Conservation practices and planning are essential to ensure productive fields and a healthy environment. Healthy soil will last for generations. Shorter term savings includes using no-till planting to ...

Eric Hange of Medina SWCD shares how rainfall simulators and student curiosity are helping build a new generation of ...

Soil holds nutrients for plant uptake, holds water and air for metabolic processes, provides habitat for living organisms, and filters impurities. Soil texture is determined by the mixture of the ...

The chief scientific officer at the Soil Health Institute, Cristine Morgan, told attendees how to watch for and assess their own soil health. Morgan was the keynote speaker earlier this year at the ...

PLATTSBURGH — Soil is the most important factor for any gardeners no matter if they grow vegetables or flowers in pots, raised beds or a plot. “The key to a healthy plant is healthy roots, and the key ...

Q: What should I use to amend raised beds? My beds need to be rejuvenated. Sulfur, rock dust, chicken manure, worm castings — I am not sure which ones to use or to use them all. A: There is a lot of ...

Soil health has become a frequent topic in beef cattle seminars and is recognized as the basic element of the cattle industry. Healthy soil grows abundant forage, which is the economic backbone of ...

CORVALLIS – It’s a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. “The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay,” said James Cassidy, a ...

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 ...