A year ago we showed you how poor management can destroy soil health and reduce yield (“A Tale of Two Soils,” October 2013). Farm A and Farm B are less than a mile apart and contain the same makeup of ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Soils are water reservoirs for crop production. Dr. Elwyn Taylor, Iowa State University climatologist reports that 200-bushel corn needs 19-23 inches of water during the growing season. For 200-bushel ...

Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground for centuries, buoys soil fertility, and echoes the legendary A ...