A Soil Health Institute study indicates that many other farmers may improve their profitability by adopting soil health management systems.
Farmers must engage consumers and explain that we have shared values in regard to our animals and the sustainability of the environment.
Washington State University researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes.
What is this notion of pH, and why is it so mission critical? The symptoms of a problem are drawn out in farm soils: its creeping acidity, so to speak.
Soil health tests are not the same as soil tests, but the question is which do you need to be a productive and sustainable grower, no matter the scale.
Researchers studied the economics of soil health management systems to provide farmers with the information needed to decide to incorporate those practices.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s new “biological evaluation” makes access for trusted pesticides such as atrazine and glyphosate even harder.
More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest — nearly 100 million acres — has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers.
Crop yield has never been a good metric for success. Profitability & restoring soil health might be a better way to measure success in modern agriculture.
A new type of self-watering soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants.