Cover crops provide an often-overlooked reduction in soil carbon erosion, study finds
Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...
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State moves to slash cover crop funds despite rising demand
Illinois farmers like Steve Stierwalt adopt cover crops to address soil erosion and reduce runoff pollution, protecting ...
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Soil erosion control
Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...
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Nationalism and Soil Erosion
A STRIKING connexion between physical geography and economic policy is outlined by Prof. C. F. Shaw in the Geographical Review for January. He points out that the upland soils of much of Great ...
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Soil erosion controls on biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen.
The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...