Producers spot healthy soil through diverse ground cover, beneficial insects, earthworms and lab tests measuring microbial ...

If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

If you are on a farm and scoop up a handful of soil, chances are what you hold in your palm isn’t very healthy. The United Nations estimates that 40% of topsoil worldwide is moderately or severely ...

Doug Steffen creates compost extracts from native microorganisms to treat seeds and soil, reducing inputs while improving ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to ...

Mariangela Hungria won the 2025 World Food Prize for her work on microbes that feed plants nitrogen, allowing farmers to ...

A coating that protects nitrogen-fixing bacteria from heat and humidity would make them easier to use in place of agricultural chemicals. Chemical fertilizers have significant drawbacks: producing ...

Lucy M. Stitzer is the founder and editor of Dirt-To-Dinner. Its mission is to help consumers better understand how their food is grown and processed, and why this is important to them and their ...

Impacts of biological amendments, including waste-derived amendments that underpin soil health and agricultural ...

Not all microbes are villains—many are vital to keeping us healthy. Researchers have created a world-first database that ...