The environmental and aesthetic virtues of organic agriculture have been overblown. Organic agriculture has been growing rapidly in recent years—by a factor of 10 from 1992 to 2005—but still accounts ...

I have been receiving questions about organic fertilizers. One problem is that many organic fertilizers are incomplete. As you know, a complete fertilizer such as 5-10-15 is 5% Nitrogen, 10% ...

In December 2016, the National Organic Program (NOP) issued guidance 5034-1 that can be interpreted as approving of food waste for use in organic crop production (for example, as an input in ...

Another growing season is fast approaching, and before you can seed you must feed. Now is the time to decide whether to use organic or synthetic fertilizers to enrich the soil. They produce similar ...

Once upon an organic fraud, two grifters sold farmers a $50-million river of fake fertilizer. Fish guts and chicken feathers, juiced with synthetic nitrogen, became the nutrient steroids of the gods.

Organic agriculture has been growing rapidly in recent years—by a factor of 10 from 1992 to 2005—but still accounts for a tiny 0.5 percent of total farmland in the United States, according to the U.S.