Some soybean farmers have developed a new kind of fertilizer that could help the environment. Clean Green fertilizer is made of 100% soybeans. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Tracy Samilton reports:
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Some soybean farmers have developed a new kind of fertilizer that could
help the environment. Clean Green fertilizer is made of 100% soybeans.
The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Tracy Samilton reports:
Many chemical fertilizers have high phosphorus levels. Phosphorus can
drastically alter the ecosystems of lakes or streams. Michigan Soybean
farmers have developed a new fertilizer made entirely of soybeans to
address the problem. Clean Green has 7% nitrogen which is good for lawns
but 0% phosphorus. Mike Score of the Michigan State University
agricultural extension program tested Clean Green on lawns and found the
product worked.
“So then we went on to compare Clean Green with chemical
fertilizers that are available on the marketplace today and we looked at
chemicals with and without phosphorus. And we found that Clean Green
worked equal to or better than chemical fertilizers that are on the
market.”
Score says people have to use more Clean Green per application on their
lawns than chemical fertilizers. But they only have to apply the product
twice, once in the spring and once in the fall, rather than four times a
year like conventional fertilizer. For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium,
I’m Tracy Samilton.