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Straw Can Enhance Soil Fertility and Reduce Ammonia Pollution

Straw incorporation — shredding and burying straw — has been widely promoted as an environmentally-friendly method to increase soil organic carbon stocks and improve soil fertility. Scientists have also found crop straw incorporation could help reduce ammonia volatilization from fertilized fields, which contributes to the formation of fine particles, thereby resulting in serious air pollution. ...

Troy Oakes

Cut straw.