Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

Have you ever thought of soil as a living organism? Or even considered how deeply it impacts your daily life? For many people ...

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South Dakota State University has published new recommendations on soil tarping that can help producers manage weeds.

There is a paradox at the centre of the Amazon that took a long ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...

The ground beneath our feet is exhaling. Steadily and without pause, through a process called soil respiration, plant roots and microbes release carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere. In one cited ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

It's soil that slips through your fingers—loose, dry and stubbornly unproductive. Stretching across large parts of South Australia and western Victoria, sandy soils have long resisted conventional ...

If you're preparing to do some gardening or lawn care, you might see a variety of soil bags at your local garden center. Although these bags look similar, they have different labels because they're ...

Long before Portage la Prairie became known for its rich agricultural land, the soil beneath the region was already helping ...