you've probably seen the words "nitrate-free" or "no nitrates added" plastered across the packaging. Sounds like a good thing if it means no preservatives or chemicals, just good old-fashioned ...

Nitrates levels in Irish rivers reduced in 2024, according to a report published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA's early insights nitrogen indicator for 2024, published this ...

The Government has outlined the steps it intends to take to secure a renewal of the nitrates derogation for Irish farmers for next year. Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon brought a memo to ...

If too much of it is in the soil, it runs into rivers and causes pollution. The EU nitrates directive allows some 3,000 Irish farmers to apply higher levels of nitrogen to their land in ...

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published water quality nitrates results for a selected number of rivers for 2024. The report is called an ‘early indicator report’ and will build ...

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed changes to the Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) affecting organic manure nitrogen and the nitrates derogation. As part of the ...

With a simple, inexpensive field test kit, you can detect inorganic forms of nitrogen readily available to plants such as nitrate (NO3-), nitrite (NO2-), and ammonium (NH3 ... these kits are ...

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon is today, Tuesday, March 4 expected to bring a memo to cabinet where he will outline a roadmap to secure a renewal of Ireland’s nitrates ...

Strait Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (SLoFE), Strait Institute of Flexible Electronics (SIFE, Future Technologies), Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China ...

Just as they adopted precision technologies to control how much water they use, farmers like Lon Bohn are starting to do the same with fertilizer. "Nitrates have already dropped some. It's going to be ...

Recent studies show the problems have gotten worse. Consuming high levels of nitrates has been linked to a variety of health issues, like cancer, thyroid disease and kidney disorder. Dangerous levels ...