Fertilizer

Minnesota's crop farmers posted their best year in decades in 2012, dodging a nationwide drought with a near-perfect combination: a big harvest and high grain prices. Median incomes surged 50 percent from the previous year, according to an annual report...

The weather changes rapidly and unexpectedly in Iowa. We went from worrying about planting in dry soil to late planting in cold soil. Therefore, farmers and crop consultants are wondering about using starter fertilizer to speed up early corn growth and...

WEST, Texas, May 16 (Reuters) - The cause of the fire that triggered a massive explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant remains undetermined and an investigation is continuing, State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said on Thursday. The West Fertilizer...

The cause of the fire that triggered the deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, last month remains undetermined after a $1-million investigation, officials said Thursday. Although the probe continues, the cause of the disaster may never be...

A fire that led to a devastating explosion a month ago at a fertilizer plant in this small town north of Waco remains undetermined, state and federal investigators said at a news conference Thursday. Fourteen people were killed in the April 17...

WEST, Texas (Reuters) - The cause of a fire that triggered a massive explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant has been ruled undetermined, and investigators have not eliminated the possibility that the fire was set intentionally, state and federal...

A paramedic who responded to the West, Texas, explosion and separately was charged with possessing bomb-making materials has ties to Las Cruces. Bryce Ashley Reed, 31, was indicted this week on a federal charge of possessing materials that could be used...

Billie Sol Estes, a West Texas millionaire, con man and friend of politicians, was found dead Tuesday morning at his home in DeCordova, daughter Pamela Padget said. He was 88. Mr. Estes was a legendary wheeler-dealer who went to prison three times,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials withdrew state backing Friday for a fertilizer plant over concerns about whether its Pakistan-based owners are doing enough at its overseas operations to keep the potentially explosive material from being used...

Within the Eightmile River's 62-square-mile watershed, where about a third of the rural landscape is protected forest and open space, the neighborhoods of beach cottages and year-round homes around Lake Hayward are the nearest thing to a city. "This...

HOUSTON — A paramedic who responded to the devastating fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last month was arrested Friday after federal investigators said they discovered he had the makings of a pipe bomb. It was not clear whether the...

The little crab on the corner of Virginia "Friend of the Chesapeake" Bay license plates that motorists pay $25 annually for became relevant to Henrico County on Wednesday afternoon. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Floating Island Southeast of North...