In an effort to improve the environment and life for farmers, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (SCDAA) in 1935. This Act implemented payments ...

A group of Tasmanian dairy farmers is hopeful tiny organisms in the soil could soon offer a cheaper, climate-friendly alternative to synthetic fertiliser. They've made more than 500 hectares ...

Learn more. STATE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will present a 7-part online lunch and learn series, intended to help farmers take their soil health to the next level. The sessions ...

How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and humidity? Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. Therefore, carbon uptake ...

New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

“Here we reveal unexpectedly abundant and diverse microbial community even in these driest, coldest, and nutrient-poorest of soils, which suggest that biodiversity estimates in Antarctic soils ...

A SUSPECTED Iranian terror attack was just hours from rocking the UK when it was thwarted by a massive armed police operation, reports say. Five men, including four ...