Soil & Water Management

A Michigan grower and his grandson standing in a field of mixed cover crop species, which provide numerous benefits, including the ability to have an advantage when bidding for rented land.

Assessing on-farm economics of soil health

May 27, 2021

Applying potassium to a field. Source: Design Pics Inc./Alamy Stock Photo.

The potassium paradox

May 27, 2021

Photo by Shannon Cappellazzi.

Assessing soil health: Measuring the soil microbiome

March 3, 2021

Soil sample collection from a production field in southern Idaho. Source: Rogers et al., 2018 (https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2018.01.0054).

Assessing soil health: Soil nitrogen cycling

December 29, 2020

Figure 1, Image of an earthworm cocoon collected from an agricultural field near Moscow, ID.

Earthworms and their importance to agricultural soils in the inland Pacific Northwest

December 29, 2020

Source: USDA-NRCS.

Assessing soil health: Soil carbon cycling and storage

November 3, 2020

Cover crop diversity over time or with mixed-species plantings is desirable to provide multiple cropping system benefits. Photo by Meg Housman.

Cover crop management in semi-arid regions: Effect on soil and cash crop

September 7, 2020

The Cornell Sprinkle Infiltrometer can be used to measure wet aggregate stability. Photo courtesy of Robert Schindelbeck, Director, Cornell Soil Health Laboratory.

Assessing soil health: Soil water cycling

September 7, 2020

Flooded cornfield. Photo courtesy of Gurpreet Kaur.

Management practices to reduce crop production and nitrogen losses from waterlogging

July 3, 2020

Gypsum application in an Arizona pecan orchard. Photo by Jim Walworth.

Determining the gypsum requirement for reclamation of sodic and sodium-impacted soils

May 4, 2020

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