The crunch of a plow tearing through rich, dark soil has long been the anthem of gardeners and farmers gearing up for a new ...

The system is designed to mimic mechanical impedance and to identify genotypes with contrasting tolerance to compaction—fast enough to support ...

A UC Davis soil scientist says three themes should drive research and policy in sustaining California agriculture under climate change. UC Davis Professor Emerita Louise Jackson saw hope in the fact ...

The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, according to new research. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

Volatile and extreme weather conditions have become the new normal. In one season, heavy rain waterlogs fields and flushes soil into rivers; in the next, heatwaves bake the ground hard. But, as Soil ...

Adding wheat (or other small grains) into crop rotations opens the door to possibility. Not only do these crops invite you to plant a diverse cover crop and graze it, adding a small-grain crop can lay ...

The European Commission has adopted a Soil Monitoring Law to improve food security and limit global warming. Its adoption has been well received, but doubts cast over the proposal’s level of ambition.

So far, I have examined how two dispossessed peoples—Indigenous communities in Connecticut and Palestinians—have faced environmental degradation as a consequence of displacement and dispossession.

The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, according to new research. Soil resilience is the ability of soils to withstand, ...