Advances in soil mapping and crop suitability analysis are helping farmers identify the right crops for local conditions, ...

A cutting-edge machine learning model has been developed to predict soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, a critical factor for soil health and crop productivity. The innovative approach utilizes ...

Digital soil mapping could slash uncertainty deductions for large soil carbon projects -study; Euro Markets: EUAs remain rangebound as trade volume falls away ahead ...

Precise information about agricultural soils is key to managing them more efficiently and sustainably. Researchers at the Leibniz institutes FBH and ATB have recently enhanced an existing sensor ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

Mike Hodgson, who has died aged 92, was the major force behind the creation of the National Soil Map of England and Wales in ...

The success of precision agriculture relies heavily on the use of pumped groundwater to irrigate crops. However, recent years have seen trends of depletion in many groundwater sources where ...

AMES, Iowa – Climate change and soil erosion feed into one another in an environmental feedback loop that can have big consequences for Iowa land, but an Iowa State University agronomist is developing ...

There is dearth of information on the quality of soils across Africa, including Nigeria. But plans are afoot for a massive soil survey project to be overseen by scientists stationed across the ...