Study results showed the highest detectable concentrations of heavy metals were lead, barium and chromium. All samples except for lead had less than or the same levels expected for an urban area. The ...

Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more ...

The precision agriculture industry hasn’t done a great job articulating the value of site-specific soil testing, which has led to frustration from farmers, who aren’t sure how to use what they learn ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...

Arguably, one of the most fundamental tasks of hydrologic science is to quantify the distribution of water across global storages (which we term the ‘water budget’), and the rates at which water ...

When observing unexplained stunting, wilting, or death in crops. When planting into a field with a history of nematodes. In areas with prior poor performance. In fall when nematode populations should ...

Emory environmentals scientist combined field-level data with machine-learning techniques to estimate soil organic carbon at the U.S. scale, another step toward providing more accurate baseline data ...

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 ...

A no-cost soil sampling program is now available for Hoosier farmers. Indiana’s Mississippi River Basin Soil Sampling Program is a no-cost program with a focus on increasing the knowledge and use of ...