Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...

Explore bioremediation as a sustainable solution for pollution. Learn how microorganisms break down harmful substances effectively.

Think carefully about what is added to gardens, and seek out good information. Some things are helpful, some are neutral and some may even be harmful to soil or plants.

Lopez-Nicora: Start with any lack of emergence. Dig in those rows and see if the seeds were affected or if the seed has ...

Preparing a seedbed. “Tilling helps prepare a uniform seedbed,” says Enroth. This makes it easier to plant seeds directly in ...

This important question was recently posed by farmer Barclay Daranyi to a group of sixth through eighth grade Nucla agriculture students and residents from across San Miguel and Montrose counties.

Regulatory frameworks are another major force accelerating change in the herbicides sector. Policies like the European Green ...

Stevenson’s work focuses on mycoremediation, a technique that uses fungi to rehabilitate polluted land. Mycoremediation ...

Here are a few ways mushrooms can benefit soil health. Decomposers are any organisms that help break down dead material and return nutrients into the surrounding environment. Insects like pill bugs ...

This indicates that the bioavailability of DDT to soil organisms had been reduced—meaning that the soil had become less toxic, with a lower risk of DDT spreading via bioaccumulation in the food ...

Differing soil nematode community compositions between treated and untreated soils highlight the impacts of pesticides on beneficial nontarget organism populations. The study finds body length and ...

“The more invertebrates that are in the soil, the more active that they are ... it effectively stimulated organism growth. Of course, this result is preliminary, but offers up major implications ...