As extreme heat and drought conditions impacts nearly all of Utah, a seventh-generation family farm in Spanish Fork is ...

After a fall harvest and before the spring planting season, soil is typically cultivated so it can become more fertile and welcoming for plant growth. All farmers practice at least one type of tillage ...

For decades, conservation has depended on a deceptively simple act: counting. Scientists tally birds along migration routes, ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

A new program that promotes land conservation efforts through training sessions for female landowners will have its first three events this fall. The Women Landowners Leading Regeneration project is ...

Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

Soil preparation methods in U.S. agriculture reached a watershed in 1997. Nationally, conservation tillage acres outstripped conventional acres for the first time ever last season, with 37.3% of the ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Conservation has never lacked ideas. Protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, community management, certification schemes, and public campaigns have all been promoted as ...

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