ROME, Italy, July 25, 2014 (ENS) – A third of the world’s soils are degraded by erosion, nutrient depletion, acidification, urbanization, and chemical pollution, soil experts at a global conference ...

Expanding efforts to measure, monitor and protect soil biodiversity around the world will intensify further with the establishment of the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, to be led by the Food ...

This newspaper, opening a 2005 investigation into farmland ownership, wrote this: “In Iowa, we’ve always been able to take for granted that the land will provide.” But Donnelle Eller’s exclusive Sept.

Even when harvest wraps up and the bins are full, the work isn’t done. The choices you make after harvest can make or break next year’s crop, especially when it comes to soil management. Well-managed ...

In one year, the NUTRO TM brand launched its GREATER GROUND program, which has since trained 60 growers in healthy soil practices and announced a $150,000 grant to help a select grower with transition ...

Drought and heat waves, much like what South Carolina has experienced in the past few weeks, can be damaging to vegetable and landscape gardens. Water, too, can be just as detrimental if plants get ...

This decades is our last opportunity to turn the tide on biodiversity loss and the recovery of land and oceans. Palm Beach residents can do the right thing by avoiding pesticides and by adding diverse ...

Beneath the urban landscapes of California lies a diverse ecosystem, teeming with invertebrates and microbes. Soil acts as a carbon sink, filters water and provides essential nutrients to plants.

Using cover crops after a short-season crop is one way to protect the soil resource. In this Soil Health Minute, Abbey Wick looks at one field where a farmer has recently seeded some cover crops.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A $3 million groundwater protection and soil health initiative has been rolled out to Olmsted County farm operators through the Olmsted County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Gardeners weary of watering look eagerly forward to autumn. October marks the transition from the invariably dry if variably hot summer into the hopefully wetter winter months. Even before the rains ...