News Releases Archive

June 2016

• Protein in, ammonia out
• A “Fitbit” for plants?
• Keeping urban rainwater out of streams
• Rethinking stink about antibiotics in manure
• Helping satellites be right as rain
• Using biosolids to fix cities
• Peas and prosperity

May 2016

• Following tricky triclosan
• Genetic engineering report findings supported by Crop, Agronomy Societies
• City of second chance soils
• How does water move through soil?
• From broken to teaming with life
• Feeling the pulse of Africa
• New book on biochar published
• Keeping a pulse on the soil
• The master variable of soil science: pH
• Soil Science Society of America Wins 2016 Gold Circle Award for Excellence in Association Communications from ASAE

April 2016

• Quilting with soil
• Crop advances grow with protection
• Bringing nitrogen out to pasture
• Science of Industrial Hemp Conference Announced
• Soil microbes, soil health and nutrient availability
• How does your (school) garden grow?
• Downwind safety on the farm
• Kirkham Gold Medal Honors Soil Scientist van Genuchten
• Cool beans: beneficial faba braves a freeze
• Planting your new purchases

March 2016

• Laser reveals water’s secret life in soil
• Celebrate Soy Foods Month with Coolbean
• Digging a proper hole in the soil
• Lummis presented with 2016 SSSA Excellence Award
• Modeling to save a rare plant
• Sorghum: not so ho-hum
• Consider an organic approach to your lawn
• Battling the blight
• Journal publishes special section on antibiotics in agroecosystems
• Reduce, reuse, recycle: safe for water?
• From dead leaves to rich soil

February 2016

• New journal to focus on agricultural, environmental issues
• Potatoes wild with calcium
• Crop Science Society sending students to Zambia for conference
• The upstanding, outstanding pinto bean
• CCA program offers soil health seminar
• Garden plant residues can improve soil
• Tall Fescue and Fungal Endophyte Cooperation Varied
• Healing the soil
• Ag and food research funding supported
• Not your grandfather’s cotton
• Microbes alive in Antarctic soils, how can that be?

January 2016

• Andean bean: Small bean for sweet dreams
• Data-driven decisions on South Dakota land
• Winter Soils-Still Alive
• Ancient going on nouveau
• One crop, two ways, multiple benefits
• Indoor gardeners: Potting soil better than backyard soil

December 2015

• Bring in a healthy new year
• Plants, soils take to the streets
• 2016 Named International Year of Pulses
• Will grassland soil weather a change?
• How are soils used in cosmetics?
• Flushed resource restores ecosystem
• Fries with a side of acrylamide

November 2015

• Soils, culture and people
• Urban trees provide pollution solution
• How can soils help with climate change?
• Going native—for the soil?
• Mooving manure beyond drug-resistant bacteria
• Soils and climate: preventing desertification

October 2015

• Soils and climate
• Farming on Mars? The Martian raises questions about soil
• PhD comics author to present at agronomy, crop, soil meeting
• Learning from the wild
• Solar Corridor Cropping System concept to be explored at symposium
• Beavers take a chunk out of nitrogen in Northeast rivers
• The secret life of seeds
• Soil health and agronomic resiliency symposium planned
• Doubly green trees
• Soil research around the world topic of symposium
• American Society of Agronomy acknowledges World Food Prize
• Competition brings real-world challenges to agriculture students
• When “soil” isn’t soil
• Resisting rust in Texas
• Tour to showcase Upper Midwest organic agriculture
• International Year of Soils celebration to discuss soil on Mars
• Reconnecting with your food supply

September 2015

• Covering the bases with cover crops
• Soils and the products we use
• Could “The Martian’s” scientist survive on potatoes alone?
• Identifying common objectives helpful for crop wild relative researchers
• "Women in science: Breaking the bias habit" workshop planned
• Purple bran rice defies convention
• At the top in the pits
• Connecting phytobiomes with soil and plant health symposium planned
• Climate change symposium: urban soils overlooked as source for storing carbon
• Digging in deep
• How does soil differ across Earth’s biomes-Great Plains, Coastal Wetlands, Deserts
• Food supply chain topic of symposium
• Shifting gears in education
• Cotton and fiber symposium announced
• Fingerprinting erosion

August 2015

• Soils protect the natural environment
• Hypoallergenic parks: coming soon?
• S’no water in Sierra Nevadas
• Is it true that some medicines come from the soil?
• Fortified against blindness
• What does soil health have to do with my health?

July 2015

• Soils support health
• Just say ‘No’ to drugs – in water
• Benefits of strip-till surface after five-year study
• Breeding a better peanut butter
• Is it bad to have bacteria in soil?
• Probiotics - for plants
• The importance of soil-dwelling animals
• A tale of two (soil) cities

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