A shovel should slide into healthy soil with satisfying ease. When the blade bounces back like it just struck concrete, the ...

Discover how to loosen compacted soil to set your plants up for spring. Compacted soil deprives plant roots of oxygen and ...

Crack open the surface of your garden soil and pay attention to what shows up. That dusty, dry texture doesn’t just sit there ...

Many aspects of gardening are easy to control—like how much water your plants get and how often you fertilize—while other factors are harder to maintain. Unless you're using raised beds and filling ...

It’s summer blockbuster time, so imagine a movie-scale monster has buried you in a landslide and then stomped on the rocks until you’re pinned in gravel. You can’t move, and you can’t breathe. That’s ...

Soil compaction is considered a consistent problem in modern agriculture. When soils are compacted, we know, plants don’t grow as well. Exactly why that happens, though, has generally just been ...

Soil compaction is the enemy of all landscape plants. Roots take up water, nutrients, and oxygen from the soil. They also use it to anchor themselves in place against strong West Texas winds. But when ...

The calendar may say it’s time to get in the fields, but the soil conditions should determine our actions. After a long winter, most of us suffer from cabin fever and we want to get out and busy. This ...

To examine evolving farmer perspectives on soil compaction, the 2025 Farm Poll survey included questions previously used in the 2013 Farm Poll, allowing researchers to compare responses over time.

This year in South Dakota many areas have received high amounts of rainfall during the summer. This has led to portions of fields being wet particularly in the northeastern part of the state. Soils ...