Iowa Daily Erosion Project

Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt

April 15, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
commodity programs, conservation compliance, Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP, farmland conservation, Iowa Daily Erosion Project, NRCS, soil conservation, soil erosion, USDA

Here’s the bad news: it turns out the USDA’s estimates that soil erosion rates are under control across the Corn Belt—something we reported in this blog last June—are probably overly optimistic, according…