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 ...

Soil mapping by agricultural scientists at the National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) is crucial for sustainable development, particularly in agriculture and land management. It provides ...

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 ...

Routinely used in the arable sector for a number of years, soil mapping is catching on among grassland farmers as a means of better targeting nutrients and driving overall farm efficiencies. Soil ...

Dr. Brandon Heung likes thinking about soil. “I certainly liked digging holes and things like that as a kid, but I guess a lot of my interest in soil is that it is the interface of many of our vital ...

Long left in the dust by their peers in climate research, a small group of soil scientists is spearheading an effort to apply rigorous computer analysis to the ground beneath our feet. Their goal: to ...

Maps are deeply political. They are not simple statements of location but are expressions of power, resources and culture. We do well, therefore, to understand not just what a map shows but how it is ...