Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing ...

Soil testing begins with the homeowner, gardener, and farmer. The most critical step in soil testing is soil sample collection. Soil testing can help growers make informed decisions about fertilizer ...

The National Integrated Drought Information System and the National Weather Service hosted the first in a two-part series of webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The first was held Feb. 22 ...

In the winter, it might seem like there is not much to do in the garden, but there is one thing everyone can do to set themselves up for success in the spring. That is soil testing, of course. In ...

A question came in this week for Ken Ferrie to answer that he believes other no-till growers would benefit from knowing the answer to as well. The question asked: “As a no-till corn and soybean farmer ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Soil is the Earth’s second-biggest carbon storage locker after the ocean, and a research collaboration has shown that it’s moisture, not temperature or mineral content, that’s ...

The cleanup of millions of pounds of pesticide-contaminated waste at an abandoned ethanol plant near Mead will resume in the coming weeks, the contractor leading the effort announced last week.

You've heard of an apple core. It's the part most people throw away. Today, we'll hear about a different kind of core - a ...