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Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: ...

Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the region’s devastating fires earlier this year, ...

From my interactions with farmers, one critical step I have noticed they always ignore is soil testing. Soil testing is the process of analysing the contents of your soil to find out the composition ...