USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced recently that soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely used website ...

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 ...

As a gardener, you no doubt know that the most critical factors in your garden are your soil type, how much sun you get and precipitation. It can take a lot of observation and time to figure this out ...

TOLEDO -- It is hard to imagine that dirt is tracked so far and wide across the United States, but detailed information on soil across more than 95 percent of the nation's counties are contained ...

Soils come in many different colors, described by hue, value, and chroma (Munsell color system). Using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) online Web Soil Survey (WSS) to discover the ...

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