The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

ST. PAUL — Want to know more about your dirt? There’s an app for that. The soils smart phone application was developed by graduate students at the University of California-Davis and is now available ...

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications from higher education institutions to conduct soil science research and improve regional surveys. In a release, USDA said the ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — County soil surveys for years have been bound in large publications. The bound volumes still exist but the documents in their entirety also are now on compact discs available at the ...

DES MOINES | The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced soils information for Iowa landowners is updated and available for free online, via Web Soil Survey – the most widely ...

The department’s barebones SoilWeb app grew a following until app stores changed their rules in 2017. Now it’s back. Soil holds powerful insights about what America is made of and many people leverage ...

Soils come in many different colors, described by hue, value, and chroma (Munsell color system). Using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) online Web Soil Survey (WSS) to discover the ...

New research conducted at Iowa State University led to the successful creation of a detailed Quaternary geological map for the Des Moines Lobe with a user-controlled level of scale, with the results ...

Earth Team is the agency’s volunteer workforce and has donated 318,530 hours of service to NRCS NRCS New Jersey received assistance from 47 volunteers who donated more than 1,400 hours Earth Team is a ...