Check out the story behind the ‘Love Your Nutrients’ parody video and find out how farmers keep their nutrients for the crop with creator Drew Wieland.
Hear the Farm to Table segment every Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. on WJBC Radio.
White “nurse tanks” are used to apply a form of nitrogen fertilizer called anhydrous ammonia to fields. Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plants and anhydrous ammonia has the highest nitrogen content of any commercial fertilizer. Photo courtesy of Illinois Farm Bureau.
Ever wondered what’s in those white tanks you see out in farm fields during spring or fall? It’s a fertilizer – called anhydrous ammonia – that provides an essential nutrient to plants. Find out more in this week’s Farm Fresh Podcast with local farmer Fred Grieder.
Grieder also serves as president of the McLean County Farm Bureau and shares a few thoughts on the Illinois state budget impasse.
Listen for the Farm to Table segment every Wednesday at 12:45 on WJBC Radio.
