A soil map available online. POLK COUNTY, Ore. — Soil science has come a long way since Milton Whitney in 1899 began surveying soils in the tobacco lands of Connecticut. Whitney’s project to match ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

This calculator, or web app, is useful for farmers as well as gardeners. It uses soil pH (acidity level), buffer pH and applied lime rate to provide an estimated soil pH. Kendall Kirk, a precision ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...

So what’s the weather like? No – not here. The weather in this 10 foot square in the field two miles north from here? That type of granular data is probably overkill for most of us – but for farmers ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind., and WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Farmers could allocate resources more efficiently, improve seed placement and maximize profits by uploading site-specific information about the soil's ...

Building requirements in certain parts of the country include strict specs for type of soil used in site development. DE Storage found this out the hard way. Based in Delaware, the company has mini ...