Aggregation is an excellent indicator of soil health, especially when a shift in management practices happens on-farm. Water and air movement in the soil along with trafficability improve when ...

It can be hard to resist on a sunny spring day, but don’t start digging in the garden too soon. “You can prevent a lot of problems from compacted soil if you wait a while,” said Spencer Campbell, ...

One hundred years after the Dust Bowl blew away topsoil from nearly 200 million acres of American farmland, farmers and ranchers are slowly entering into a new relationship with the soils beneath ...

AMES, Iowa – A new study from Iowa State University scientists sheds light on the mystery of how soil organic matter forms across a wide range of ecosystems. The study, published in the academic ...

Soil health may not sound like a major issue if you don’t live or work on a farm. But Georgia Congressman David Scott said it’s critical to our food supply chain nationwide. “We don’t have a food ...

Gardening takes patience, skill and a boatload of miracles. It also takes quality dirt. Garden centers carry a variety of products that look like soil. With names like topsoil, compost, potting soil, ...

The unusually warm January and February we’ve had this year have plants running about two weeks ahead of schedule. Average temperatures were 8.9 degrees higher than usual in January, and the averages ...

A few weeks ago we wrote about the importance of doing soil testing and the proper procedure to follow in order to get good representative useful results. If you received the results, some of you may ...

A: Yummy, fresh berries are a real treat! I’m glad you are preplanning, as blueberries are much different than brambles (raspberries, blackberries, etc). Blueberries have different pests, diseases, ...

image: A team of scientists from RUDN University and the Dokuchyaev Soil Science Institute developed a method for identifying the color of soil at different depths and the structure of soil profile ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Strawberry tree is a moniker attached to two arboreal species. One of them (Arbutus unedo) is a popular ornamental tree prized for its domed canopy and ...

ST. PETER — Lisa Heldke could bet on hearing a familiar comment from her father, a northern Wisconsin resident, every time he visited the area. “He'd always say, 'Why is the dirt here so black?'” ...