About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of optimizing nitrogen fertilizer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture.

This episode was originally aired on April 25, 2025 and it was a top performing episode on Farm+Food+Facts. U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action established an independent scientific working group to analyze the potential for U.S. agriculture to collectively reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and possibly achieve a state of negative emissions, or emitting fewer total GHGs than are sequestered. The resulting report, “Potential for U.S. Agriculture to be Greenhouse Gas Negative,” was...

Topics covered

• nitrogen fertilizer
• greenhouse gas emissions
• sustainable agriculture

Keywords

• fertilizer optimization
• GHG emissions
• agriculture

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