CropsThe second edition of Cover Crops: Improving Soil Health, Stewardship and Profitability on the Farm adds new chapters and the experience of 12 farmers, and can be read free online.
CropsAt the Rabi Campaign 2026 conference, India's agriculture minister announced a 'Khet Bachao Abhiyan' soil campaign from 22 October, over Rs 1,200 crore for ten states and monthly Centre-state reviews.
CropsThe National Cover Crop Variety Testing Program compared commercial varieties of six fall-planted cover crops across 13 US sites; at the New York site cereal rye ND Gardner gave the most spring biomass.
OpinionWriting in Channel i Online, Jebunnesa Chapala argues that over-extraction of minerals, filled-in water bodies and plastic and industrial waste are leaving soil dead and barren, and that land-based education is now essential.
CropsA University of Missouri study of soil samples kept since 1888 finds average sulfur levels fell from 807 to 232 pounds per acre, and says growers can no longer count on the air to supply it.
CropsResearchers from Sultan Qaboos University, the James Hutton Institute and others refined a method to measure DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, a window on the biologically active part of the phosphorus cycle.
EnvironmentAn analysis of 422 studies found reduced and zero tillage the most reliable conservation practices for lowering greenhouse gases, while mulching and fertiliser strategies gave mixed results depending on climate and soil.
EnvironmentAmanda and Adrian Currie, accountants who bought a 750-hectare sheep and beef farm in 2012, now spray home-bred microbes, rest paddocks and use dung beetles instead of buying fertiliser.
The Advancing Markets for Producers money from NRCS will go out as direct grants of $20,000 to $300,000 to help growers sell crops raised with soil-health practices.
OrganicThe grain trader's fourth annual report says its 2025 programmes across 11 countries and 10 crops cut about 946,000 tonnes of CO2e against regional benchmarks.
OrganicSolidaridad says 50 to 60 Indian tea gardens, 10 in the south, have joined, and that cotton farmers in Maharashtra under the scheme saw yields rise 10-20%.
AgribusinessInterviews with 15 businesses that grow food on salt-affected land, from halophyte farms to salt-tolerant seed and desalination firms, find weak demand rather than money holding the sector back.
EnvironmentSix producer groups told Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that its national soil health strategy needs farmer-led research, regional metrics and room for small and unconventional farms.
