USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced recently that soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely used website ...

ST. PAUL — Want to know more about your dirt? There’s an app for that. The soils smart phone application was developed by graduate students at the University of California-Davis and is now available ...

Web Soil Survey, the internet program developed by NRCS to provide soil maps, properties and interpretations for various land usage, is now better than ever. The web site launched in August 2005, has ...

Only about 9% of the 77,000+ acres burned by the Mosquito Fire burned at a "high" intensity, according to data compiled in the soil survey Only about 9% of the 77,000+ acres burned by the Mosquito ...

As a gardener, you no doubt know that the most critical factors in your garden are your soil type, how much sun you get and precipitation. It can take a lot of observation and time to figure this out ...

“Soil moisture is just a memory creator,” Elise Osenga, community science manager at Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), said at a summit in Carbondale on May 11. “It’s this memory of what’s ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...