USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced recently that soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely used website ...

For centuries, agriculture has relied on three essential assets: land, water and seed. In the 2020s, however, a fourth asset has become equally critical: data. I have spent much of the past year ...

Platforms that insist on a single global recipe are giving way to systems that adapt to a valley, a village, and sometimes ...

Growing demand for eco-conscious turf care and soil management highlights a shift toward sustainable materials and ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

“Soil moisture is just a memory creator,” Elise Osenga, community science manager at Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), said at a summit in Carbondale on May 11. “It’s this memory of what’s ...

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