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New fertilizer placement capabilities for Bednar’s Directo seed drill

Real Agriculture

Manufactured by family-owned Czech company, the seed drill is designed for direct seeding of various crops into uncultivated soil, stubble fields, catch crops or heavy and rocky soils. Bednar will be bringing its new Directo No seed drill to North America for 2024.

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Denali Changes10 Billion Pounds of Organic Matter into Fertilizer

Agwired

Organic recycling company Denali today announced it has transformed over 10 billion pounds of organic byproducts into natural fertilizers, according to its newly released third annual sustainability report detailing findings from 2023. Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5%

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging.

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Coalition Letter regarding hearing on “Improving the Federal Environmental Review and Permitting Processes”

NASDA

WAC represents a large and diverse cross-section of the nations broad business community, including the construction, transportation, real estate, recreation, mining, manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, energy, wildlife conservation, and public health and safety sectors.

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USDA Invests Over $50 million in Domestic Fertilizer Production Expansion, Double Cropping Support

AgWeb Farm Journal

million under the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP), aimed at boosting domestic fertilizer manufacturing and reducing costs for farmers. USDA announced awards totaling $52.6

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Coalition letter Seeking Rulemaking to Modify False or Misleading Statements subsection of the Code of Federal Regulations

NASDA

Should states require manufacturers to label a product in contravention to EPA findings and FIFRA, it places the manufacturer in a no-win situationeither do not comply with a state requirement or comply with the state requirement and include language on a pesticide package that is false and misleading.

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Shockingly Cool: This Startup Makes Fertilizer From Electricity

AgWeb Farm Journal

Nitricity is on a quest to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions via its innovative natural liquid fertilizer manufacturing process. The technology represents a major disruption to the global fertilizer market.