Farmers know improving soil health can supercharge crop performance. However, it’s not always clear what steps or adjustments a farmer can take to see real results. Try these nine strategies ...

In a unique initiative, students at Deep Griha Academy are using soil testing kits to help local farmers improve soil health ...

Use of nitrogen-15 lends understanding of the dynamics and interactions between various pools in agricultural systems, including nitrogen fixation by legumes and utilization of soil and fertilizer ...

They also capture moisture, especially during heavy rain events, and allow it to better infiltrate the soil to get down deep to the crop roots. “As far as benefits to the soil, soil health ...

The most promising results came from the mixed cover crop treatment ... of cover crops as a "living mulch" technique to improve soil health. The researchers suggested that a mixture of legume ...

Beef producer from South Dakota says his soil health recipe for success includes a mix of long-term no-till farming and cover ...

such as cover cropping (planting non-harvest crops to enrich soil health) and crop rotation. The next UN climate summit in ...

"In a diversified cropping system, there's more carbon input. So we have figured there would be more carbon stored in the soil. But actually ... four-year systems that mix in a year or two ...