Doug Palen runs a family farm in north-central Kansas, a place he’s called home all his life. Since he started farming for himself in the early 1990s, he’s tried any number of tests that measure soil ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

To know if your soil is healthy, you need to dig in and get dirty - literally. That's why Dr. Shalini Prasad, a professor of bioengineering at UT Dallas, makes cutting-edge soil health technology that ...

Researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes. They used a probe originally developed to measure the electrochemical signal ...

Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil moisture. Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow ...

Kansas State University researchers have received a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Global Centers program to develop sensors that can more accurately detect nutrients, ...

In 2020, global agricultural emissions were 16 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (an increase of 9 percent since the year 2000) and globally, the 2020 farm gate emission represented nearly ...

Soil holds the promise of capturing greenhouse-gas emissions to help slow global warming. Companies are now working to measure how soil stores carbon as they encourage farming techniques that reduce ...

The condition of your soil affects how it will retain moisture after a rainstorm or irrigation. Learn why your soil still ...