The Soil Health Institute recently announced the release of a free phone application, Slakes, to empower and engage citizens around the world to measure aggregate stability: one of the most common ...

Soil aggregates are groups of individual soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than adjacent particles. Aggregates that don’t fall apart and revert to individual soil particles when ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

While traditional soil testing has focused on chemistry, a growing range of tools are now available to help farmers assess the biological and structural function of soils. Soil health relies on the ...

The precision agriculture industry hasn’t done a great job articulating the value of site-specific soil testing, which has led to frustration from farmers, who aren’t sure how to use what they learn ...

UNL Maharjan Soil Science Lab students toured Ward Laboratories in Nebraska, seeing soil testing processes that link ...