The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).
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Modern Farmer
JANUARY 28, 2025
But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. By creating tunnels, theyre also creating a thermal refuge, said Hila Shamon, the director of the Smithsonians Great Plains Science Program and principal investigator of the colony-mapping project.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JUNE 1, 2023
As climate change intensifies, people are “panicking,” said Kristen Davis, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth system science at University of California, Irvine. coast, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. And we have to allow time for science to catch up.”
Daily Yonder
MARCH 4, 2024
They have to work outside jobs to get health insurance; when they come home, they must feed the animals, repair the fences, help a cow give birth and plow the fields. “It’s The increasing cost of health care has limited the ability of some U.S. farmers and ranchers across the U.S.
CalCAN
APRIL 6, 2023
The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JULY 13, 2023
Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. 28, 2019. “It
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