Decades of scientific research tells us that improving nutrient management and rebuilding soil health in farm fields can increase productivity for farmers and deliver a range of conservation benefits.

Precise information about agricultural soils is key to managing them more efficiently and sustainably. Researchers at the ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

Tilling the soil and leaving it bare for the fall, winter and spring increases soil erosion and boosts the growth of oxygen-loving microbes that consume soil-organic matter, releasing more nitrate.

As JD Hollingsworth re­calls, the turning point came one evening in 2012 while riding in the combine with his father, ...

The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has recently launched a large-scale deep soil carbon coring ...