Food is considered organic if it comes from animals that aren?t given antibiotics or growth hormones, or if it?s produced without the use of most conventional pesticides and fertilizers. Changes in the process required to certify products as organic could have prompted some farmers who grow organic crops to forgo the certification, and recent data counted only certified operations. Not only did the amount of land that Ohio farmers devote to certified-organic crops, fruits and vegetables...

Printer Friendly FormatEmail Page. If you've heard about big yield improvements or cost savings from using some new crop production input and wondered whether that product might help boost your profits, the Iowa Soybean Association's On-Farm Network can help you find the answer as it applies to your farm. If you've heard about big yield improvements or cost savings from using some new crop production input and wondered whether that product might help boost your profits, the Iowa Soybean...

The indifference shown by the government of Sindh and the provincial environment protection department towards the danger posed by the unchecked dumping of hazardous chemical waste such as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) in the Malir river area of Karachi is depressing. The indifference shown by the government of Sindh and the provincial environment protection department towards the danger posed by the unchecked dumping of hazardous chemical waste such as...

Gozamen Cooperatives Union, which was unable to sell the fertilizer that it imported in the last fiscal year, seems to have encountered a major shift in luck with the international increase in fertilizer prices. The story is different this year, with Gozamen having kept in stock the fertilizer that it was unable to sell last year. Urea in particular is manufactured using gases, which means it is directly affected by the fluctuations of the oil market. The financial strain that was caused...

Contracts would entail five-year exploration and 20-year production periods, with an optional 10-year production extension. Excess gas could go to create methanol, fertilizer, urea or LNG, among other products. Although this round has sparked a lot of attention, names of companies that have expressed interest cannot be released at this time, Wright said. This round does not entail a formal bidding process but only the submission of informal bids. Subscribing to RigLogix will allow you to...

And it serves as a powerful example of how farmers may need to start adjusting crop variants and field methods to accommodate gradual climate change, agronomists say. The dire situation was brought about by a confluence of metrological events - an unseasonably warm March punched out in early April by a major cold snap. Extension specialists already urge farmers to plant varietals of the same crop instead of a single high-yielding variety to spread the risk out , says Dr. Crop insurance...