Weather extremes are becoming the norm to many involved in production agriculture. Jodi DeJong-Hughes is an extension ...

A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

Even though February might not scream gardening season, it’s the perfect time to prepare your spring garden for a vibrant ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

The addition of zeolite and palm fiber to cement soil improves mechanical properties, offering solutions for ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

Many gardeners bemoan the presence of heavy clay soil, but there's a case for its use in your yard thanks to certain benefits ...

As a novel method for assessing offshore soil, the T-bar penetrometer offers benefits such as high precision, reliability, ample data acquisition and cost-effectiveness, but its application in ...

For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution has granted automatic citizenship to any person born on US soil. As the courts moved to temporarily block his order, various media ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the plant, including water, other organisms and soil conditions, influences how ...

Soil moisture levels are showing improvement in several regions, while others continue to struggle with drought conditions. Recent rainfall has benefited areas east of Interstate 35, improving crop ...