Chemical names of manmade fertilizers?
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Question by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com: Chemical names of manmade fertilizers?
I’m working on a newspaper article about organic agriculture and I’m trying to find a list of chemical names (trinitrotriethylglycophospho-whatever) of commonly used manmade fertilizers to use in my lead paragraph after the opening sentence “Manure happens.” 🙂 If there’s a list of chemical names of manmade fertilizers you can point me to, I would be a happy camper.
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I cannot answer your question, because we are not a farm that uses chemicals. We cannot use the word “organic,” because we refuse to pay the Government to be allowed to use a word in the dictionary.
I can tell you where to find a valuable source for your research, however.
Crack open your local phone book. Look in the blue pages (government stuff). Find the listing for Ag Extension office. You can pay them a visit, and they will be able to help you answer many, many questions like that (if someone else does not answer the question for you on this forum).
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
bohemian_garnet
January 16, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Anhydrous Ammonia = NH3 = a nitrogen fertilizer
Urea = (NH2)2CO = a nitrogen fertilizer
Ammonium Nitrate = NH4NO3 = a nitrogen fertilizer
Potassium Chloride = KCl = a potassium fertilizer
Phosphate = PO43− = a phosphorus fertilizer
Those are the main ones
Bob B
January 16, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Urea, Ammonium sulphate, Ammonium chloride,Ammonium nitrate, Di Ammonium nitrate, Calcium nitrate, Single double or triple super phosphate, Muriate of potash (K2O), etc are all chemical fertilizers.
Ghost Who Walks
January 16, 2012 at 11:21 pm
All chemicals in fertilizers are not made by man, man just mix them.
Compost is made by nature, and by man too
Try liquid worm humus, if you can read spanish, see
http://www.vermiorganicos.com/
California worms are incredible money makers, and do not pollute
estemenm
January 17, 2012 at 12:09 am