David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...
After a fall harvest and before the spring planting season, soil is typically cultivated so it can become more fertile and welcoming for plant growth. All farmers practice at least one type of tillage ...
The use of native prairie grasses and flowers in row-crop land has evolved from an Iowa State University research project ...
Field water management sits at the heart of agricultural resilience. In an era of intensifying drought, expanding salinization, and progressive soil ...
Eric Hange of Medina SWCD shares how rainfall simulators and student curiosity are helping build a new generation of ...
Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. To assess global hotspots for preserving soil ecological values, an international team of ...
On May 16, a rare dust storm pushed across northern Illinois, northern Indiana and the Chicago metropolitan area. Pictured here is the storm approaching Bloomington, Illinois. Soil and Water ...
Panelists discussed farming techniques for moisture conservation during the water panel at Soil Health U 2024, held in January. Wes McCary, tech projects coordinator at the Kansas Water Office, ...
All of Greg Thoren's cows are technically identified by the number on their ear tag. But when he drives around his pastures checking in on his animals, they go by another name: Sweetie.
Most of us weren’t around to see the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But a mixture of drought and poor farming practices saw the topsoil of a half dozen states stripped away. Picture the dusty and desolate ...
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