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

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

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, ...

The Dare Soil and Water Conservation District (DSWCD) held its inaugural Teachers’ Coastal Conservation Workshop on Monday, ...

A scientist and leader in the organic farming movement, she popularized the “soil food web,” an understanding that soil is a ...

New research finds that one in five assessed soil‑dependent species is threatened with extinction on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity ...

Beginning in the 2017 growing season, The Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council (INREC) has worked over the past six years with Iowa State University and local ag retailers to study the progress ...

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 ...

Iowa NRCS Area Resource Soil Scientist Jason Steele uses his farming experience to train NRCS staff and build stronger relationships with farmers Soil scientist – to many people – may sound like a ...

Five Western Slope soil conservation districts have joined a coalition to commit funding toward the Shoshone Water Rights ...