Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Lab tour shows how color variations in Midwest soils signal a need for customized nutrient management and seeding strategies.

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...

Follow a soil sample through SureTech Labs in Indianapolis, from the incoming bag of soil to the numbers on your results report.

With sky-high fertilizer prices, you want to take a Goldilocks approach for applications — not too much, not too little but just right. How can you perfectly sync your rates to each field’s needs? “If ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

The hidden crisis from the devastating wildfires in January affected those who did not lose their homes. However, the onslaught of smoke and ash from the wind-whipped urban fires in the Palisades and ...

LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaiʻi — The first soil samples were collected at a property site cleared of debris by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kula, marking a milestone with the Hawaiʻi Wildfires Debris ...