'Win-win': Better fertilizer use by farmers saves money and the environment

By Bonnie Allen · CBC News ·

Dramatic increase in synthetic fertilizers has increased crop yields, but also nitrous oxide emissions

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Jocelyn Velestuk says her family farm near Broadview, Sask., makes a six-figure investment in manufactured fertilizer every year. And she doesn't want it to be wasted in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide.

Increasingly, farmers are adopting more sophisticated fertilizer products and application methods in order to grow the most food, while spending the least amount of money. At the same time, these new approaches can reduce emissions of N2O, a greenhouse gas that is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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