Soil Health

See experimental grasses and meet the scientists testing how they stand up to heavy wear, pollution, and extreme conditions.

Seeking new tools to improve soil health, scientists at Washington State University are studying electric signals that bounce between plants and the underworld community of microbes that sustains them. This spring, a cross-disciplinary team of WSU engineers and crop scientists will sink electrodes into Washington wheat fields, as well as in soil-filled containers in the […]

Kirsten Ball, a post-doctoral researcher with WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR), is working to understand the short- and long-term potential for organic amendments to improve carbon storage in soils of agricultural systems.

Latest guides explain how to protect tree fruit crops, gauge soil health, and deploy ladybugs in the garden.

The Washington State Soil Health Initiative, with support from Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), hosts SoilCon 2023, Feb. 14-15.

Lynne Carpenter-Boggs received the Advocate of the Year Award at the Tilth Conference late last year.

A recent visit from Australian professor Michael Walsh demonstrates that the key to helping WSU weed science researchers battle herbicide resistance could come from Down Under.

John Reganold, a WSU Regents Professor of Soil Science and Agroecology, is a recipient of the prestigious Organic Pioneer Award.

Four WSU graduate students recently earned acceptance into the prestigious Rockey FFAR Fellows Program.

Sharing discoveries in seed quality, new varieties, pests, and growing practices to help NW potatoes thrive