- JNT's family roots spell success in trucking business
GLEN ALLAN - In 1979, former custom combiner, Jim Newsom, and his wife, Penny, started Jim Newsom Trucking Inc. (JNT) to provide transportation for the local chemical, fertilizer and seed dealers. The company was started with one truck and an aluminum dump trailer that was driven by Jim's younger brother, ......
- FERTILIZER CONTROVERSY.
Fersan Fertilizer Co., a leading Dominican Republic firm, is in court in San Juan, challenging the decision of the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture to restrict the entry of its fertilizer products, reports Caribbean Business (Dec. 10, 2003). Luis Viyella, Fersan's executive V.P., accuses Puerto Rico of blocking fertilizer imports ......
- Fertilizer use, risk, and off-farm labor markets in
the Semi-Arid Tropics of India.
The primary means of "getting agriculture moving" and raising rural incomes in developing countries has been the diffusion of new production techniques, especially high-yielding varieties of seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. A major impediment to the adoption of such modern inputs is the well-documented risk aversion on the part of ......
- Producing the Elements Vital to Products
The chemical industry has been a vital part of New Jersey since the earlier half of the nineteenth cen tury Pre-Civil War manufacturing of chemical fertilizer was one of the first chemical-related endeavors to hit the Garden State. Around 1870, New Jersey became part of the introduction and growth of ......
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000, by Giovanni Federico. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2005. Cloth, ISBN 069112051X, $45.00. 416 pages.
- Phosphorus-Based Applications of Livestock Manure and the Law of Unintended Consequences
HEADNOTE The application of manure phosphorus at rates above crop uptake has resulted in water pollution for some regions. In response, new manure management standards will require some farms to match manure phosphorus application rates with crop uptake. For some regions, this will lead to more crop acres and a ......
- Green Revolution Myth and Agricultural Reality?
A litany of mythical criticisms of the Green Revolution has so often been repeated and so widely disseminated that the critics' slogans have been accepted by many educated observers as unchallengeable fact. One of the slogans of critics of the Green Revolution is that the HYV (high-yielding variety) seeds require ......