The use of native prairie grasses and flowers in row-crop land has evolved from an Iowa State University research project ...
Beneath every farm field, garden bed, and forest floor, a hidden population dwarfs the roughly eight billion people alive on ...
Field water management sits at the heart of agricultural resilience. In an era of intensifying drought, expanding salinization, and progressive soil ...
On May 16, a rare dust storm pushed across northern Illinois, northern Indiana and the Chicago metropolitan area. Pictured here is the storm approaching Bloomington, Illinois. Soil and Water ...
During the programme, scientists created awareness on the judicious use of fertilizers, natural farming, green manuring, ...
North Dakota sugarbeet farmers work to save the soil About a half dozen farmers in Walsh County, North Dakota, are conducting on-farm research trials on various methods including, minimum till, strip ...
Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. To assess global hotspots for preserving soil ecological values, an international team of ...
World Soil Day is celebrated on December 5 every year, as recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) in 2002. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Conference endorsed World ...