Data show certain farming practices can have serious unintended health consequences. When produced in harmony with nature, ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) is partnering with the Boone County Soil and Water Conservation District an ...

Illinois soil and water conservation districts were allocated just $4.5 million for their operations in the budget year that ...

In this season, I’m visiting CRP sites to evaluate the contracted plantings. Sometimes it allows me to savor views of hidden ...

Soil moisture can also vary widely within a single watershed, so often multiple stations are required to give experts a clear picture that can help inform flooding predictions.

This is because watersheds in these regions typically have shallow, clay-rich soils and limited water storage capacity. Due to lower precipitation and higher evaporation rates, soil moisture is ...

When too much rain falls for the ground to absorb, it runs downhill, pulled by gravity into streams, creeks and rivers.

By combining atmospheric river forecast information with knowledge of how close the soil moisture is to critical saturation levels for a given watershed, we can further improve flood early warning ...

The research, published June 4 in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, analyzed more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms across 122 watersheds on the West Coast between 1980 and 2023. The researchers ...

Discover how Pennsylvania Farm Bureau President Chris Hoffman uses science, technology, and care to raise healthy livestock, ...

This spring marks the 90th anniversary of the federal agency that was born out of that ecological disaster, what’s now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Yet after nine decades, the ...