Abstract: Certain metal complexes of certain substituted pyrazole compounds are employed as the active nitrification inhibitor in the presence of reduced nitrogen fertilizers. Compositions containing these complexes can be applied to the surface of soil and can remain on said soil surface for up to 3 days or more without mechanical incorporation into the soil and retain at least about 70 percent of the pyrazole in the complex in the composition.

Abstract: Certain metal salts of certain substituted pyrazole compounds are employed as the active nitrification inhibitor in the presence of reduced nitrogen fertilizers. Compositions containing these salts can be applied to the surface of soil and can remain on said soil surface for up to 3 days or more without incorporation into the soil and retain at least about 70 percent of the pyrazole in the salt in the composition.

Abstract: A method of converting sewage sludge solids into dense controlled release, attrition resistant fertilizer agglomerates is disclosed. The method is carried out by forming a fertilizer premix from dry sewage sludge solids and uncondensed liquid ureaform. Acidic material, preferably phosphoric acid, is distributed throughout the premix to bring the pH to between 4 and 6, and the premix is heated for 5 to 60 minutes to 120.degree. C. The heated premix is compressed between solid surfaces at pressures between 500 and 10,000 pounds per square inch to form agglomerates.The method is preferably carried out on a continuous basis using a heated blender and conveyor for blending and heating the fertilizer premix containing the sewage sludge solids, liquid ureaform, and phosphoric acid. Continuous compacting rollers are used to convert the premix to fertilizer agglomerates which may be readily broken up and screened to any desired fertilizer particle size range.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel urease inhibited fertilizer compositions containing urea and a urease inhibiting amount of novel poly-phosphorodiamide compounds.

Abstract: Novel urease inhibiting phosphoroamide compounds and urea based fertilizer compositions including such compounds, and methods and compositions for inhibiting the activity of urease through use of a urease inhibiting effective amount of one or more of the aforementioned phosphoroamide compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel urease inhibited fertilizer compositions containing urea and a urease inhibiting amount of one or more aryl phosphoric triamide and aryl phosphorodiamidate compounds, and to methods and compositions for inhibiting the activity of urease through use of such compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel urease and/or nitrification inhibited fertilizer compositions containing; and methods and compositions for inhibiting urease and/or nitrification through use of a urease and/or nitrification inhibiting amount of novel phosphoric triamide compounds.

Abstract: Novel urease inhibiting aminophenol compounds and urea based fertilizer compositions including such compounds, and methods and compositions for inhibiting the activity of urease through use of a urease inhibiting effective amount of one or more of the aforementioned aminophenol compounds.

Abstract: Novel urease inhibiting phosphorodiamide compounds, urea based fertilizer compositions including such compounds, and methods and composition for using said compounds to inhibit the catalytic activity of urease.

Abstract: Certain polychloromethyl-substituted benzene and naphthalene compounds are useful for suppressing the nitrification of ammonium nitrogen in soil.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilized fertilizer solution, especially a nitrogen fertilizer solution, with a content of dicyandiamide as nitrification inhibitor, wherein, for retarding dicyandiamide crystallization, the solution contains at least one water-soluble organic polymeric compound as stabilizer.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel urease inhibited fertilizer compositions containing urea and a urease inhibiting amount of one or more organo boron acid compounds, and to a method and composition for inhibiting the catalytic activity of urease through use of such compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved annealing process for preparing melamine-urea fertilizer granular agglomerates having increased crush strength.

Abstract: The present invention relates to crop culture and is particularly concerned with practices for conserving soil nitrogen and for supplying the soil nitrogen requirements for plant nutrition. These practices involve the employment, as active agent, of a novel butane compound having the formula ##STR1## wherein each Y is independently hydrogen, chloro-, bromo-, fluoro- or methyl; Z is a straight or branched chain alkyl of 1-4 carbon atoms; R is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy or halo and n is an integer from 0 to 2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the environment protection and, more specifically, to microbiological processes for recultivation of industrial refuse heaps.The process of the present invention involves treatment of the heaps with fertilizers resulting from purification of production-communal waste waters, followed by treatment with a humic preparation containing a culture of the mold fungus Aspergillus niger. Then plowing of the ground is effected with a subsequent sowing with seeds of perennial plants. The heap surface sown with said seeds is inoculated with a bacterial preparation containing a culture of ammonifying and nitrifying bacteria.During the period of the plant sprouting and tillering inoculation is effected by means of a bacterial preparation containing a culture of azotobacter and phosphate-dissolving bacteria. All these bacteria are recovered from said refuse heaps, wherefore they are already adapted thereto.

Abstract: Disclosed is the use of aluminum tris(-O-ethyl phosphonate) as an ammonium nitrification inhibitor. This compound can be spread upon or mixed with the soil or applied with nitrogen-containing fertilizers to inhibit ammonium nitrification in the soil.

Abstract: Solid granular fertilizers based on the inclusion of phosphoric acid as an additive to urea and consisting of a homogeneous mixture of two solid crystalline phases, i.e., urea and urea phosphate, and ranging in its overall N:P.sub.2 O.sub.5 weight ratio from about 2:1 to about 5:1, preferably from about 2:1 to 3:1. These fertilizers are suitable for surface application, especially where immediate incorporation into the soil is not practicable, such as on pastures, or undesirable such as in conjunction with reduced tillage practices, and generally wherever it is necessary or desirable to apply nitrogen on the surface of soil, ensuring substantially reduced losses of urea nitrogen by volatilization, and causing a delay of 4 to 7 days in the commencement of such losses.