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 ...

Soil is all around us – well actually it’s underneath us! Soil covers most of the land and is also sometimes called earth, dirt or mud. Soil is important because it helps plants to grow by containing ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We spoke with the RHS-trained Horticulturalist and dedicated ...

This is a remarkable characteristic of desert soil bacteria, as in other types of soil many groups of bacteria take much longer to reactivate." When reactivated, the bacteria would quickly begin to ...

Feeding the 8.2 billion people who inhabit the planet depends on healthy soils. Yet, soil health has been declining over the years, with more than one-third of the world’s agricultural land now ...

After winning its regional competition, a team of University of Delaware students recently placed eighth in a national soil judging competition in Iowa. These undergraduate students spent hours ...

With the planting season setting in, it is important to know the pH of the soil in order for you to know what plants you will have to grow on it. Knowing the PH determines how soil absorbs nutrients ...