Nitrogen Fertilisation Articles & Analysis
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If we cut grain-fed meat from our diets, we could free up 50% of cropland and phase out 80% of nitrogen fertiliser use. As our recent Fixing Nitrogen report revealed, excess nitrogen has a huge impact on our rivers and wildflowers and drives nitrous oxide emissions, a greenhouse gas more long-lived than methane. ...
We have previously discussed soil degradation and now turn our attention to agricultural waste and pollution. As the population of the world increases so does the demand for food. This in turn leads to pressure on those in the agricultural sector to increase yields whilst doing so at affordable pricing. This has caused farmers to abandon traditional methods in favour of the intensive farming we ...
European farmers are currently affected by an increase in the price of fertilisers (from an index of 100 in 2005 to 150 in 2012 after it peaked at almost 200 at the end of 2008) that calls into question the future availability of these kinds of inputs. ...
Some of carbon taken up by phytoplankton will sink to the deep ocean, providing sequestration of carbon in the deep ocean. This paper considers nitrogen as the added nutrient and determines the losses in this sequestration process, taking into account a number of mechanisms. ...
We found that leaf ascorbic acid content is strongly influenced by both maturity and soil nutrition, with leaves of seven week old matured plants having the highest content. β-carotene increased with increasing amount of soil nitrogen and with increasing plant age. The loss of both visual and nutritional quality during storage was influenced more by maturity at harvest and the ...
SCIENTISTS at an environmental biotechnology company have developed a biological product that could potentially be used to directly reduce the amount of nitrogen and other fertilisers used by arable farmers. Amnite® A100, created by Stockton-on-Tees-based CBio (Cleveland Biotech), relies on an improved symbiotic relationship between plants and soil ...
Cbio develops biological product which could potentially reduce nitrogen use in farming, increase yields and improve water quality. SCIENTISTS at an environmental biotechnology company have developed a biological product that could potentially be used to directly reduce the amount of nitrogen and other fertilisers used by arable farmers. ...
The anthropogenic nitrogen turnover of Western societies is highly unbalanced. As a consequence, a permanent supply of nitrogen via mineral fertiliser (produced with high energy inputs) and/or imported fodder are required and result in significant impacts of nitrogen emissions on the environment (air, water, soil). Key factors to ...
In some regions the livestock stocking density has increased by more than 10 % mainly due to higher pig stocking density in Denmark, northern Germany, and north-eastern Spain. Mineral fertiliser use declined from 1990–2001: total nitrogen (N) fertiliser consumption inEU-15 decreased by 12 % and total phosphate (P2O5) fertiliser ...