Applying nitrogen—corn’s most important and trickiest nutrient—doesn’t do a lick of good if it escapes into the air or, even worse, into water sources before plants can use it. Products that slow the ...

While agriculture producers apply nitrogen fertilizer to supply nutrients to their crops, they can’t always keep those nutrients in the soil for maximum efficiency, often losing them into the ...

Corn requires a lot of nitrogen, approximately 1.2 pounds of it for every bushel of corn produced. That means that a 200-bushels-per-acre harvest will require 240 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Most of ...

Measurement of nutrients within wastewater is becoming increasingly important both for end-of-pipe monitoring of discharges and for process control. Current control strategies for optimising the ...

Pathologist Don Huber says crops usually get enough phosphorus, potassium and other common minerals to grow, but often can't draw sufficient micronutrients from the soil to fend off diseases. Such ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This research was conducted to evaluate the use of biological nitrification-denitrification systems as pre-processors for recycling wastewater ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2 (July to December, 2008), pp. 63-67 (5 pages) Abstract: The environmental conditions in Brazil have been contributing to the development ...