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plant foods

noun

plural of plant food
as in fertilizers

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fertilizers
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  • The answer is not to abandon fertilizers but to find a balance between fertilizer use and nurturing the living soils and the billions of microbial communities that quietly sustain American and global agriculture.
    — Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • The plant is expected to start supplying fertilizers to Latin American markets by early 2029, offering some respite to a region that is critical to global crop exports yet dependent on fertilizer imports.
    — Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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