Does healthy soil promote productive pasture, or does a productive pasture result in healthy soil? The answer is they go hand-in-hand. A well-managed pasture will promote healthy, productive soil.

Lynette Abbott continues her discussion on soil health by examining the effects of fertilisers on soil organisms ...

Farmers, livestock producers and gardeners interested in improving soil health and learning more about cover crop systems for soil health and livestock nutrition are invited to attend a ...

“Our goal is to evaluate the overall effect of pasture cropping on soil health and function,” he said. “In our cropping systems, we have observed trends in improved microbial activity with an extended ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Including small grains and pasture in crop rotations, and in some cases reducing tillage, can have a significant effect on soil health, according to a joint Purdue-U.S.

The University of Wyoming is among an international coalition that announced a $19 million research project aimed at understanding how a farmer’s or a rancher’s grazing management decisions affect ...

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — On the prairie bluffs south of the Minnesota River near this southwestern Minnesota farm town, Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz grow crops and livestock — and soil. Rather than ...

There’s something satisfying about looking out over a green, healthy pasture. Whether it’s for grazing animals, cutting hay, or just keeping your property maintained, a well-kept field feels like an ...

In the late 1990s, South Dakota farmer Kurt Stiefvater was ready to give up on the transition to no-till. He’d been no-tilling crops for a decade. But he admits he didn’t understand how it really ...

Farmers, livestock producers and gardeners interested in improving soil health and learning more about cover crop systems for ...