A soil blocker is exactly as it sounds. It's a tool for making small cubes of soil for seedlings, so you don't need to use plastic seed trays. Gardening expert Jane Dobbs explains 'Soil blockers ...

The tool is part of a toolbox located within a website that helps advisers, farmers and policy-makers to identify cost-effective methods in order to optimise yield and soil carbon stocks for ...

When seeds are planted beneath the soil they enter a new world—a world farmers have long tried to understand and perfect. What would you do if you had a window that showed what is going on ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have teamed up to produce a new tool that will provide farmers, meteorologists and researchers with access to high-resolution data on soil moisture.

The Midwestern Regional Climate Center, which is housed at Purdue University, is launching a new tool in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Midwest Climate Hub to provide soil ...

“Since crop growth is an indicator of soil health, we hope to use our tool to provide feedback on the soil of an entire field, with all of its variabilities.” Regular soil sampling—critical to ...