Water regulates the transfer of heat, thereby helping buffer soil temperature (Jury & Horton 2004). Biologically, microbes require water in soil pores to metabolically function (Maier et al.

studying each method's effectiveness on a crop rotation system under ambient conditions and an infrared heater that increased the surface soil temperature by 2 degrees Celsius. The study ...

Temperatures climbed into the 70s F yesterday in the US heartland, the warmest day so far in April. Very cold conditions in March, 4.5 F below normal, caused deep soil layer freezing. Soil ...