Chicago, Feb. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Soil monitoring refers to the systematic process of observing, measuring, and analyzing various parameters related to soil health and quality over time.

UD's Soils Judging Team traveled to the National Soils Judging competition this past semester after taking first place at the regional competition in Pennsylvania. The team utilized this past year to ...

In the Av soil horizon, fine dust particles settle and pockets of air form beneath the soil. These cavities trap water at the surface to be used by soil microbes and desert plants when it's needed ...

O horizon: This is the top layer of soil that is made up of living and decomposed materials like leaves, plants, and bugs. This layer is very thin and is usually pretty dark.

To really know a soil, it's not what you see, but what you can't see. That's why the U.S. Soil Survey is such a valuable resource ... One term often used in the survey is "soil horizon".

A spodosol has a gray horizon from which acids have leached nutrients, depositing it in the reddish horizon below. Photo by Audrey Clark. Editor’s note: Landscape Confidential is an occasional ...

The South Australian Government's 'New Horizons' soil improvement program has sparked more questions than answers among grain producers. Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell described the program as ...

Soil Sampling Identifies Multiple New Targets at Volta's Falcon ... is based on the partial extraction of soil samples systematically collected from a specific depth below the organic soil horizon.