Almost half of the world’s habitable land is utilized intensively for food production with farming practices. According to Our World in Data, 37% of Earth’s total land area is used for agriculture, ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...

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To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing on properties destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades ...

The hidden crisis from the devastating wildfires in January affected those who did not lose their homes. However, the onslaught of smoke and ash from the wind-whipped urban fires in the Palisades and ...