The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function; for example, not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions of a ...

What is “soilless” farming and is it better for the planet?B.R., via email. Farming is far from friendly to the environment.

Soil less tomato growing innovation. It leads to 30 pc more yield and there's no need to use pesticides. Tired of soil borne diseases that have been ruining their tomato yields, some farmers are ...

The topic of food security and sustainable agricultural systems is a crucial one, particularly as environmental degradation escalates. “Recently, organic agricultural systems have drawn much attention ...

The world’s population continues to grow, while the amount of arable land and fresh water available to produce sufficient food for billions of people is beginning to top out. One solution is ...

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 ...

Rapid erosion due to human activity, such as grazing livestock and farming, has stripped the Alps of almost all the soil formed since the retreat of the glaciers. This soil developed over millennia as ...

CAPUTA, S.D.— Understanding your soil type is a vital tool to developing your farming and ranching practices. “Those properties of the soils dictate how we are going to basically utilize those soils ...

During this agricultural soil field work, the researchers measure a wide array of soil conditions in the arable fields to evaluate the multifunctionality of the soil. The many functions of a healthy ...