A silt fence differs from typical types of fences. It's a temporary barrier employed at construction sites for erosion control, to "retain the soil in disturbed land," according to Environmental ...

For plants, soil is the great provider — their source for moisture and nutrients. See why topsoil is tops for your garden ...

Dirt is what’s tracked onto your kitchen floor. Soil is what plants grow in. Having gardened on both Sutherland clay and ...

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 ...

Hurricane Helene caused great devastation throughout much of Western North Carolina and farm fields were not spared. There ...

Ask your children to consider why this might be? Many soils are a combination of sand, clay, chalk and may have silt or peat or lime within it. Each soil type, has a set of characteristics that ...

This soil from Iowa is dark due to high organic matter content; combined with high plant-available, water-holding capacity due to a high silt concentration. Soils with these characteristics are ...

LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Some Lima City School students got their hands a little dirty on Friday, all for the love of science.

According to Mark Conrardy, sales engineering manager at Wacker Corp., soil can be broken down into four basic groups: clay, silt, sand and gravel. "The most important characteristic is particle ...

including soil pH, texture (amount of sand, silt and clay), structure, and amount of organic matter. In addition to soil variables the crops or plants to be grown influence the amount of lime needed.

Think of flood prevention and you might imagine huge concrete dams, levees or the shiny Thames barrier. But some of the most ...

Soil assessments for damage to fields inflicted by Hurricane Helene is being encouraged by North Carolina agriculture leaders ...