Have you ever walked through a soybean field at harvest and wondered about the small mounds of leaves you see scattered about on the ground? Chances are those mounded leaves were gathered as a winter ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 29, 2019) A soil health monitoring study in England finds that an alarming 42% of surveyed fields are deficient in a wriggly measurement—earthworm populations. Over half the ...

Earthworms improve the soil by aerating it, breaking down organic matter and mineralizing nutrients. Now, researchers have dug up another possible role: reducing the number and relative abundance of ...

Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: Earthworms, the hardworking invertebrates that grace the upper layers of soil, have long been considered helpful in our home gardens. Earthworms are prolific munchers, grinding ...

Native, possibly giant, earthworm science in the Pacific Northwest is advancing with the discovery of two new specimens from opposite sides of the interior Columbia River basin. University of Idaho ...

SVENDSEN 1 showed that the estimate of an earthworm population obtained by hand sorting soil samples was much greater than that by the prevalent method of bringing worms to the soil surface with ...

Farmers to change soil management practices after survey identified severe decline of earthworms in farmland fields. A study of England’s farmland has found key earthworm types are rare or absent in ...

A healthy soil is described as a living system that helps to maintain and enhance the natural environment, which in turn makes for more productive crops. That’s a shortened version of the UN Food and ...