CAPUTA, S.D.— Understanding your soil type is a vital tool to developing your farming and ranching practices. “Those properties of the soils dictate how we are going to basically utilize those soils ...

After winning its regional competition, a team of University of Delaware students recently placed eighth in a national soil judging competition in Iowa. These undergraduate students spent hours ...

Hands pressing plant into the ground - Momo Productions/Getty Images A healthy garden begins in the ground, so avoid making the mistake of selecting the wrong soil for your plants. Whether you're ...

Mr. Jabr is the author of “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.” When my partner and I bought our home in Portland, Ore., four years ago, we immediately began designing our dream garden, ...

This is a remarkable characteristic of desert soil bacteria, as in other types of soil many groups of bacteria take much longer to reactivate." When reactivated, the bacteria would quickly begin to ...