A crowd gathers around the USDA NRCS live rainfall simulator which demonstrates the outcome of different soil health practices, led by Nathan Meuller, USDA NRCS state soil health specialist, at the WCREEC Water, Crops and Soil Health Field Day on Sept. 5. (Photo by Bijesh Maharjan)

Nebraska soil health school: an accomplishment of goals through collaboration

  • By Nicole Heldt │ University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Forests play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Photo: Hank Stelzer, University of Missouri Extension forestry state specialist)

Report: Missouri forests play role in long-term carbon storage

A field of wheat with poor tillering and low vigor, growing on a field with a soil pH of 4.6. (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)

Lime acidic soils after long-term nitrogen applications

  • By Jacob Klaudt │ K-State Research and Extension news service
A farmer plants soybeans into a cover crop stand of cereal. (Photo courtesy of Jason Johnson/Iowa NRCS)

Collaboration to explore impact of cover crops

Soil moisture is defined as the ratio of the volume of water to the volume of soil. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

Soil Health School set in South Dakota

Soil moisture is defined as the ratio of the volume of water to the volume of soil. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

New focus for Nebraska Soil Health School

University of Missouri Extension and partners will hold a free forest and wildlife management workshop Sept. 9 at the property of Bill and Margie Haag in Portland, Missouri. (Photo courtesy of Brian Schweiss.)

Two ranches selected as conservation finalists

Kansas NRCS announces Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Conservation Stewardship Program funding