The first phase of the BASF-IRRI collaboration launched in 2024 showed that alternate wetting and drying, enabled through direct-seeded rice, cuts methane and water use without losing yield; the next phase looks at soil carbon and nitrogen and at biochar, with Philippine trials meant to inform China
Nicole Parnell is comparing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under sheep-and-beef, sheep-only and ungrazed areas of Mount Grand Station in Central Otago to learn how grazing and invading exotic grasses change the below-ground networks that supply nutrients and water and stabilise soil.
Applied at about 4 fluid ounces an acre, the soil conditioner cuts water's surface tension so it spreads and penetrates dense soils; lab tests on Californian soils showed lower density and better infiltration, and the company reports 10-15% potato yield gains when it is combined with its microbial p
A Natural Resources Conservation Service soil health specialist argues that the yield penalty farmers once suffered when switching to no-till is far less likely today, provided the soil's biology is rebuilt before the change.
Long-term Iowa State University trials found no soybean yield difference between tillage systems, and the university's checklist asks farmers to name the problem tillage will solve before they start.
CapChar's integrated system turns local woodchip into biochar for cattle bedding, banks the pyrolysis heat in a patent-pending thermal battery for drying fuel wood, and measures the carbon removed, about 250 t CO2e expected from the 80-hectare South Downs livestock farm.
President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged farmers and farm institutions to curb the indiscriminate use of chemical fertiliser and pesticide, warning of long-term damage to soil, environment and public health.
Receiving a delegation from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on agricultural universities and extension services to work together to make farmers aware.
Don Hammersmith of Defiance County went from no-till for lack of time to diverse cover-crop mixes, poultry litter and precise nutrient rates, and now finds a worm in almost every spadeful, earning the new small-farm category of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
At the first meeting of the 13th parliament's standing committee on agriculture, the minister set out plans to cut import dependence and export farm produce, protect soil health, implement the 2026 fertiliser-dealer policy, open flower and soil research centres at Gadkhali, expand cotton, maize, swe
Practical Farmers of Iowa tracked suitable fieldwork days on 38 farms in four states in 2025: on average they matched USDA's figures, but fields with a decade of cover crops showed wider spring windows as Iowa loses one spring workday every six years.
On three hectares where a juice factory dumped its waste, tree biomass rose 176 per cent and the soil grew richer; the Princeton study suggests farm and food-industry waste can restore forest.
Vegetable growers working with WASSAN in Andhra Pradesh's dry Rayalaseema are rebuilding the habitat that pollinators, spiders, ladybirds and soil fungi need, zinnia strips along fields, companion crops, staggered planting, farm ponds, trees on bunds and cloth ground cover that keeps soil cool and
