UREA

Fertilizer Urea
Urea, a white crystalline solid containing 46% nitrogen, is widely used in the agricultural industry as fertilizer.

Physical Forms of Urea
Commercially, fertilizer grade urea can be purchased as prills or as a granulated material. Prilled urea is usually produced by dropping liquid urea from a "prilling tower" while drying the product. The prills form a smaller and softer substance than other materials commonly used in fertilizer blends. Granules are larger, harder, and more resistant to moisture. As a result, granulated urea has become a more suitable material for fertilizer blends.

Advantages of Fertilizer Urea

• Urea can be applied to soil as a solid or solution or to certain crops as a foliar spray.
• Urea usage involves little or no fire or explosion hazard.
• Urea's high analysis, 46% N, helps reduce handling, storage and transportation costs over other dry N forms.
• Urea manufacture releases few pollutants to the environment.
• Urea, when properly applied, results in crop yield increases equal to other forms of nitrogen.