One of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) most sought after tools was recently updated. Ninety-four percent of all soil survey areas nationwide recently had their information ...

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 ...

From tilling, planting and harvesting crops, most farmers know what sections of their ground are most productive or where problems exist, such as saline areas. Most operators want to know, “How good ...

A soil map available online. POLK COUNTY, Ore. — Soil science has come a long way since Milton Whitney in 1899 began surveying soils in the tobacco lands of Connecticut. Whitney’s project to match ...

Soils come in many different colors, described by hue, value, and chroma (Munsell color system). Using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) online Web Soil Survey (WSS) to discover the ...

The Native Plant Society of Texas, Fredericksburg Chapter, will welcome Warren Day to their Sept. 23 meeting. Day is the ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...