USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced recently that soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely used website ...

Growing demand for eco-conscious turf care and soil management highlights a shift toward sustainable materials and ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...

For centuries, agriculture has relied on three essential assets: land, water and seed. In the 2020s, however, a fourth asset has become equally critical: data. I have spent much of the past year ...

Platforms that insist on a single global recipe are giving way to systems that adapt to a valley, a village, and sometimes ...

“Soil moisture is just a memory creator,” Elise Osenga, community science manager at Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), said at a summit in Carbondale on May 11. “It’s this memory of what’s ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

Bioengineering professor Shalini Prasad (left), Vikram Narayanan Dhamu, doctor of bioengineering (center) and graduate student Mohammed Eldeeb hold parts of a device they developed to measure soil ...

It comes as no surprise to architects and engineers that clay-rich soils which retain lots of moisture are unstable. Clay soils have a water-holding capacity of about 1.35-2.5 in. of water per foot of ...