Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 5/10/18


If you want to know the power of persistence, the story of how Dr.  Brian Ward received a patent for the first-ever organic ammonium fertilizer fits the bill. Ward is an organic vegetable scientist at Clemson’s Coastal Research and Education Center in Charleston, S.C. In January, he was granted a patent for a production process to distill ammonium fertilizer from hyper-ammonia-producing, or HAP, bacteria.

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