HURON, S.D. — For specialty crop farmers working to eliminate weeds, soil tarping is one option that uses plastic tarps on the soil surface for several weeks. This terminates cover crops, kills weeds ...

A new study has introduced a more accurate way to evaluate how biochar interacts with water, offering important insights for agriculture, soil management, and environmental sustainability. Biochar, a ...

Spring is the perfect time to think about enriching your garden soil, and you may be wishing you had composted your produce and food scraps in a bin all winter. But it's not too late—there are many ...

The TSSAA Board of Control has eliminated the success formula for Division II-AA and DII-AAA football teams. A new method will establish a minimum of 12 teams in DII-AAA, with the largest schools by ...

Revive your garden with the gardening method that brings lifeless soil back to life! This video reveals a simple yet powerful approach to restore soil fertility, improve structure, and support healthy ...

Soil testing is an essential tool for managing phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients in Iowa and many states. The units reported in a soil test are expressed in parts per million (ppm) of the ...

ABSTRACT: Expansive soils present a significant geohazard to light infrastructure worldwide, causing costly damage through swelling and shrinkage cycles driven by moisture content changes. One key ...

Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a new deep learning method that improves the classification accuracy of mixed ...

Many nutrients in soil exist as salts, soluble and available for plant uptake. But when salts accumulate in excess, crop growth can decline. With more frequent surface flooding in coastal fields and ...