Not only is it a popular choice among homeowners and landscapers for its ability to establish quickly, but its root system has been shown to effectively control soil erosion in a range of climates.

This type of soil contains at least 25 percent clay and is particularly good at holding nutrients due to the microscopic structure of each clay particle, explains Anton Ledin, the in-house plant ...

Comfrey plants, an alternative to daikons, can improve gardens with tough, compact soil by breaking up and aerating ...

Soil erosion is an enemy to any nation—far worse than any outside enemy coming into a country and conquering it, because it’s ...

Contour planting helps reduce soil erosion and water runoff.When crops are planted down a slope, water flows quickly through the rows, especially during heavy rain.Instead of percolating into the ...

Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, is a process that removes the upper layer of soil, from which plants get most of their nutrients and water. When this fertile layer, called the ...

CAPUTA, S.D.— Understanding your soil type is a vital tool to developing your farming and ranching practices. “Those properties of the soils dictate how we are going to basically utilize those ...

Today, large areas of the world’s lands are suffering from severe soil erosion, thus land degradation. In general, the main causes of soil erosion and land degradation stem from indiscriminate ...

The Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Program focuses on the study of physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in the soils of different landforms and ecosystems. These studies assess ...

Ten years later, travels across North Dakota during the winter of 2024-25 indicated that wind erosion remains the greatest threat to the state’s soil health, Carlos Pires and Brady Goettl, NDSU ...

Not only is it a popular choice among homeowners and landscapers for its ability to establish quickly, but its root system has been shown to effectively control soil erosion in a range of climates ...