What's Kool about Kula Bio? Transforming the economics and sustainability of soil, for starters. : Biofuels Digest
Today, let’s look at an alternative to carpet-bombing Midwestern corn fields with around 150 pounds per acre of nitrogen fertilizer, in hopes that the plants will take up about half of that, en route to a big corn yield. Leaving aside the debate over what happens to runoff nitrogen as it enters the rivers of America — there’s the question of cost, and could we do better on cost? After all, the cost of nitrogen can head up to nearly 40 cents per pound, and the resulting $60 an acre cost for fertilizer inputs is a target that farmers and technologists look at with longing.
Source: biofuelsdigest.com