
Tag Archives soil science

Promise of self-fertilizing attracts investment
Bayer bets big on a future where crops are designed to fertilizer themselves

Farming through the drought cycles
Soils and Crops: Even with modern ag technology, we’re still reliant on rain or soil moisture

Controlling traffic to improve your soil
A new test offers another way to test soil quality improvements

Farm it like you’re ‘just’ renting it?
Do farmers look after rented farmland differently than land they own? Should they?

Growing crops in saline soil
Sometimes dividing up the field is the best solution to salinity

Measuring soil’s benefits from CTF
A new test offers a way to measure improvements from controlled traffic farming

Getting to the root of the matter
In the third of a three-part series, Les Henry looks at roots of field and garden crops

Back to the root of the matter
In Part 2 of a 3-part series, Les Henry talks about perennial crop roots

Getting to the root of the matter
For a look at the big picture, the ‘old’ research on roots is still relevant today

How’s your moly doing out there?
Molybdenum was once known as ‘poor man’s lime’ for a good reason