Good soil is the starting point for a garden that grows well. It feeds your plants, holds water, and helps roots grow strong. If the soil is off, even the best seeds can struggle. Many gardeners focus ...

Farmers who employ soil health management practices such as cover crops and no-till can significantly improve their bottom lines, a new study concludes. The Soil Health Institute, Natural Resources ...

What has the term soil health come to mean? Soil health is really about how well the soil is functioning compared to how well it could function. Some of those functions include cycling water, cycling ...

Black soil covering white snow in ditches during the winter and clouds of dirt swirling across fields, farms and roads are stark evidence that erosion is a major threat to soil health. Despite a “Wake ...

The farmer and rancher adage “if you take care of machinery, the machinery will take care of you” also applies to soil health. Cassidy Million, the director of ag science at Heliae Agriculture, ...

Soil is the lifeblood of any garden, and its health directly influences the growth of plants, trees, and flowers. However, many gardeners unknowingly engage in practices that can compromise soil ...

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — On the prairie bluffs south of the Minnesota River near this southwestern Minnesota farm town, Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz grow crops and livestock — and soil. Rather than ...

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 ...