“You need to water the lawn so that the soil becomes moist down to at least the four-inch depth when you water,” Kemery said. “If you water less than that, you’re not doing a whole lot of good, and ...

To help my students get exceptional results from their gardens, I teach them to build soil health with regular additions of ...

A global leader in the research and development of precision irrigation systems, Irritec offers innovative solutions focused ...

Leaf Monitor, a new mobile tool backed by artificial intelligence and predictive modeling, could revolutionize how farmers ...

Fall is the perfect time to fertilize your lawn. In many regions, autumn is when abundant rainfall and cool weather inspire your lawn to redirect its energy to root development, rather than grass ...

Samuel Mugo is a co-founder of PimaSens. He receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Mohammed Elmorsy is a co-founder of PimaSens. He has received ...

Surging costs for key crop nutrients that growers need could spur sharp cutbacks in fertilizer use. Prices are climbing for phosphate, crucial for plant growth, amid fear that an already difficult ...

Ph.D. student Parastoo Farajpoor and Digital Agriculture Laboratory Director Alireza Pourreza using the Leaf Monitor tool in a Bullseye Farms almond orchard near Davis. The AI-based tool can measure ...

Scientists show that nanoscale selenium can reduce fertilizer use by 30%, improve rice nutrition, and lower greenhouse gases. (Nanowerk News) The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 ...

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs. This may be about to change, thanks to ...

With the end of summer drawing near and hopefully bringing cooler temperatures and needed precipitation, we can help our lawns.

A research team from Stanford University has developed a prototype that uses solar energy to extract nutrients from human urine to create a sustainable fertilizer. They presented the system in ...