Farmers Edge is opening its laboratory testing services up to the public, offering agribusinesses, retailers and farmers access to soil and plant tissue testing. With soil labs in the U.S. and Canada, ...

At first glance, soil sampling would seem to be a relatively easy task. However, when you consider the variability that likely exists within a field because of inherent soil formation factors and past ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander has measured, for the first time, the pH of martian soil, and it’s an alkaline 8 or 9, scientists announced yesterday at a press briefing. That’s a level habitable by a broad ...