Soil nutrients are not even. They are not even across a field and they are not even with soil depth. Nutrients can differ drastically just a few inches of soil away. This is true even in ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

During the lull of late fall to early spring, when turfgrasses are dormant, many LCOs may experience a decline in revenue-generating opportunities. Some companies take up extra jobs such as snow ...

When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens and lawns, but also the value of recommendations that result from soil test ...

Michigan State University will close its historic soil testing laboratory by the end of the year. MSU has tested samples since 1920, at a time when farmers and gardeners had few places to analyze the ...

We are now in a transition period with our gardens, lawns and landscapes, so it is important to evaluate your soil during this period. This is often overlooked and is the root cause of many plant ...

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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring." -- Aldo Leopold. Q: I am planning a vegetable garden near an old garage, which has been ...

Gabriella Coughlin, an agronomist for the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, sits inside an excavated soil pit that will be used in demonstrations at Los Ranchos Agri-Nature Center. The new soil, ...