conservation

Rolling Our Land To Death

June 8, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
conservation, corn, crop insurance, Farm Bill, land rollers, Land Stewardship Project, row crops, Senate Farm Bill, soil erosion, soybeans, stewardship, tillage

I sat in a farmhouse one afternoon last month as a hot wind lifted rich topsoil from surrounding fields. On the drive in, I’d noticed a surprising amount of rill erosion on…
Erosion Down—Fingers Crossed

June 17, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
conservation, corn prices, cropland, CRP, farmland, land, National Resources Inventory, NRCS, NRI, soil erosion

The federal government’s latest assessment of how much soil is being washed and blown off our farmland contains some good news: between 1982 and 2007, erosion dropped 43 percent nationally.