Good organic amendments for garden soils include wood byproducts such as sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure, grass or ...

Recent applications of molecular genetics to edaphic microbial communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and elsewhere have rejected a long-held belief that Antarctic soils contain extremely limited ...

Agro-ecologist Nicole Masters says some regions here facing drought do need a re-think on how the soil is treated ...

State water managers are bracing for a below-normal runoff across most of the state as the state's snowpack melts this spring ...

They identified three key states: very wet soil (where moisture doesn't affect temperature much), very dry soil (where there's little cooling effect), and a middle state where soil moisture has ...

Many larger farmers or those in strictly corn, soybean rotations are apprehensive about using cover crops to Flip their Soil, and that is especially true for farmers in drier climates. However, in ...

The 2007 cropping season has been very dry for a large portion of the state and harvest started at a rapid pace. From mid-September to Oct. 22, the state has received an abundance of rainfall, ...