Ohio State Extension educator Heather Neikirk explains how the ecosystems within healthy soil work to keep it healthy.

Rutgers University's New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station notes that most food crops have evolved to grow best in ...

Topsoil is the top portion of the soil consisting of ... dust-like sediment of rock and mineral particles). However, many ...

Mark Kimsey from the University of Idaho highlights the importance of monitoring soil properties in forest management ...

2003). While soil is frequently referred to as the "fertile substrate", not all soils are suitable for growing crops. Ideal soils for agriculture are balanced in contributions from mineral ...

Through the study of soil science the importance of this heterogeneous assemblage of minerals, organic matter ... of agroecosystem functioning and best management practices, biotechnology and ...

The effect of soil pH is great on the solubility of minerals or nutrients. Fourteen of the seventeen essential plant nutrients are obtained from the soil. Before a nutrient can be used by plants it ...

A farmer from Cornwall is working with Innovative Farmers and Farm Net Zero to trial methods of sowing maize that minimise ploughing.