The Canadian prairie region is one of the world's "bread baskets", with over 46 million hectares of arable land. Organic crop production is a rapidly growing enterprise with over 1100 certified ...

Researchers create a global map ... two zones is very abrupt. "It only takes a small change in climate to achieve the switch from that acid zone to the alkaline zone and there are fewer soils ...

Scientists have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in prairie soils that had little or no exposure to human or animal activity. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found ...

To fix a damaged ecosystem you need to start from the ground up – with the microbes that live in the soil. The first step in that direction has been taken for the tallgrass prairies of the US ...