When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens and lawns, but also the value of recommendations that result from soil test ...

CHICO — It’s true: our overall health as inhabitants of Earth depends on getting involved with what’s right under our feet. Soil, and its ability to efficiently grow crops for the food we eat, is ...

Anxious about the rueful state of his peas, radishes and onions, Rod Marquardt arrived at the University of Minnesota’s soil testing laboratory with two lunch bag-sized containers of dirt. “We’re just ...

Soil microbiology research increasingly depends on big data. This means that experiments will no longer only mostly be carried out under controlled conditions in the laboratory but will instead move ...

In this lab, students measure the diversity of soil invertebrates that are collected from areas with different vegetation composition or cover, depending on the questions and hypothesis that the ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — If you suspect that your soil is to blame for your yard's poor performance, all you need is a bag of it and a couple of dollars to get a detailed analysis from the University of ...

Microbiologist Martin Reinhard Rasmussen has developped and built the MARTINIS system as part of his PhD project at Aarhus University. Here he is in the field with his prototype. As a courtesy to the ...

Durango School District 9-R is celebrating the completion of phase 2 of its SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab and community garden at Riverview Elementary School in northeast Durango. Durango School District ...

CEBU, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) is urging farmers across the country to take full advantage of its free Mobile Soil Laboratory (MSL) services—an initiative designed to bring ...