Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Soil is one of our most precious resources. Ecoacoustics, or the study of environmental sounds, has been around for a century, but it has only recently been applied to understanding soils. This ...

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To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

Successful spring gardening starts long before the plants go into the ground. In east Idaho, gardeners commonly work with ...

Farmers Edge Labs is pushing big on lab testing for soil and tissue sampling, especially with the changing weather patterns.

Soil scientist Andrew Margenot holds a jar of soil gathered from Menard County, Illinois in 1948. The University of Illinois professor said he rediscovered the "church of soil" when searching an old ...