National Resources Inventory

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.