State-of-the-art facilities are housed in the Agricultural and Life Sciences Building. Facilities and equipment available to Soil Science students include:

• Laboratory facilities for conventional physical, chemical and biological analyses of soil, plant, and water samples
• USDA Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Forage Seed Production Research Center, Forest Service Laboratory, and EPA Terrestrial Ecosystems Laboratory
• Up-to-date atomic absorption, spectrophotometer, autoanalyzer, and Kjeldahl digestion equipment
• Several gas chromatographs, ion chromatograph, CNS analyzer, and mass spectrometer
• Equipment for water retention and non-destructive measurement of water content
• Freeze drying, X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, and petrographic microscopes for mineral analyses
• Standard soil microbiology and molecular biology equipment
• Computers for data analysis, modeling, and word processing
• Computers, digitizers, plotters, and software for studies involving geographic information systems
• Ready access to transmission and scanning electron microscopes, X-ray diffraction, and radioisotope facilities
• Convenient contemporary library facilities
• Growth chambers, greenhouses, and field experimental areas