We'll also teach you how to amend the soil you have so you can grow the plants you want. Depending on where you live, you're likely to have one of six different types of soil: loam, clay, sandy, silty ...

Malawi’s increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability ...

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 ...

A University of Connecticut study is finding new ways to reduce nitrogen pollution on farms. The study finds manganese, a type of metal, reduces nitrogen levels when it's mixed in with soil. Many ...

Bacteria and other microorganisms are abundant throughout soils and deep into the ground and serve an essential role in the global ecosystem through various biochemical processes, particularly ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Yuen Yoong Leong, Director of Sustainability Studies, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN); Professor, Sunway University, and Michael James Platts (1945-2022), University of Cambridge ...