Soil health is a vital factor in the global food production system, influencing both the quality and safety of the food we consume. It integrates a variety of biological, chemical, and physical ...

In the late 1990s, South Dakota farmer Kurt Stiefvater was ready to give up on the transition to no-till. He’d been no-tilling crops for a decade. But he admits he didn’t understand how it really ...

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 ...

As a non-agriculture CEO, you may first think, “What does soil have to do with my business?” My answer is everything. Soil is literally and figuratively the ground on which every business is built.

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 ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

High Plains Journal staff is preparing for the 2024 Soil Health U event, scheduled for Jan. 17 to 18 in Salina, Kansas, at the Tony’s Pizza Event Center. These two days of education are packed with ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

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 ...

Are you a soil health data enthusiast and innovator with a solution for Africa? You have an opportunity to participate in the Data for Soil Health Challenge and/or Innovation Challenge – 2025 to ...