One hundred years after the Dust Bowl blew away topsoil from nearly 200 million acres of American farmland, farmers and ranchers are slowly entering into a new relationship with the soils beneath ...

Prairie strips can improve measures of soil health faster than expected, according to new research by Iowa State University scientists working in cooperation with the Soil Health Institute. Prairie ...

Leveraging tools from seismology — the study of earthquakes and the inside of our planet — the Earth Rover Program aims to provide critical data on the health of soil. Humans, and terrestrial life in ...

Twelve million hectares of agricultural soils are lost globally through soil degradation every year. As an ecologist, I work alongside farmers and growers in the field and have seen how farming can ...

The state agriculture department will award $1.8 million under a new program to help farmers conserve water by improving soil health. The money will fund projects that use specific methods or ...

For generations, agriculture has been the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy and the lifeline of rural communities.Yet beneath the fields that feed millions lies a growing crisis that often receives less ...