The old Bray-1 method required multiple samples to provide a full nutrient picture of the sample, slowing the process and increasing the cost. In contrast, the new method, called Mehlich-3, requires ...

The price of soil sample testing at the Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory is being reduced as the lab adopts a new testing method.

Understanding Soil Tests: testing remains one of the most valuable tools available to growers, but knowing how to ...

STATEWIDE –A free state program is giving Hoosier farmers more information about what their soil needs — and what it doesn’t.

Yale researchers find contamination on SC farmland, the latest in the unfolding saga of forever chemical pollution in the Palmetto State ...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced that in a reversal from its original position would be providing soil testing to 100 properties in the Eaton fire area. Last March, members ...

The N.C. Department of Transportation could close lanes and shoulders of a New Hanover County road so crews can safely test soil for a future project. Contractors will perform drilling operations on ...

Since losing her home in the Eaton Fire, Carolina Chacon has been concerned about rebuilding on potentially contaminated soil. "After the first big rain storm in October, we developed a sinkhole under ...

When it comes to growing cotton, success starts before a single seed is planted. Many growers focus on managing cotton after it has emerged, but successful management begins below the surface and ...

For more than a century, a smelting plant in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, spewed lead-laced smoke across the city. As the toxic metal drifted toward the ground, approximately 400 million pounds of it — ...