Growers Wanted for Soil Health Project
A new national effort called Probing Our Country’s Soil Health is focused on creating a free and user-friendly tool for farmers to benchmark the soil health of their fields. The…
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Onion Farming 2.0: Technologies Reshaping Crop Cultivation
By Vasyl Cherlinka After well over five thousand years of practice, onion farming has reached the modern era of technology, where algorithms and machines do many once laborious duties, such…
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Farming With Soil Life: A Handbook for Supporting Soil Invertebrates and Soil Health
Smart farmers know that healthy soil hosts a flourishing and diverse ecosystem of bacteria, fungi and invertebrates. But the complex relationships between soil life, productivity and resilience are not well…
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What Affects How Well Soil Holds Water?
Since the beginning of agriculture, people have recognized that a sufficient water supply is essential for crop production. The capacity of soil to store and supply water for plant growth…
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PNW Fumigation Training August 8 & 9
Two Fumigation Stewardship Training meetings will be held in Washington. 1) August 8, 2023 in Moses Lake at the Big Bend Community College2) August 9, 2023 in Kennewick at the…
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MSU Researchers Receive $750K Grant to Study Soil Health Amid Changing Rainfall Patterns
A team of Michigan State University researchers has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to evaluate soil health changes from…
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