To improve the health of the soil you'll need to take a sample, read its nutrients and pH level, then enhance it with whatever additive (amendment) it needs to bring the soil into a healthy balance.

The summer season has provided an ideal opportunity for farmers to do soil mapping to gauge what inputs will be needed before ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Crops, Hutchinson and Nathan Winter Extension Educator – McLeod an Meeker counties Information collected from a soil test can be no better than the sample.

Dimitra is offering AI-driven apps and IoT-based sensors to cocoa farmers to track the conditions of the crop.

Cool-season crops like cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, onions, carrots, radishes, pansies, and diathus can be planted. (They can ...

Statewide hay supplies depend on conditions of winter forage crops and rainfall, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.

The best regions to practice dormant seeding in February include Northern and transitional areas where cool-season grasses ...

The warmer days February often brings may have you itching to start cleaning up the yard. Here is what you can do the month ...

“The maps will be based on different soil attributes like pH that will aid in policy decisions and arm specific recommendations to farmers under different agricultural value chains nationwide ...

ARS in collaboration with UNL and PDI have developed SSPOT, a digital tool that streamlines the process of selecting optimal ...