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.
American Farmland Trust launched online access to the methods, tools, and training resources they used in developing case studies featuring soil health.
While one soil health practice may benefit one farmer or piece of land, it may bring challenges to another depending on location.
The Cover Crop Planting Report shows that farmers are using diverse strategies to plant cover crops to accomplish their soil health goals.
Using no-till and prescribed fire management are two ways to manage crop residue. Both practices help keep organic matter and nitrogen in the soil.
Distinguished pedologist Dr. Rattan Lal becomes this year’s recipient of the 2020 World Food Prize Laureate for promoting soils for sustainable development.
Nematology faculty member Billy Crow and doctoral candidate Lesley Schumacher study nematodes that are more villainous than they are heroic.