Farmers Edge is opening its laboratory testing services up to the public, offering agribusinesses, retailers and farmers access to soil and plant tissue testing. With soil labs in the U.S. and Canada, ...

A new study from Caltech demonstrates that soil bacteria can adapt under stress, particularly when a key nutrient, phosphorus ...

To study soil with a view to ecosystems, researchers iterate between experiments in the lab, the field and controlled environments. Soil harbors worlds of life: earthworms and nematodes, mites and ...

For farmers wanting to know more about their soil health, for the parents worried there might be contaminants in the backyard, for graduate students conducting research, a new lab on the University of ...

Soil microbiology research increasingly depends on big data. This means that experiments will no longer only mostly be carried out under controlled conditions in the laboratory but will instead move ...

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Microbiologist Martin Reinhard Rasmussen has developped and built the MARTINIS system as part of his PhD project at Aarhus University. Here he is in the field with his prototype. As a courtesy to the ...

Anxious about the rueful state of his peas, radishes and onions, Rod Marquardt arrived at the University of Minnesota’s soil testing laboratory with two lunch bag-sized containers of dirt. “We’re just ...