Corn is a crop that wants a lot of water and nutrients to grow strong and healthy and to provide a bumper harvest of juicy cobs. These popular and statuesque plants are simple to grow, yet you do need ...

The number of bushels of corn to pay for 1 ton of fertilizer is at historic levels, according to analysis by StoneX Group. If falling corn prices weren’t bad enough, fertilizer prices surged higher to ...

URBANA, Ill. — Corn growers seeking to increase the amount of nitrogen taken up by their crop can adjust many aspects of fertilizer application, but recent studies from the University of Illinois ...

Roughly 25% to 50% of the total commercial nitrogen applied to fields across the state occurs in the fall. Waiting for cooler ...

Healthy growth in any garden depends on a steady supply of nutrients, and nitrogen is one of the most important ones. Without enough of it, plants lose vigor and color, and soil struggles to support ...

Farmers are in the middle of calling input suppliers to get quotes for fall fertilizer, and the prices are shocking. The corn price to fertilizer price ratio on inputs such as phosphate are now the ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Twelve months ago, Overbrook, Kan., farmer Bernie Faust watched as corn prices started taking off and didn't stop climbing until they reached an astounding $8 a bushel. "It's what I ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products and the world’s largest producer of ammonia, and POET LLC, ...

Crop insurance companies are working out protocols for offering PACE, a pilot program in some counties that would reduce some of the risk in applying nitrogen in split applications, which is a ...

A bill in the U.S. Senate would be a step in the right direction toward transparency and competition in this market, writes Mark Mueller.

Surging fertilizer prices are putting pressure on farmers as they start to look to the next planting season, and altering whether the plant corn or soybeans next spring. Much of modern farming relies ...