"Soil Erosion and Conservation" provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and ...

Veteran farmer Don Guinnip knows the value of conservation. Farming in the Wabash Valley near Marshall, Ill., the sixth-generation corn and soybean producer is accustomed to growing crops in what he ...

“The first office of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts (NASCD) was located in the Montgomery Building on N. Church Street from 1946 to 1947. Soil conservation, with its focus on ...

Do you know what “menace” Nebraska farmers are still battling? Soil erosion. Even after widespread adoption of no-till and other modern farming methods, soil erosion is still a big problem in many ...

Many McHenry County property owners have lost big chunks of land to stream-bank erosion, and the resulting silt is clogging waterways and harming aquatic life. But the McHenry County Soil and Water ...

GARRETSON, S.D. (KELO) — During wind storms, you may have seen lots of dust in the air. A majority of that dust was top soil off of fields. Farmers are experiencing two different types of erosion ...

In Indiana, 3.5 million acres of cropland are being farmed with a soil conserving practice called no-till, an increase of 2.2 million acres in in the past three years. An additional 4.8 million acres ...

Parts of Assam and Meghalaya are among zones in India that are prone to the greatest rainfall-driven soil erosion, said a study that provides a national-scale assessment of rainfall erosivity over ...

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