There is much more carbon stored in Earth's soil than in its atmosphere. A significant portion of this soil carbon is in organic form (carbon bound to carbon), called soil organic carbon (SOC).

There is no bigger motivator for fine-tuning a crop nutrition programme than the rising cost of fertiliser. Soil analysis is ...

Given the fact that we are still in the winter season, most of us are probably not thinking about lawns, shrubs, trees or ornamental plants. But, there is one important landscape management practice ...

Chelsea Dinterman grew up in rural Maryland where she was active in 4-H and FFA. She spent a year working for an agricultural newspaper in Southeast Kansas before joining the Successful Farming team ...

With most things trending toward becoming “smart,” agriculture is right in line with the evolution. A recent innovation by Purdue University College of Agriculture researchers Troy Fiechter and Drew ...

Years of drainage work, lime applications, and soil sampling were followed by the strongest soybean crop the farmer said he ...