Fertilizer Food Nutrient Pollution 
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 13, 2024
In August, Rich Earth released a Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine , available for free on their website. I really dont think theres actually any food safety concerns. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots. Its a matter of perception.
ATTRA
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Rich Earth Institute has a new publication available free, online, Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine. The Rich Earth Institute reports that interest in urine nutrient reclamation has been surging, driven by spiking synthetic fertilizer prices, global supply disruptions, and increasing regulations on aquatic nutrient pollution.
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Farmbrite
AUGUST 23, 2023
Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Soil health is not just about organic matter content or nutrient levels in your fields or garden beds; it's also about how well your plants are able to access those nutrients and build strong roots that can thrive in healthy soil.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 9, 2024
(Photo credit: NASA) At the root of a lot of the [Salton Sea] difficulties are nutrient inputs that are coming in from agriculture, said Tim Lyons, a geochemist at UC Riverside, at the summit. Due to this agricultural runoff, the Salton Sea is hypereutrophic, a term scientists use to describe water bodies that contain excessive nutrients.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The solution didn’t appear until some time later, when another member of the wool industry gave her an idea: Turn the wool into pellet fertilizer. Hagen began researching one possible avenue for unused wool that wouldn’t require scouring: wool pellets for fertilizer. Left: Maksymiuk’s flock. Wool makes sense as a soil amendment.
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