While molecular ecology is widely recognized as a useful tool for studying soil biodiversity and health, there are significant barriers to implementing these techniques to samples collected in remote ...

Earth’s soil contains large stocks of carbon — even more carbon than in the atmosphere. A significant portion of this soil carbon is in organic form (carbon bound to carbon), called soil organic ...

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 ...

A typical ground investigation for characterizing geotechnical properties of soil requires sampling soils to test in a laboratory. Laboratory X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been used to ...

When observing unexplained stunting, wilting, or death in crops. When planting into a field with a history of nematodes. In areas with prior poor performance. In fall when nematode populations should ...

COLUMBIA — The price of soil sample testing at the University of Missouri Extension Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory is being reduced by half as the lab adopts a new soil testing method. Under the ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Soil crucial to sequestering carbon but challenges in monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) Scientists and farmers ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...