Soil health (SH) indicators, such as organic matter (OM) content and enzymatic activity (EA), are critical for assessing the sustainability of mineral soils in integrated and cover cropping systems.

Potentially indicating the location of Noah's Ark, researchers at Turkey's Durupinar site have uncovered promising evidence ...

Key Points Some plant problems can be indicative of other issues besides soil quality.Soil tests can reveal and diagnose ...

The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on decomposition can be regulated by their role in plant nitrogen acquisition due to their obligate biotrophic lifestyle. However, few studies have ...

A new earthworm soil test is offering insights into the biological health of New Zealand vineyards. In 2024 Hill Labs ...

Acidic soils may require liming, sandy soils often need organic matter to hold moisture, and heavy clay soils must be ...

There's not much you can do about plants and seeds that rotted in May's slogfest, but you can do a lot to head off future wet ...

It’s easy to overlook the soil when you’re excited to start planting, but skipping this step can lead to a lot of frustration ...

The quantity of soil organic matter (SOM) was estimated through the determination of soil organic carbon (SOC) times a factor, which assumes that 58% of the SOM was formed by carbon. A number of soil ...

THE compactness of a soil is known to be related to its content of water and air, and to the temperature and the supply of nutrients 1,2. Although a rough estimate of compactness is sometimes ...

Soil organic matter (SOM) is important to fertility, since it performs several functions such as cycling, water and nutrient retention and soil aggregation, in addition to being an energy requirement ...