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 ...

When farmers talk about their soil test results, the conversation often starts and ends with soil pH. While that one number is important to determining whether lime is needed, that insight is just a ...

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 ...

Traditional soil sampling involves collecting samples from multiple locations and sending them to a laboratory for analysis. In the future, the sensor system could perform this process directly in the ...

CASTALIA, Iowa — Trygve Lien's curiosity about agronomy led him to create a test plot and weather station, embark on a volunteer soil sampling project and start a small farming operation. People visit ...

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

Mike Naig is Iowa secretary of agriculture. With input costs high and grain prices low, farmers are feeling the squeeze in this tough ag economy. For farmers looking to save money and embrace ...