Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
![Two children building a stick structure in the woods](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/markus-spiske-1S0-pHmQ-TY-unsplash-1-1.jpg)
Outdoor Play: At Your Doorstep
![Cotton field with the sun shining](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CALS.cotton.6093.jpg)
Decision Tools Bolster Cotton Picks
![A group of students in a corn field as the sun sets. (From Summer 2019)](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CornFieldWork.jpg)
CALS Researchers Return to the Bench and Field
![A small white box on PVC pipe poles over plots of soybeans in sandy soil.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/StressCamSoybeans2.jpg)
Low-Cost Cameras Could Be Sensors to Remotely Monitor Crop Stress
![A young woman in a strawberry field with a bucket of strawberries](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pace-farm-wp.jpg)
A Change of Pace
![Many reaches toward plants being grown under LED lights in an indoor farm.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mark-Watson.jpg)
Growing Upward
![A corn field in North Carolina](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Corn_Field.jpg)
Faculty Focus: Holland Wins International Maize Genetics Award
![A woman on a large blue tractor.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mary-grace-wp.jpg)
Mary Grace Phillips: COVID-19 Frontline Worker and Full-Time Student
![Two people work on turfgrass](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sml-turf-wp.jpg)
University Scientists Grow Water Savings with Drought-Tolerant Turfgrass
![A videographer records a scientist discussing agricultural research at a field plot.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/angela-post-at-the-2020-virtual-small-grains-field-day.jpg)