AG Week

Understanding soil types is key to effective farming and ranching

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 soils ...
AOL

6 Types of Soil—Plus, the Best Plants to Grow in Each

Depending on where you live, you're likely to have one of six different types of soil: loam, clay, sandy, silty, chalk, or peat. Knowing which type of soil you have in your yard is important—and will ...
Yahoo

Clay, silty or sandy? Testing your soil type is an essential part of becoming a good gardener

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soil type affects how it retains water and nutrients.Photograph: iStock/Getty Images (Photograph: iStock/Getty Images) I often ...
The Conversation

Healthy soil can help grow more food and cut emissions – but government inaction means too much soil is being degraded

The soil beneath our feet is a living entity. It is home to many microbes on Earth responsible for crucial processes such as decomposition and supporting plant health. Organic compounds in the soil, ...