Your client’s crop yielded poorly, and they assume it was due to drought. But you suspect it may be a fertility issue. How ...

Are you considering an attempt to germinate grass seed by laying it on top of the soil? Here are a few things you should know ...

thus only about 10 lbs. of N are returned to the soil. The values of P and K are accurate to what would be returned. Fertilizer prices for Illinois published by USDA (May 12 report) are: N $0.40 ...

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 ...

“What was different is my boobies were, like, 10 times bigger because I was about 40-50 pounds heavier on this runway than when I retired,” Banks, 50, quipped during the Wednesday, October ...

Top-dressing a lawn is a fancy term for amending the soil without disturbing the sod. Golfers might be familiar with the practice because this technique was first performed on golf courses in ...

2005). With the exception of C, H, and O, which plants obtain from air and water, plants derive the remaining 14 elements from the soil or through fertilizers, manures, and amendments (Parikh ...

The increasing human population is placing greater pressure on soil and water resources and threatening our ability to produce sufficient food, feed, and fiber. As a result, there is a growing ...

The benefits from that single day were undeniable -- and still visible 40 years later. Once the blistering blast of ... “They’re often considered pests, but we thought they would take old soil, move ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

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, ...