Liebig envisioned a new kind of farming: agriculture as a branch of chemistry and physics. In this scheme, soil was just a base with the physical attributes necessary to hold roots. What mattered to agriculture were the chemical nutrients on which plant growth depended: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and so on.
Liebig envisioned a new kind of farming: agriculture as a branch of chemistry and physics. In this scheme, soil was just a base with the physical attributes necessary to hold roots. What mattered to agriculture were the chemical nutrients on which plant growth depended: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and so on.
