetic nitrogen in boosting plant growth by reshaping soil bacterial communities.
Chinese researchers used atmospheric-pressure plasma jets to supercharge microbial biofertilizers, producing 79% more shoot biomass in rice trials.
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