For the past 10 years, Wayne Honeycutt has led the organization he founded, The Soil Health Institute, to elevate the concept ...

The following was written by Bailey Tangen and Gabi Bolwerk, University of Minnesota Extension educators, for the Oct. 28 ...

Soil hydraulic properties are important for irrigation scheduling and proper land-use planning. Field capacity, permanent wilting point and infiltration rate are the three vital hydraulic properties ...

The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

As we enter the holiday season, there is one holiday that simply cannot be missed—World Soils Day. On Dec. 5, of every year, we set a day to appreciate soil and focus on the importance of healthy soil ...

Not to be underestimated, soils are fundamental to all life on Earth. (Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis) Soils are fundamental to all life on Earth and are the foundation of nearly every ecosystem on the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In pots containing sandy soils at two levels (pH 5 and 7) to which 0.5 mg Se L⁻¹ soil had been added, an increase in the proportion of clay ...

We know that soil feeds plants, but do we know how it got there in the first place? Soil forms via the interaction of five factors: parent material, climate, living beings, a land’s topography, and a ...

David John Eldridge receives funding from The Hermon Slade Foundation. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo receives funding from the British Ecological Society, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, ...

There are tons of potting soils to choose from, some of which contain no actual soil at all. However, the two most important qualities remain the same.