Lynette Abbott continues her discussion on soil health by examining the effects of fertilisers on soil organisms ...

In the late 1990s, South Dakota farmer Kurt Stiefvater was ready to give up on the transition to no-till. He’d been no-tilling crops for a decade. But he admits he didn’t understand how it really ...

Black soil covering white snow in ditches during the winter and clouds of dirt swirling across fields, farms and roads are stark evidence that erosion is a major threat to soil health. Despite a “Wake ...

The Minnesota Soil Health Coalition has a mentor network ready to advise producers in trying some new practices on the farm. Mark Gutierrez, executive director of the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, ...

Prairie strips can improve measures of soil health faster than expected, according to new research by Iowa State University scientists working in cooperation with the Soil Health Institute. Prairie ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

Are you a soil health data enthusiast and innovator with a solution for Africa? You have an opportunity to participate in the Data for Soil Health Challenge and/or Innovation Challenge – 2025 to ...

Leveraging tools from seismology — the study of earthquakes and the inside of our planet — the Earth Rover Program aims to provide critical data on the health of soil. Humans, and terrestrial life in ...

In the Red River Valley, the fragile soil isn’t even safe when it is covered in snow. Soil health depletion combined with erosion can lead to snirt, a phenomenon where snow drifts and melt can move ...

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — On the prairie bluffs south of the Minnesota River near this southwestern Minnesota farm town, Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz grow crops and livestock — and soil. Rather than ...