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, ...

"We have scaled down the lab equipment to a cylinder 25 centimeters in diameter that can be buried in the soil, allowing continuous imaging of the surrounding soil environment," explains Ph.D. student ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.