Geophagia is the medical term for craving and eating dirt of any kind, including earth, soil, or clay, something that has ...

As Texas fruit growers battle unpredictable chill hours and late spring freezes, a small, but growing, group is turning to lesser-known or “alternative” fruit crops in search of more resilient and ...

Farmers Albert and Frances Lundberg left Nebraska in 1937 during the Dust Bowl to start a new life in the Sacramento Valley.

The aim of this study was to evaluate how the clay mineralogy of a Ferralsol affects the soil K dynamics in response to K fertilization during cropping and whether the clay mineralogy was altered due ...

Indigenous communities in Ontario are saving wild rice — or manoomin — by growing it in clay soil to fight climate change.

When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens ...

After years exploiting clay, a company removed all machinery, ceased operations without land restitution, and declared ...

A project at at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new approach for identifying hazardous contaminants in soil samples. Described in PNAS, the technique could make it ...

In an era of unpredictable weather patterns, adaptability is key to success. As temperatures rise, rainfall becomes erratic, ...

Soil microstructural strength was greater in soils with higher clay and oxides content, and elasticity was greater in soils with higher clay content and expansive clay, while sandy soil (both ...

The alluvial soil is mostly found in the central portion of the ponds and tanks. Most of the water bodies have storage this time even in the midst of peak summer. Clay or alluvial soil cannot be ...