by Admin | Oct 16, 2023 | LTAR News
Our climate is ever-changing, and the stress these conditions are placing on our crops is tremendous. Drought, increasing rainfall, and extreme weather conditions are adversely affecting the health of our soil as well as the hydrological cycle. In order to study... by Admin | Oct 16, 2023 | LTAR News
This year’s monsoon season was the ultimate “non-soon” with less than a quarter inch of rain recorded at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and very little rain throughout the rest of Arizona. This follows a summer in which we saw record rainfall throughout the... by Admin | Oct 16, 2023 | LTAR News
Long-term sustainability of soils is one of the critical challenges facing humanity. Soil erosion is a natural landscape process, which if accelerated can threaten natural ecosystems and agriculture through loss of productivity, sedimentation, and associated... by Admin | Jan 4, 2023 | LTAR News
As much water as there is in the world, only about one-half of 1% of it is drinkable. To illustrate, if the world’s water supply was condensed to 26 gallons (about 100 liters), fresh water would amount to only one-half of a teaspoon. What’s worse, that half-teaspoon... by Admin | Dec 8, 2022 | LTAR News
LTAR mentioned in the 2023 Farm Bill…”The LTAR network operates by coordinating research across sites to better understand how agroecosystems function at the field, regional, and national scales, managing information by making data available to the public,...
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