Saying soil is important is an understatement. From serving as the medium where most of our food is grown, to sequestering carbon and reducing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, to being the home for ...

Huijie Gan, an assistant research professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, holds a soil sample and sensor she used for a project to assess soil health amidst a ...

A new soil health interpretation tool has gone nationwide, giving farmers an opportunity to evaluate the health of their soil and compare results with a national baseline.

Ray Archuleta says history is repeating itself across much of the nation. High wheat prices encouraged farmers to till more and more land, but when the drought came in the 1930s, the soil blew because ...

The loss of soil biodiversity is among the most deteriorating soil threats globally, although confidence in the trend remains low, according to the latest global assessment of the world’s soils by the ...

The general approach reached by the Council today aims to make soil health monitoring obligatory, provides guiding principles for sustainable soil management and addresses situations where soil ...