A project starting in central Iowa can help reduce fertilizer application, writes Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig.

Gardening experts share the easiest way to tell if your soil is ready for spring planting and offer a few plants worth sowing ...

Botanists studied moss that was buried with bodies that were illegally moved from their original graves, and the results were ...

Tilling involves turning over the soil and adding amendments to get it ready for planting. Learn when it's most beneficial to ...

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

Most producers have begun field operations in preparation for spring planting. Our pastures have initiated their early-season ...

Don't let them go to waste.

Soil sample testing will be offered, free of charge, on Saturday, April 25, from 10 AM to noon at the Jonathan Bourne Library. The Aptucxet Garden Club of Bourne, in ...

Free program will collect residual nitrogen data in key watersheds to help farmers optimize fertilizer application rates.

The smell of rotten eggs permeates Steve Egger's Southern California home, especially at night, as the nearby Tijuana River ...

Boaz spent the afternoon with the Allegheny County Conservation District learning how to test soil for lead.

At the center of the story sits a simple idea with outsized force: if buying soil becomes easy, gardening stops feeling like ...