From left to right, Xin Zhang, Vitor S. Martins and Nuwan Wijewardane, MAFES scientists and assistant professors in Mississippi State’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, are ...

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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 ...

Soil organic carbon stocks are the amount of organic carbon found in soil. There are several common ways of measuring these stocks. Until now they were all believed to give pretty much the same ...

Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more ...

Texas A&M researchers found that deep soil testing can offset some crop production costs by helping account for residual ...

During the lull of late fall to early spring, when turfgrasses are dormant, many LCOs may experience a decline in revenue-generating opportunities. Some companies take up extra jobs such as snow ...

A garden may appear to be perfect on the surface and still fail spectacularly underneath. That rich, dark soil might promise ...

Some gardens explode with life while others struggle, and the difference almost always starts underground. Soil holds secrets ...