University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...

The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about ...

Conservation tillage practices, such as no-till and reduced till, are critical for sustainable agriculture, and they are ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed over the weekend could spell disaster, but the ...

Farmers in a time crunch have a new, speedier option for analyzing the texture and organic matter content of the soil on their fields. Gerson Drescher, assistant professor of soil fertility for the ...

Students act as environmental consultants to evaluate the impact of different land use scenarios on soil erosion. In this lab report, students assess the impact of landscape alteration on area ...

Fall soil conditions across the Upper Colorado River Basin are not as dry as in the past few years, but the amount of moisture packed into the dirt heading into winter is still below long-term ...

The world faces an increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a shortage of carbon in the soil. However, bioenergy sorghum can provide meaningful relief from both problems, according to ...