EnvironmentA Freedom of Information answer shows the soil assessments, management plans and organic-matter tests paid for under the Sustainable Farming Incentive were not routinely gathered, a gap campaigners say cost England a national soil dataset.
AgrotechA USDA-funded project is collecting more than 13,000 soil samples from about 6,000 fields to rebuild the free SHAPE online tool so it gives farmers local soil-health benchmarks and practice recommendations.
CropsThe Weed Science Society of America says well-timed fall cover crops can suppress herbicide-resistant weeds and cut herbicide and nitrogen costs, if they build enough biomass.
AgrotechCU Boulder engineers have shown a cheap, battery-powered electronic sensor using the dye alizarin can monitor soil pH continuously across soil types, helping farmers spot problems before it is too late.
EnvironmentA Natural Resources Conservation Service cost-share pays for basic or advanced soil health tests, and a University of Missouri specialist urges farmers to use it and to sample consistently.
The agriculture department in Kurigram will distribute fertiliser in the coming Rabi season against a soil health protection card.
EnvironmentUniversity of Arkansas scientists found that soil health indicators shift markedly with the season and depth of sampling, and urge farmers to keep their sampling consistent.
The Wolfe family's 1,500-acre Fairfield County farm, run on no-till, strip-till and cover crops, has won an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
This aman and early-vegetable season Manikganj has 15,917 tonnes of urea, 5,470 of TSP, 12,201 of DAP and 7,202 of MOP allocated; sub-assistant agriculture officer Jesmin Jerin says organic matter has fallen below five per cent in many fields against the five to seven needed, and farmers are using m
AgrotechA low-cost electrochemical sensor using the dye alizarin gave continuous, stable pH readings across sandy, muddy, compacted and organic soils in a multi-month outdoor test, a study in Scientific Reports says.
CropsA new agriculture ministry document targets acidified red, lateritic and yellow soils with region-specific fertilisation, field improvement and monitoring, building on 2023 projects in 20 counties and the 15th Five-Year Plan's goal of 50 million tonnes more grain capacity.
LivestockIn the farmer-led Catch the Rain project funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand and led by Quorum Sense, extending pasture recovery from a standard 30 days to 60-90-plus days almost doubled water infiltration within nine months on three farms; a fish-hydrolysate biostimulant lifted it by about a third, w
The ninth CTIC/SARE/ASTA survey, released 1 September at the Farm Progress Show from 657 farmers in 46 states, finds average cover-crop acreage of 397.9, a 3.5 bu/ac corn and 1.4 bu/ac soybean yield gain after covers, one in three users grazing them, 16.3% using drones, and 81.6% of farmers paid an
