WEST PORT, Minn. — Spring 2025 goes down as one of the windiest on record for large portions of the country from Minnesota to Florida and from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Washington, D.C. About half ...

Hughes, a UMN Extension educator that specializes in tillage, soil compaction and soil health joined UMN Extension crops educator Angie Peltier to talk about soil compaction: ...

Improving soil health on farms can have enormous climate benefits and make farms less vulnerable. That was the focus in a recent roundtable moderated by Heidi Roop, assistant professor and extension ...

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — On the prairie bluffs south of the Minnesota River near this southwestern Minnesota farm town, Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz grow crops and livestock — and soil. Rather than ...

Researchers have identified a key source of greenhouse gases in Minnesota, and now they have to figure out where it is — and what to do about it. The culprit? The state's soggy, carbon-packed peat ...