90% of the world’s mined phosphate is used as fertilizer in ag. Morocco supplies 34% of the world’s traded phosphate rock, which is then refined in China, Vietnam and Norway, according to the EU.

Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...

Phosphorus is a critical ingredient of fertilizer, and there is a finite supply of it. The consensus is that we will hit "peak phosphorus" production within a few decades, after which point our ...

Beneficiated phosphate rock is often upgraded into granular diammonium (DAP) or monoammonium phosphate (MAP), which are high-grade, water-soluble crop fertilizers. Single super phosphate (SSP ...

Polson biochemist Ed Gannon nudges a nondescript gray chunk of rock, and then shakes a pile of round pellets into his hand. Both contain phosphate — a nutrient formed millions of years ago that's ...