This website, Purdue Soil Health, provides hands-on soil health educational activities for high school teachers, a photo and video library, and general information about Purdue soil health research ...

4. Organic matter. This is a key measure of soil health and structure. Although it’s hard to make immediate changes to organic matter levels, farmers should have a long-term plan for improvement ...

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers at ...

Seasoned experts explain here the revolutionising of soil health monitoring through the science of the AI4SoilHealth project ...

Soil can erode over time producing smaller, less healthy plants. Soil erosion happens when soil is blown or washed away. This can be caused by rain or the West Texas wind. A great example of this is ...

Grazing livestock on stalk residue can pay off as long as soil health practices apply, a Colorado State University specialist ...

Read about healthy soils and resilient farms, focusing on lessons learned from U.S. soil conservation, with the U.S.

A soil test is only as accurate as the sample on which it is made. A soil sample weighing about 1/2 pound is used to represent thousands of pounds of soil in the lawn or garden. Therefore, it is ...

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, ...