Of the tests to do before planting in your garden, a drainage test is among the best (and easiest). Try this quick drainage ...

Bioengineering professor Shalini Prasad (left), Vikram Narayanan Dhamu, doctor of bioengineering (center) and graduate student Mohammed Eldeeb hold parts of a device they developed to measure soil ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

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Doug Palen runs a family farm in north-central Kansas, a place he’s called home all his life. Since he started farming for himself in the early 1990s, he’s tried any number of tests that measure soil ...

Soils, like people, can be healthy or unhealthy. We’ve recently learned how important the microbes inside our bodies are to human health. Likewise, soil health depends on a complex group of microbes.

MONTREAL, Nov. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carbon markets have long faced a dilemma: how to measure soil carbon at scale without losing scientific rigour. ChrysaLabs has just proven it can be done.

Researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes. They used a probe originally developed to measure the electrochemical signal ...

Soil holds the promise of capturing greenhouse-gas emissions to help slow global warming. Companies are now working to measure how soil stores carbon as they encourage farming techniques that reduce ...

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