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Aaron Daigh, SSSA President

Small in space and time: Musings from a leisurely walk

August 19, 2026

The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) K-12 Outreach Committee has expanded its “Featured Topics in Soils” collection on Soils4Teachers.org to include: Soils and Pollinators, Soils and Flooding, and Urban Soils. Photos courtesy of (l to r): Patricia Marie Cordero Irizarry, SSSA Soils Matter blog, and Adobe Stock.

Unlocking the quiet power of soil: New featured topics available on Soils4Teachers.org

August 18, 2026

Representative corn plants grown under low (left) and high (right) soil-test potassium (K) conditions in a 41-year field trial on a Coastal Plain sandy loam soil in North Carolina. Despite contrasting long-term soil K management, plants exhibited similar overall growth, illustrating the limited visual response observed under conditions where K-bearing minerals continued to supply K. Photo courtesy of Dionata (John) Filippi, North Carolina State University.

Soil potassium forms may help to sustain crops and reduce the need for fertilizer

August 17, 2026

Wade Thomason, ASA President

Helping students discover our sciences as viable career paths

August 14, 2026

Research assistants, Megan Galvin, left, and Jenna Kokoskie, right, taking samples at the site of the Cover Crop Cocktails experiment at Penn State. Photo by Emma Rice.

Farmer-inspired cover crop research yields more than a decade of insights

August 13, 2026

How do you explain and demonstrate hydrophobicity? With all the wildfires, many teachers have heard about it and want to know why it is important or how they can communicate it to their class. Learn about this and more at the Demo Den in the exhibit hall during this year’s CANVAS meeting.

Demo Den: Ready-to-go activities for K-12 audiences and beyond!

August 12, 2026

In memoriam: Johnie N. Jenkins

In memoriam: Johnie N. Jenkins

August 11, 2026

Cereal cover crops being irrigated. Photo courtesy of Eric Brennan, USDA–ARS.

Simple ways to predict a cover crop’s carbon-to-nitrogen ratio

August 11, 2026

U.S. capitol.

Congress' last legislative moves before August recess

August 10, 2026

Volunteers and coaches at the Fifth International Soil Judging Contest. Courtesy of International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) volunteers.

Behind the scenes of the Fifth International Soil Judging Contest

August 6, 2026

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