Scientists have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an essential nutrient—sulfur—is in short supply.

FARGO, N.D. — For fertilizer, farmers usually think about N, P and K, but they also may be lacking in S, for sulfur. “Our focus for fertilizer has long been NPK — nitrogen, phosphate and potassium — ...

Banner image: Rows of grape vines in a Napa Valley vineyard. (Credit: Eve-Lyn Hinckley) Each week during growing season, California winemakers coat their precious grapes with sulfur fungicides to ...

Depending on your soil test results, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are nutrients we supply year after year to our corn crop; however, there is a nutrient we might be overlooking when making ...

Sulfur, an essential nutrient for plants, was as free as air back in the 1980s, drifting down onto farmers' fields from the polluted sky. The nutrient also caused acid rain, however, and it triggered ...

One of the more interesting stories of soil fertility and plant nutrition is that of the element sulfur. Yes, sulfur. Even with its potentially putrid aroma from rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide), the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana State University researchers have linked the use of sulfur fertilizer and soil inoculants ...

Water quality could impact the kind of microbial populations in poultry drinking water lines and lead to the buildup of a ...

As the atmospheric deposition of sulfur has decreased, the use of sulfur fertilizer in Midwestern U.S. agriculture has increased between 1985 and 2015. Sulfur, an essential nutrient for plants, was as ...

Sulfur deficiency could be a big problem in corn this year, North Dakota State University Extension Service soil science specialist Dave Franzen warns. "Sulfur (S) deficiency in corn is as widespread ...