The 2007 cropping season has been very dry for a large portion of the state and harvest started at a rapid pace. From mid-September to Oct. 22, the state has received an abundance of rainfall, ...

Yet in winter, it can be constantly wet and waterlogging is common ... easy to dig over and spongy to the touch, peaty soil can be soaking in winter and dry during most of the summer.

Whether installing a new fence or repairing the old, there are several ways to set a post, and there is a variety of factors ...

Many larger farmers or those in strictly corn, soybean rotations are apprehensive about using cover crops to Flip their Soil, and that is especially true for farmers in drier climates. However, in ...

Recent applications of molecular genetics to edaphic microbial communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and elsewhere have rejected a long-held belief that Antarctic soils contain extremely limited ...

They identified three key states: very wet soil (where moisture doesn't affect temperature much), very dry soil (where there's little cooling effect), and a middle state where soil moisture has ...

Choose shrubs, trees and perennials that thrive in wet soil. Trees and shrubs that do well in moist conditions include salix, cornus, betula, sambucus, liquidambar, ash and amelanchier.

The unseasonal weather of the last year could bring both positive and negative impacts onto farmers this upcoming growing season. In a typical year, Minnesota sees lighter, fluffier snow from December ...

The activity of organisms is dictated by soil temperature, so additional nitrogen in the spring will not affect the rate of decomposition early in the season if cool and wet conditions persist.

The area needs at least a couple of inches of liquid precipitation in the coming months to avoid extremely dry springtime ...