fertilizer

Rising costs for equipment and fertilizer, and a glut of corn and soybeans, were already squeezing farmers’ balance sheets.

Such energy sources would allow the project to produce environmentally clean hydrogen and its derivatives, which in turn are used to generate electricity and produce fertilizer.

There are simpler and safer uses for this wood waste, these critics say: fertilizer for agriculture, wood chips and mulch.

That trade is dominated by US purchases of raw materials for nuclear energy and fertilizers.

A farmer in southwestern Hokkaido named Noboru Ohtaka came up with the idea for a so-called “ion bath” after stepping on a sawdust enzyme fertilizer he’d developed and noticing it felt pleasant.