By creating the Soil Conservation Service and a new suite of conservation programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal government provided our nation’s farmers with the ...

Conservation tillage methods are more widely adopted than cover cropping. Combined, no-till or reduced tillage is used on over 200 million acres of cropland nationwide, nearly equally split between no ...

To better conserve soil ecological values, we must know where their protection is needed most. For plants and animals living above the soil, hotspots of biodiversity were identified decades ago.

Prioritising soil nature conservation in international policies The researchers compared these priority hotspots to those areas that are already protected. They found that half of the hotspots ...

Joshua Anderson, Three Rivers Soil Conservation District manager, in Walsh County, North Dakota, where the 2014 NDSU showed that a site had a loss of 19 inches of topsoil from 1960, believes that ...

Soil conservation in the U.S. started with this agency 90 years ago. Now its future is uncertain Harvest Public Media | By Anna Pope Published May 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM CDT Listen • 4:22 ...

But it’s still the early days of soil sound research. And many questions remain before soil acoustics is put to use for conservation efforts or to monitor restoration, Robinson said.

Grand Forks County Soil Conservation District technician Nathan Rokke, left, and David Grubb, a SCD temporary worker, plant trees on land northwest of Grand Forks on May 16, 2023.

Heather Silvanik is the director of the Fayette County Soil and Water Conservation Board. This story was originally published November 3, 2022 at 8:32 AM.