USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced recently that soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely used website ...

Beyond snow and ice data, the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and distributes soil moisture data sets that directly support American agriculture. These data help farmers, ...

But getting data was a problem, since this generally required taking soil samples and then analyzing them in the lab, which is slow and often expensive. Recent advances in wireless data communications ...

By choosing which crops to plant in their fields, Canadian prairie farmers may be able to boost their bottom line while also ...

It comes as no surprise to architects and engineers that clay-rich soils which retain lots of moisture are unstable. Clay soils have a water-holding capacity of about 1.35-2.5 in. of water per foot of ...