USDA Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

She eventually got her degree in agriculture from Prairie View A&M University with a concentration in plant and soil science. With that seed of interest planted, she took agriculture classes throughout high school, grew and maintained her garden, showed livestock, and cross-bred tomatoes.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Peanut Research and Education Society presents retired University of Georgia professor of crop physiology, crop and soil sciences with the organization's highest award.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 3, 2024

Benjamin Nowak, a “French lecturer in agronomy with teaching and research activities focused on soil sciences and remote sensing for crop monitoring” has a nice infographic showing “ what a large farm would look like, growing all the world’s crops.” ” Pretty cool. But where’s all the ganja?

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Assumes average corn yields in the 1920s of roughly 26 bu/A (according to the Plant & Soil Sciences eLibrary at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ) and average corn yield in 2023 of roughly 183 bu/A (according to USDA data ) and yields on Pioneer corn hybrids commonly reaching 200 bu/A and more.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

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USDA Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Felipe Aburto is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, where he focuses on soil science and its impact on agriculture and the environment. These fields are essential in addressing todays agricultural challenges, particularly the need for increased diversity and awareness of soil science among students.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Powerful Quotes From Recent Discussions “The soil health in a place determines the health of the people that live there. The soil health is a perfect mirror of the people. Solidarity in climate finance gives us the power to address food insecurity and enhance peace, security, and development.” — H.E.

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Agric4profits

APRIL 19, 2025

With the flexibility of an online program, students can explore a wide range of topics from soil science, business management and economics, to animal science and… Read More » Online Agriculture Associate Degrees

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl.

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

James Winery Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation Synergistic Hawaii Agriculture Council The Breakthrough Institute The Good Food Institute Turfgrass Producers International U.S.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Laying to rest the concept of humus and instead embracing the diversity that actually exists in the soil opens up so much scope for exploration and understanding. This is an exciting time in the world of soil science, with new technologies making research possible that never was before.

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Agwired

JANUARY 8, 2024

Camp Hand, University of Georgia assistant professor in Crop & Soil Sciences, received this annual award for his leadership, dedication and exceptional service in developing and conducting educational programs to meet the needs of cotton producers and the U.S. cotton industry.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal. He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Joel Gruver, a professor of soil science and sustainable agriculture at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, has been chosen to receive the 2024 Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from Practical Farmers of Iowa.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

First-year results were unveiled this week by UIUC graduate student Darby Danzl at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting , held jointly by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(Photo courtesy Schreiner) “We have created a template for a tribal farm, which operates very differently than a standard non-Native farm,” explains Schreiner, who has a background in natural resource management, soil science, and water conservation. “We

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Mingchu Zhang, professor of soil science and agronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, cautions in an email about infectious organisms in dog poop that might survive composting. “That is perhaps why most cities prohibit it.”

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Soil health specialist Catie Geib has joined the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a 41-year-old conservation agriculture non-profit, to provide technical support to Wisconsin farmers under the Farmers for Soil Health (FSH) program.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Caff

MARCH 28, 2022

CAFF does that for farmers– it sees and describes trends in soil science and productivity, it helps farms find new sales outlets, it makes the importance of both food safety and food security prominent in its work, and it provides financial assistance to small family farms.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Chris Tolles , CEO & Co-Founder , YARD STICK: “ Over the past year, our primary successes have been achievements in our research and development performance and advancing the core science of our technology. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal.

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Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (TNAU, Coimbatore INDIA) Hi, this is Dr. Marco Thiruselvam with Green Wave Products and I am going to talk about growing tips with AgriPOWER HGDF. Marco Thiruselvam B.M.E. University Malaya, Malaysia); BMM (JAMA, Japan); Ph.D.,

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agricultural engineers must be skilled in soil science, physics and chemistry as well as computer modeling techniques. They may also be involved in planning and implementing food processing facilities, ensuring that crops meet certain chemical requirements, or developing new technologies for farming equipment.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Our hope is that as we work together, and your role evolves over time, we can adjust your job description accordingly.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

Sincerely, 2Blades agInnovation North Central Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Agricultural Utilization Research Institute American Association of Mycobacterial Diseases American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges American Institute of Biological Sciences American Malting Barley Association American Meat Science Association (..)

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

Sincerely, 2Blades agInnovation North Central Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Agricultural Utilization Research Institute American Association of Mycobacterial Diseases American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges American Institute of Biological Sciences American Malting Barley Association American Meat Science Association (..)

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis In this week’s Field Report, news on the agency’s latest effort to invest in soil science and correct discrimination, plus reports on global hunger and pesticides’ impacts on birds.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. His personal research focus led him to several countries in South America, including Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, to visit with and learn from a network of farmers practicing no-till agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

—Grey Moran Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán By Chelsea Fisher Set in the Mexican state of Yucatán, the homeland of the Maya people, Rooting in a Useless Land by anthropologist Chelsea Fisher tells a complex story of competing narratives involving history, colonialism, sustainability, (..)

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 16, 2025

Tomandls cows spend their days rotating between different pastures of perennial grasses, an approach that greatly reduces his feed costs while also building organic matter in the soil to help fight climate change. full_link READ MORE Why are restaurants selling beef from dairy cows? Photography via Shutterstock.

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