XPost: alt.science, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.agriculture
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-glass-fertilizer-beads-sustained-nutrient.html
. . .
Short ... fusing common agricultural fertilizer components
into a sort of "glass bead" apparently works AND can solve
certain long-term problems.
Most fertilizers are very SHORT term. Big dose, and then
a lot of it either runs-off into the local river or just
decomposes.
A "time-release" formulation however ...
Trump wants to do government smaller and cheaper and
more efficiently - but that philosophy can be applied
to OTHER important things too. If the USA wants to be
more self-sufficient then getting more bang for the
buck from agricultural enterprises is an important
thing to achieve.
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