Sagamore Soils

5 Secrets Your Contractor Doesn’t Want You to Know

You think of your general contractor as an ally and partner — but he’s a primarily a businessman who may not reveal all his secrets.

Principles of healthy soil include diversity, organic matter

Healthy soils reduce water run-off and soil erosion, improve water-holding capacity, maintain soil temperature, have better crop/forage production, increased nutrients, and require fewer inputs so use less oil and gas

Turns Out the World Has What it Takes to Save Our Soils

The world’s eroding soils might only give us 60 more harvests. Thankfully, farmers already hold the key to saving our soils and food supply.

How to Test Soil for Farming

By: Meaghan Malinowski, MidAtlantic Farm Credit Just as it is important to test your livestock for disease, it is also in your best interest as a farmer to test your soil before fertilizing and pla…

Healthy Soils Help Weather the Drought

While few Midwest farmers envy their California counterparts, there are lessons to be learned from farmers attempting to grow crops in drought-ridden California. One key insight is the importance of soil health.

Soil and Your Foundation

Expansive soils cause foundation damage. Learn more.

15 Organizations Improving Soils and Saving the Climate

Healthy soils do more than grow healthy crops — they can also trap carbon, helping to combat climate change.

Are your soils compacted?

If your soils are frozen and hard as a rock, this may not be in the cards for you just yet. But, if your temperatures are around the freezing mark, one way to stave off winter cabin fever and improve your crop potential this coming spring may be to get out

3 Natural Soil Boosters

Adding a few organic materials to your soil can improve the nutrient issues and turn a brown gardening thumb green. Here are few natural soil boosters.

The Garden Decoder: Should You Get a 'Soil Test'?

Gardening is a lot like parenting. You can follow directions and advice (from this website or that book or some expert) all you want.

Soils Matter, Get the Scoop!

Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan ag soils

New research could help claypan farmers improve yields while saving costs.

10 Books to Celebrate the International Year of Soils

Dive into one of these recommended books and help spread the word about the importance of protecting our planet's soils.

Hi-tech fixes aren’t the only way to save our soil

Letter: We should investigate innovative solutions, but not at the expense of tried-and-tested methods of farming, writes Alan Mitcham

What are canopy soils?

Soils are part of our daily life: from the food we eat to the home we live in. We are most familiar with the soils under our feet. But, did you know that researchers have also found soils in the tr…

'Climate-smart soils' may help balance the carbon budget

While farm soil grows the world's food and fiber, scientists are examining ways to use it to sequester carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. But here's the scientific dirt: Soil can help reduce global warming.