Soil is not simply "dirt." It supplies plants with important nutrients, and is home to billions of organisms that feed plants ...

Every new gardening season starts with curiosity. Library shelves quietly reveal what gardeners keep returning to, year after ...

“The Ground We Share” is a multidimensional experience. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., visitors will be able to view interactive exhibits about soil testing and regenerative agriculture, sample local foods ...

This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Agriculture–National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, ...

During a field day, a farmer asked Ken Ferrie, “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does healthy soil correlate with less need for fungicide?” To find answers to ...

A recent session of the Carbon and Soil Research International Forum brought together leading scientists to address a ...

Interest in soil health continues to increase as farmers are often experiencing extreme weather conditions and are looking for ways to stabilize or even increase yields. To address this interest, a ...

Soil health expert Ray Archuleta displays a clump of healthy soil in a pasture at the Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz farm in Redwood County. Credit: MinnPost photo by Forrest Peterson REDWOOD FALLS, Minn.

Researchers compared the nutritional content of the food crops grown using conventional versus regenerative farming practices — those that build the soil by using cover crops, a diverse rotation of ...

BYRON, Minn. — What began as a core group of Byron farmers looking for ways to make their farmland more sustainable has turned into a multimillion dollar county soil health initiative, and a real ...