News Releases Archive

November 2016

• The economy of cold soil blues
• Writing an equation for soil success
• Students, teachers invited to “Grow With It!”
• Matchmaking for coffee?
• Pilgrims and soil: what’s the connection?
• Shedding a light on contaminants
• Beware of radon risk

October 2016

• Nutrition information…for cows?
• Wisconsin dairy industry sets standard for sustainability
• Agronomy, crops and soils lectures live streamed
• Growing industrial hemp in eastern Canada: a new frontier
• Soil moisture for crop health topic of symposium
• Digging into Florida
• USAID food security program in review
• Getting maximum profit, minimal pollution
• Symposium to discuss crops grown in semiarid regions
• Sustainable intensification research topic of agronomy symposium
• Symposium promotes versatile, vital pulse crops
• Tidy farms, healthy streams
• Desert, city overlap explored in Phoenix
• Soil: more than meets the eye

September 2016

• One Health environmental program topic of symposium
• Solution blooming for fracking spills?
• Multi-disciplinary innovation for fiber topic of symposium
• Counting carbon on the farm topic of symposium
• Space agriculture topic of symposium
• Intercropping: Intersection of soil health, production
• Novel crops topic of symposium
• Lecture to discuss ag innovations in arid regions
• Organic panic: finding the right combination
• Symposium addresses the science of the rhizosphere
• Symposium to address measurements important for water-limited agricultural systems
• Soils and landscapes of the Southwestern United States topic of symposium
• Taking advantage of plants’ little fungal helpers
• Seed quality topic of symposium
• There’s more to beans than you think
• The relationship between soil color and climate

August 2016

• Cowpeas are the answer. What’s the question?
• Meeting theme: Resilience emerging from scarcity and abundance
• Winter pulse, spring harvest
• Sayonara, kudzu bug?
• What “cover crops” could home gardeners consider in the fall?
• Hashtags, turf, and classrooms
• Trading farmland for nitrogen protection
• Why do soils need amending?

July 2016

• Water resilience that flows
• More for less in pastures
• The power of scientific meetings
• How are beaches restored?
• Upstream trenches, downstream nitrogen
• Agroforestry helps farmers branch out
• Cowan named ICCA of the Year
• When a beach is more than a beach

June 2016

• Protein in, ammonia out
• A “Fitbit” for plants?
• Keeping urban rainwater out of streams
• Rethinking stink about antibiotics in manure
• Helping satellites be right as rain
• Using biosolids to fix cities
• Peas and prosperity

May 2016

• Following tricky triclosan
• Genetic engineering report findings supported by Crop, Agronomy Societies
• City of second chance soils
• How does water move through soil?
• From broken to teaming with life
• Feeling the pulse of Africa
• New book on biochar published
• Keeping a pulse on the soil
• The master variable of soil science: pH
• Soil Science Society of America Wins 2016 Gold Circle Award for Excellence in Association Communications from ASAE

April 2016

• Quilting with soil
• Crop advances grow with protection
• Bringing nitrogen out to pasture
• Science of Industrial Hemp Conference Announced
• Soil microbes, soil health and nutrient availability
• How does your (school) garden grow?
• Downwind safety on the farm
• Kirkham Gold Medal Honors Soil Scientist van Genuchten
• Cool beans: beneficial faba braves a freeze
• Planting your new purchases

March 2016

• Laser reveals water’s secret life in soil
• Celebrate Soy Foods Month with Coolbean
• Digging a proper hole in the soil
• Lummis presented with 2016 SSSA Excellence Award
• Modeling to save a rare plant
• Sorghum: not so ho-hum
• Consider an organic approach to your lawn
• Battling the blight
• Journal publishes special section on antibiotics in agroecosystems
• Reduce, reuse, recycle: safe for water?
• From dead leaves to rich soil

February 2016

• New journal to focus on agricultural, environmental issues
• Potatoes wild with calcium
• Crop Science Society sending students to Zambia for conference
• The upstanding, outstanding pinto bean
• CCA program offers soil health seminar
• Garden plant residues can improve soil
• Tall Fescue and Fungal Endophyte Cooperation Varied
• Healing the soil
• Ag and food research funding supported
• Not your grandfather’s cotton
• Microbes alive in Antarctic soils, how can that be?

January 2016

• Andean bean: Small bean for sweet dreams
• Data-driven decisions on South Dakota land
• Winter Soils-Still Alive
• Ancient going on nouveau
• One crop, two ways, multiple benefits
• Indoor gardeners: Potting soil better than backyard soil

December 2015

• Bring in a healthy new year
• Plants, soils take to the streets
• 2016 Named International Year of Pulses
• Will grassland soil weather a change?
• How are soils used in cosmetics?
• Flushed resource restores ecosystem
• Fries with a side of acrylamide

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