By 2050, we will need to feed almost 1.8 billion more people, when our global population reaches around 10 billion.

Take $5 million in federal money, add incentives for farmers to plant crops to soak up nitrates and you’ve got a program so ...

Farmers have been asked to take further measures to prevent soil erosion The Environment Agency has called on farmers in Devon and Cornwall to take action against soil erosion after pollution ...

A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year rotation involving corn, cereal rye, soybean and winter wheat, found that the three-year ...

Crop fertilizers are a major source of pollution, as the chemicals make their way out of the soil and into the natural environment. Scientists are now working on a possible solution to that ...

This unchecked human activity is altering the riverbed, leading to significant water pollution and riverbank erosion, while ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Industrial waste and farming practices have led to significant soil pollution in several areas ... published biennially by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, provides detailed ...