Conservation agriculture (CA) presents a promising substitute to the tillage-intensive rice–wheat cropping system (RWS) prevalent in the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGPs). In the northwestern IGPs, on-farm ...

Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) in croplands by switching from conventional to conservation management may be hampered by stimulated microbial decomposition under warming. Here, we test the ...

On May 16, a rare dust storm pushed across northern Illinois, northern Indiana and the Chicago metropolitan area. Pictured here is the storm approaching Bloomington, Illinois. Soil and Water ...

Beneath every farm field, garden bed, and forest floor, a hidden population dwarfs the roughly eight billion people alive on Earth. A single teaspoon of topsoil can harbor around one billion ...

Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

North Dakota sugarbeet farmers work to save the soil About a half dozen farmers in Walsh County, North Dakota, are conducting on-farm research trials on various methods including, minimum till, strip ...

The "farmer-led movement" aims to shape the agricultural landscape by strengthening soils and building community. Subscribe to the new Harvest newsletter, for our latest reporting on agriculture and ...

World Soil Day is celebrated on December 5 every year, as recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) in 2002. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Conference endorsed World ...