Healthy soil acts like a sponge, but new research shows farming practices can damage its ability to store water and protect ...

Further, researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are pursuing their investigations to understand the factors that control the accumulation of soil carbon at depth under moldboard plowing.

Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to ...

As any avid gardener knows, having the right soil in your garden is one of the most important steps in achieving healthy plant growth. Unfortunately, homeowners with heavy clay soil in their yards ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- One thing about growing up here in the Deep South: We know how to dig holes. We're really good at digging holes for ourselves, holes so ambitious and deep we have a hard time getting ...

Clay soil rarely wins popularity contests. It clumps like wet cement during rainy stretches and then bakes into brick when the sun turns fierce. Plants struggle to push roots through it, water lingers ...

Soybeans were nothing more than a minor forage crop in the 1940s. It didn’t take long for soybean growing and processing to become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Meanwhile, alfalfa’s importance has ...

Once you've tested and amended your soil, it's time to get it ready for planting. With many different methods of tillage, or working the soil, how can you know which one is right for your needs and ...

MADISON, WI, February 23, 2009--The practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 yr. Soils under no-till usually host a more abundant and diverse biota and are less prone to ...