Farmers Edge is opening its laboratory testing services up to the public, offering agribusinesses, retailers and farmers access to soil and plant tissue testing. With soil labs in the U.S. and Canada, ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

The primary goal of the TOMI project is to help organic vegetable growers improve the productivity and sustainability of their tomato crops by developing new biologically-based approaches to manage ...

Lynhe Demesyeux, extension nematology educator for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and director of ...

The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...

CHICO — It’s true: our overall health as inhabitants of Earth depends on getting involved with what’s right under our feet. Soil, and its ability to efficiently grow crops for the food we eat, is ...

Anxious about the rueful state of his peas, radishes and onions, Rod Marquardt arrived at the University of Minnesota’s soil testing laboratory with two lunch bag-sized containers of dirt. “We’re just ...