About three dozen people went to the Clay County Fair and Events Center in Spencer on Thursday for the first Northwest Iowa ...

Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

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Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

(This is the first in a series of stories written about how soil conservation districts in the region view the drought of 2021. This installment was written and edited by the Mitchell Republic.) ...

Most of us weren’t around to see the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But a mixture of drought and poor farming practices saw the topsoil of a half dozen states stripped away. Picture the dusty and desolate ...

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On May 16, a rare dust storm pushed across northern Illinois, northern Indiana and the Chicago metropolitan area. Pictured here is the storm approaching Bloomington, Illinois. Soil and Water ...

Ethiopia’s conventional agricultural systems are under pressure from multiple challenges, including food insecurity, unsustainable farming methods, and the ...