Soil testing could not be more important preceding tasks like establishing a new garden, diagnosing plant problems, determining fertilizer needs — and much more. But some situations don't require the ...

The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) and permeability function are critical parameters for understanding the hydraulic behavior of unsaturated soils and are increasingly relevant in evaluating ...

Fort Bragg announced it will begin sampling soil from some residential areas this month to assess lead levels in the ground. The soil sampling will focus on neighborhoods with homes built before 1978, ...

The most important task before winter arrives is harvesting, ensuring that nothing is wasted in what amounts to an entire season of work. Gathering and preparing all the produce for market or storage ...

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 ...

Connecticut is now accepting soil samples from farmers who want to test for highly toxic chemicals on their property, according to officials. The Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station said it is ...

New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by ...

To address the challenges of limited space, quality control issues, and ensuring stable self-compaction of backfill materials in trench backfilling projects, a loess-based cement slurry was developed ...

Pasadena released a new public health advisory following the latest results from the preliminary round of soil testing around the Eaton Fire burn scar. The analysis showed that the soil surrounding ...