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In an open field, the soil forgives mistakes. It buffers pH swings, holds a reserve of nutrients, and releases them slowly through microbial activity. Inside a greenhouse, especially a soilless one, none of that safety net exists. Every nutrient the plant receives...
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Across much of the Middle East, North Africa, and the world’s irrigated drylands, the water that keeps farms alive is also slowly working against them. It carries salt. It runs alkaline. It is loaded with bicarbonate. And it quietly wrecks fertilizer programs...
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Two fertilizer bags sit side by side. Both say “NPK 20-20-20 with micronutrients.” One costs 40 percent more than the other. A buyer who only reads the front of the bag has no way to tell why, and usually picks the cheaper one. A buyer who knows how to...
Brazil
Brazil consumes about 40 million tons of fertilizer per year. Roughly 85 percent of it is imported. Supply is concentrated in a small number of mega-suppliers, mostly out of Russia, Belarus, Morocco, and China. When global commodity fertilizer markets seize up, as...
Peru
Peruvian blueberries don’t grow in soil. They grow in pots filled with coconut coir, drip-irrigated several times a day, with every nutrient delivered through the fertigation tank. The entire industry is built on this substrate-based production system, and...
