The field trials compared 0, 10, 20 and 40 pounds per acre of sulfur fertilizer applied in spring on continuous corn or corn following soybeans, or in the Dillon’s situation corn following alfalfa.

“Thanks to the 1970 Clean Air Act that Nixon signed, we’re scrubbing a lot of the sulfur out of the coal plants and other pollution sources. “So on the good side, we have less sulfur ...

Runoff is a huge source of risk for all chemicals applied to crops, including sulfur. The most concerning finding, perhaps, is that models show sulfate—another sulfur product typically tied to ...

A bushel of corn contains 0.08 lb. of sulfur in the grain and 0.09 lb. in the stalk, for a total of 0.17 lb. “So 200-bu. corn removes 34 lb. of sulfur, or 102 lb. of sulfate [the form taken up ...