Saving Our Soil: How to Extend U.S. Breadbasket Fertility for Centuries

ENN
May 25, 2023, 6:25 pm176 pts
The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines, is still 25 times higher than the rate at which topsoil forms.

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