Some of the other fertilizers in the group like Potash ( POT), Mosaic ( MOS), and Agrium ( AGU) appear to be coming up the right side of shorter basis.
In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
The pipeline is part of plans by Sirius Minerals to extract the ore, used in fertilizers, from beneath the North York Moors National Park.
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Finally, once the biofuel crops have been planted, grown and harvested -- often with the direct involvement of fossil fuels in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and petrol to power farm equipment -- they then have to go through a distillation and fermentation process to actually turn them into fuel.
General Barbero has worked hard with other federal agencies to curb the availability of ammonium-nitrate fertilizers made in Pakistan, since traces of the agricultural chemical have shown up repeatedly in the aftermath of Taliban bombings.
Many tributaries running through the forest had dried up due to wide-spread clear-cutting and they said fertilizers were polluting the water.
With sales way up, the company expanded into fertilizers, plastic sheets, food processing and solar water heaters.
They squander land, damage plant and animal species through the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides, and waste huge amounts of water.
That excludes things like the carbon footprint of fertilizers, harvesting and distribution.
The focus on data is intentional: While other classes teach ag students how to repair combines or learn the proper chemical mixes of common fertilizers, students in agricultural economist Kevin Moore's "Returning to the Farm" class create business plans using financial information from their own family farms.
Despite the giant gap in the public mind between organic farming, which bans artificial pesticides and fertilizers, and gene modification, the couple was never exactly star-crossed.
Prior to the "Special Period" Cuba had been a heavy user of oil-based chemical fertilizers, and much of the land was heavily degraded, requiring years of careful manuring to restore fertility.
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Their goal: crops that limit the use of pesticides and fertilizers while delivering more food per acre planted.
Indeed, Bt corn and other engineered crops have generally drawn rave reviews from farmers and agronomists for increasing crop yields and reducing the need for pesticides and fertilizers.
Boarding for migrant laborers is usually free--often a spot on the farmer's veranda or in a shed with fertilizers or on a rooftop, next to the drying cotton.
In late December 1988, in a hasty and ill-considered action, the Reagan Administration approved two separate requests by the Honeywell Corporation and by Baileys Controls to export high technology to the Soviet Ministry of Mineral Fertilizers (MMF).
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The likely impact includes forest conversion to agricultural land, a drop in biological diversity as a result of monocropping and the massive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, unsustainable levels of water abstraction and a greater risk of water-related conflicts with local communities and neighbouring States sharing the same transboundary river systems.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
At first Kuan-Shu instructed farmers about green cultivation and the dangers of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
But he said that the government would need to control expenses, especially on subsidies such as diesel and fertilizers - mainly non-urea, and expand the tax base to generate more revenue to be able to meet fiscal objectives over the long run.
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The company operates in three segments: Fertilizers, Industrial Products, and Performance Products.
Precision agriculture is saving farmers across the country millions of dollars annually and dramatically reducing the impact of large-scale agriculture on the environment by avoiding unnecessary application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.
Meanwhile compatriot, Ioan Niculae, returns with a fortune buffetted by growth in agriculture and fertilizers, both strong sectors across the globe.
From it come the nitrates used in SQM's specialty fertilizers and chemicals.
Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Cotton crops require huge amounts of water, and the farms that grow them use lots of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
The more animals there are being raised for human consumption, the more demand there is for feed crops, fertilizers, farming equipment, seeds and arable land.
Everyone has to eat and, to grow the foods we need, we have to use nitrogen fertilizers.
According to the report, which was compiled by more than two dozen scientists, the 2011 runaway bloom was fueled by phosphorus-laden fertilizers that were swept from corn and soybean fields during heavy rainstorms.
The response to depleted soil is to heap on more synthetic fertilizers, which are made primarily with petroleum (not exactly a price-secure resource).
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