Managing soil pH is crucial for maximizing crop yields and promoting overall soil health. The optimal soil pH is typically between 5.5 and 7.0 for most crops growing in Delaware. Maintaining a ...

All soils upon which the plant cover has wilted through lack of water will still be found to contain moisture, varying in amount from less than ~ per cent in coarse sands to 25 per cent in the ...

SOIL permeability or hydraulic conductivity is of great importance in the engineering design of foundations, dams, sub-surface drainage systems, irrigation systems, etc. In spite of its importance, ...

Question: What’s the difference between soil pH and buffer pH? My soil has a pH of 5.1 and a buffer pH of 6.7. Answer: Soil pH is the measure of active acidity. Active acidity is soil solution ...

The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Rui Santos, Oliver Buettel, and Siqi Sun. EN 16174:2012 analyzes multi-elements in the dissolution of treated biowaste, sludge, and sediment in ...

KEARNEY— As Ward Laboratory marks its 40th anniversary this week, people in agriculture are calling Ray Ward, the company’s founder, the prophet of soil testing. “Ray loves to teach and does an ...

Change the organisms that live in soil and you can change the kinds of plants that grow in it. A field trial in the Netherlands has found that adding a thin layer of soil from a healthy ecosystem to ...