Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon ...

All Pennsylvania farmers are required to have an Erosion and Sediment Control plan on file and put it into practice, unless ...

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, ...

The system is based on four key principles: no burning, no tillage, permanent soil cover and efficient use of fertilizer. It has reduced erosion and improved crop yields and quality of life for ...

Spain has the highest rates of soil degradation in Europe, with an average of 14.2 tonnes of soil lost per hectare to erosion each year ... which types of cover crop to plant; or when to till ...

Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, ...