Soil inoculants for beans and corn can provide positive improvements for the health of your row crops. You can determine which corn and soybean inoculant is best suited to your needs by learning more ...

Alfalfa, also known in Latin as Medicago sativa, is an agricultural crop that is part of the legume family. It is known as a protein-rich food source for dairy cattle that is easily digested and can ...

Paulo Pagliari and other researchers at the University of Minnesota are trying to see if a bacteria can be used to reduce the amount of nitrogen needed to grow crops. Reducing nitrogen is important to ...

Cover crops are extremely important soil food web tools. Anyone listening to the “Teaming With Microbes” podcasts knows I am into them. Depending on which you use, these plants are capable of breaking ...

Although soybeans generally supply up to 90% of their own nitrogen needs through their beneficial relationship with Rhizobium bacteria 1 and via the soil 2, there are several factors that can limit ...

Legumes are used in crop rotations by both large-scale and smallholder farmers alike to increase soil fertility, especially before high-nitrogen-demanding crops such as corn (maize). Legume crop ...

Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria is the winner of the 2025 World Food Prize for her work with biological seed and soil treatments. Hungria's research enables crops to utilize soil bacteria ...