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fertilizer

[fur-tl-ahy-zer] / ˈfɜr tlˌaɪ zər /


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The conflict has sent already high U.K. fuel and fertilizer prices even higher, hurting farmers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But it’s especially bad for big agricultural states, where margins were already thinned due to tariffs and fertilizer prices.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Excess fertilizer use can also contribute to eutrophication and other environmental damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The war in Iran has pinched Central Valley farmers — already struggling with water supply and other issues — by driving up fertilizer prices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

From 2000 to 2008, South Korea propped up the North—and bought itself a measure of peaceful coexistence—with huge unconditional gifts of fertilizer and food, along with generous investment.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Shipments of liquefied natural gas, fertilizers and other commodities also remain stuck in the Gulf, choking the economies of Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain—nations that don’t have alternative sea outlets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Chinese producers use American sulfur to manufacture phosphate fertilizers, which supply phosphorus—one of the three primary plant nutrients along with nitrogen and potassium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In agriculture, fertilizers can be enclosed inside PHA beads that gradually release their contents as the plastic breaks down.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

They were looking for a steady source of raw milk at a time when consumers were waking up to the risks of food contaminated by additives, fertilizers and pesticides.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

In place of petrochemical fertilizers, Greenways’s organic acres are fed with compost from a nearby horse farm and by poultry manure.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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