From tilling, planting and harvesting crops, most farmers know what sections of their ground are most productive or where problems exist, such as saline areas. Most operators want to know, “How good ...

The department’s barebones SoilWeb app grew a following until app stores changed their rules in 2017. Now it’s back. Soil holds powerful insights about what America is made of and many people leverage ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

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 ...

POLK COUNTY, Ore. — Soil science has come a long way since Milton Whitney in 1899 began surveying soils in the tobacco lands of Connecticut. Whitney’s project to match soils to crops caught on quickly ...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service launched the Web Soil Survey website in 2005. The site allows online users to access soil survey information for a particular piece of land instead of having ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the ARS’ Partnership for Data Innovations have launched a new web-based application to facilitate digital soil mapping ...