The fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded,” that examines the nation's conservation delivery system and ...

Using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) online Web Soil Survey (WSS) to discover the types of soil around their home and to explore limitations of the soils.

While dairy farmers may be considering sustainability-focused solutions such as cover cropping, conservation tillage, and ...

Soil conservation has always been the foundation of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which for nearly 60 years was ...

Global map of soil moisture regimes. Developed by USDA-NRCS, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources, Washington, DC.

The National Cooperative Soil Survey identifies the following permeability classes based on soil texture (Table 1). These classes can be modified (qualitatively) by the degree of soil structure.